Fight CRC partners with Imerman Angels to help you find peer-to-peer support. If you’re looking to connect to someone who has “been there,” this program can help you find a match. Patients and caregivers can request to be paired up with someone to help them process the physical, mental, and emotional impact of colorectal cancer.

Looking for a mentor? Or looking to volunteer and give back by helping someone else through what you’ve faced? Consider signing up to be a mentor.

Several of our partners offer ongoing support groups for colorectal cancer patients and caregivers. Support groups can help you connect with others who “get it,” either in person and/or online, and help take away the stigma of what you’re facing.

We’ve formed official partnerships with the following organizations:

Cancer Support Community/Gilda’s Club
Man up to Cancer
力量
Bright Spot Network (for patients/caregivers raising young children while facing cancer)
科伦镇 (Not official support groups, but a great way to meet others)

Young adults facing colorectal cancer experience unique challenges. Young adults’ lives are typically focused on learning to live independently, establish a career, and start a family. A colorectal cancer diagnosis is not only disruptive, but it’s life-altering.

We offer education and support for young adults facing colorectal cancer, and The Colon Club is a community for anyone who has been impacted by adolescent and young adult colorectal cancer (AYA), which is typically those ages 15-39.

We provide a safe space for members of the LGBTQIA+ community to find resources, connect, and share stories. In our community, allies and queer patients and survivors come together to support one another.

Caregivers need support, just as much if not more than patients. While all of our resources and events are open and available to caregivers, we recognize caregivers face unique needs for connection and support.

Balancing being a colorectal cancer patient or caregiver with parenting a child or teen can be very challenging. Our community is here to support parents and we’ve established several partnerships and programs geared toward the family.

When in doubt, if you’re facing a physical or medical emergency, call 911 and your doctor’s office, and visit the nearest emergency room.

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) offers 24/7 call, text and chat access to trained crisis counselors who can help people experiencing suicidal thoughts, substance abuse, a mental health crisis, or any other kind of emotional distress. People can also dial 988 if they are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support.

This United Way hotline can be used if you’re in need of local resources for food, housing and more.