The MSDBC Board members and volunteer staff are pleased to present our
first Mother Volunteer
Newsletter. Initially we will be creating a semi-annual newsletter with
the goal by next
year to be able to provide a quarterly issue. Information contained in
this newsletter will
provide mother volunteers with information related to the following
topics:* Updated list of who our mother volunteers are and where they live * Latest information in the research areas for diagnosing and treating breast cancer * MSDBC activities * Breast Cancer information and resources * Other topics of interest identified by our volunteer team and women served by MSDBC We welcome your feedback and suggestions on the type of information you, our mother volunteers, want to see included in this newsletter. So feel free to contact us and let us know!! Thanks, MSDBC Board  
Last year, when we conducted our annual fund drive, we wrote to mothers
who MSDBC has provided
support to in the past, inquiring of their potential interest in
becoming mother volunteers
for this national non-profit organization. We were very pleased with
the response and are
continuing to actively recruit more mothers who have traveled on the
journey with their
daughters through their breast cancer treatment. Some mothers are
"specialized" in providing
support for specific types of treatment, such as bone marrow
transplant. We also have
mothers who have been forced to experience losing their daughter to this
disease; they help
us with bereavement for other moms faced with the same
nightmare.On the following page is a list of the current roster of mother volunteers and where they are geographically located in the US. We do our best to "match" mothers with a mother whose daughter is close in age, stage of disease and treatment plan whenever possible. All mothers (and their daughters) who contact MSDBC are provided free literature about the "Mothers Supporting Mothers" program, the Mother's handbook and Daughter's companion brochure, and are given access to additional resources and information depending on their needs. The mother volunteers are listed by state below. If you know of a mother who is interested in joining our special volunteer team, please let us know! |
| Arizona: |
Ms. Shirley Mueller Ms. Ruth Kolb Smith |
| Arkansas: | Mrs. Edwin (Garnett) Graf |
| Colorado: | Ms. Marcia Touslee |
| Delaware: | Ms. Cheryl Conaway-Stevens |
| Florida: | Ms. Elaine M. Fernandez Ms. Jeanne Costa |
| Georgia: | Ms. Dorothy Elway |
| Illinois: | Mrs. Lois Letner |
| Iowa: | Ms. Barnadine Cabeen |
| Kentucky: | Ms. Patti Rayburn |
| Maryland: | Mrs. Frank (Bunny) Adams Mrs. Frank (Charmayne) Dierker** Ms. Donna Hudson Ms. Nancy Wantz |
| Missouri: | Mrs. Marvin (Judy) Newman Mrs. Mary Jane Shafferkoetter |
| New York: | Ms. Joyce Conners Ms. Linda Knoebel Ms. Josephine LaPadura Ms. Dorothy Moore Ms. Jean Rudy |
| Oklahoma: | Mrs. Lucille Norris |
| Pennsylvania: |
Ms. Mary Anne Meeker Ms. Nancy Moffatt Ms. May K. Young |
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MSDBC was co-founded by Charmayne Dierker and Lillie Shockney in March
1995 and is now a national non-profit organization serving all states in
the US as well as several international countries. All staff of this
organization are volunteers and all money raised for support of this
organization's work is 100% invested in accomplishing their mission and
goals. This organization emerged as the outcome of a mother's personal experience when she had difficulty coping with her daughter's diagnosis of breast cancer. This organization helps provide mothers various ways to support daughters during each phase of treatment and recovery, enabling mothers to provide emotional, physical, and spiritual support as needed and desired by their daughter. It also provides information to mothers and daughters to help them communicate with one another during a time of high stress in their lives. It doesn't matter how old the mother or daughter is, where they live, or what their relationship has been in the past. The mission is to help them help one another now... 
*to provide basic medical information about breast cancer as a disease and the various treatments that patients may receive. There is power in information and by having information the patient's mother is better prepared about what to expect and how to help her daughter and herself cope with each phase of care. *to provide a local, regional and national communication network for mothers and daughters to communicate with and receive support from other mothers and daughters who are also currently experiencing or have experienced in the past the impact that breast cancer has on them as women and as mother and daughter to one another; *to receive at designated intervals a newsletter for mother volunteers containing updates about breast cancer research initiatives, innovative treatments, educational programs available about breast cancer, and legislative information about regulations associated with breast care and treatment; *to participate whenever possible in local, regional and national efforts to increase breast cancer awareness and promote breast cancer prevention. |
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