Providing Support through Art Healing at HeART to Home
HeART to Home Program Offers Art Healing Walk With Sally’s HeART to Home program focuses on art healing and is specifically developed to assist children who have been impacted by cancer. The group sessions use art to further cultivate sharing and strengthen the connection between mentees and their mentors by providing mentees safe avenues for […]
Staying Connected and Supporting Your Mentee While Practicing Social Distancing
The recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led us to uncharted territory with many questions on how to continue building relationships and maintain our community when we are staying home. We wanted to share some tips on how to stay connected in your mentoring relationship in a time of social distancing! We encourage mentors, mentees, and […]
Mentor of the Year 2020
Walk With Sally’s 2020 Mentor of the Year Award Walk With Sally is honored to announce our 2020 Mentor of the Year! Maurice has become a fixture in our community and has been an incredible mentor and supporter of WWS! Thank you for all that you do Maurice! Bonded by Cancer Maurice lost his stepfather […]
2019 Holiday Friendship Activity at LA Live
Friendships and Families Ice Skating Together On December 7th 140 members of the Walk With Sally community came together for ice skating, movies, and fun to celebrate the holidays! The day began with an ice breaker where we got into groups and shared what we are most grateful for this year and our goals for […]
Putting the Men in Mentoring
Men Who Mentor: Meet Peter In honor of National Mentoring Month, Walk With Sally is honoring all of our mentors who contribute to our organization! We are so grateful for our volunteer mentors and all that they contribute to the Walk With Sally community. One mentor, Peter Phelps, is a cancer survivor, and just celebrated […]
Mentorship Spotlight: Meet Danny + Bryan
Mentorships & Friendships: Creating Hope In Spite of Cancer Meet Bryan & Danny: Danny is 11 years old and four years ago he lost his mom to stomach cancer. He’s now living with his older sister and typically keeps to himself in his room, oftentimes alone in the apartment they share. Danny’s sister found out about Walk […]
Creating A Future Filled With Hope: Liam’s Story
Liam was just a young teenager when he found out about his mom’s breast cancer diagnosis and he found himself continuing to listen to the voice in his head reassuring him that she would be fine, listening to that voice giving him hope. In June of 2017, he was matched with Brian and the hope […]
Walk With Sally Fall 2019 News & Events
Fall 2019 News & Updates Finding The Fun in Friendship Activities Since we last connected, Walk With Sally has been busy creating an incredible community of support around all of our families impacted by cancer. During July, Rock & Brews hosted their second activity of the year where mentors and mentees could come together for a […]
Speaking about Cancer within a New Mentoring Relationship
At Walk With Sally, each mentoring relationship begins with a Match Day—an introduction of mentor to mentee in the child’s home. The art of making new friends is often an awkward adventure. The first-time we meet someone can be an unchoreographed dance of fumbling over words and general uncertainty. This is only magnified when the […]
Walk With Sally & Rock and Brews Redondo Beach Friendship Activity 2019
Walk With Sally & Rock and Brews Redondo Beach Friendship Activity 2019 In partnership with Rock & Brews Redondo Beach, WWS provided some spring fun for our community. Why Partner with Rock & Brews? “Why not,” says Rock and Brews GM, Walter. It is so important for Walk With Sally to connect and create partnerships […]
