The Unspoken Hero Society is a nonprofit mentorship and advocacy group dedicated to inspiring positive development in the lives of chronically ill youth and adults in the Los Angeles, Orange & Riverside Counties. We work to empower children and adults with physical, emotional and behavioral issues to break through their challenges, to allow them to achieve greater success at home, school and in the community.

I want to validate that living through chronic illness can be quite traumatic. Sometimes friends, family, and even doctors do not recognize the trauma around this process. They may generally state that “you need to stop being so worried, anxious, or paranoid”. However, there are real life anxiety-provoking things that can happen with chronic illness such as recurrence of the disease, lack of recovery, and abandonment from family and/or friends who you trusted to stick with you. We as the unspoken Hero Society understand the true long-term effects having a chronic ill ness can have on the mind.

The Unspoken Hero Society was founded in 2013 with the focus of helping people with chronic illness specifically Sickle Cell Disease. The age range is focused on adolescents 0-17 and adults 18 & older. A common theme found among the chronically ill is “they have not been given the support they need to succeed or the knowledge needed to overcome there disease”. The Unspoken Hero Society provides support and knowledge that is needed to succeed by showing our members that we care and that our illness DOES NOT define us.