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2008 Education Grant Awards, Total Awarded - $28,637.50

Holy Cross Hospital

The Breast Cancer Education and Outreach Initiative (BCEOI) is a 2.5 hour, bi-monthly educational series. The purpose of the BCEOI is to empower women to become active in their personal breast health, while providing them with the tools and education to empower those within their community. This initiative will accomplish this through breast health education, as well as by teaching the Triple Touch II curriculum from the American Cancer Society.

The initiative also assists with linking each woman into medical care and establishing a medical home. Through this education and empowerment more women will identify breast abnormalities at earlier stages and receive mammograms; this will increase early detection and decrease the number of deaths due to breast cancer.

Planned Parenthood

The goal of Breast Health Education program is to provide education to teenage girls and women in Polk County and high-risk behaviors and the importance of early and regular breast cancer screening.

Planned Parenthood’s Breast Health Education program will serve at least 2,000 teenagers and women in Polk County. The program’s target population is teens and women in Polk County between the ages of 13 and 49 in medically underserved areas and women whose native language (Spanish, Creole, Haitian and Korean) is a barrier to accessing breast health education. The most current breast health information, including prevention strategies, will be provided to program participants.

North Broward Hospital District

Breast Cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among African American and Hispanic women. Underserved African American and Hispanic women continue to suffer disproportionately from breast cancer, which is the leading cause of death among Hispanic women and second most common cause of death among African American women despite a lower breast cancer incidence of 40% and 12% respectively lower than non-Hispanic White women. Using a “train-the trainer,” three-segment format: focus groups, train-the trainer classes, and participants’ educational workshops, this project will utilize culturally-sensitive breast cancer awareness and prevention education program to underserved African American and Hispanic women in the greater Fort Lauderdale area of Florida. Trainers will be experts and/or survivors of breast cancer from the targeted groups of women. A pre/post-test will be administered to each group to determine effectiveness of the content and cultural appropriateness of the training.