Click on the links below to learn more about each of the 2006 Grantees.
After Breast Cancer Diagnosis (ABCD)
Culturally-Focused Mentor Training
759 N. Milwaukee Street #205
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: 414.278.1345
Email: joanabcd@sbcglobal.net
The goal of this program is to provide enhanced information, education and emotional
support to a larger number of newly diagnosed African American breast cancer survivors.
Join the cause by becoming a volunteer, one-on-one Mentor. Mentors are preferably
breast cancer survivors of at least one year past completion of active treatment.
All Mentors undergo 12 hours of intensive training, under the tutelage of medical
and other professionals, on topics such as ABCD History and Mission, Communication
Skills, Medical Updates, Liability and Ethics, Mentor Panels and Role-plays. Mentor
Training takes place twice yearly, in spring and fall, with a Continuing Education
Program each January. The next scheduled Mentor Training will be held on three consecutive
Saturday mornings, October 14, 21 and 28. Applications are now being accepted and
class size is limited.
ABCD has made a commitment to serve a greater number of underserved populations.
Culturally-Focused African American Mentor Training will be held on September
16, 23 and 30. Spanish-speaking Mentors are also needed, as are Mentors belonging
to other ethnic groups such as Native American, Russian and Hmong.
Additionally, ABCD needs volunteers to help in many other areas of the organization:
training, outreach, web page/HTML, clerical, newsletter layout and writing, special
events, fundraising, special projects, etc. For further information on becoming
an ABCD Mentor or Volunteer, please contact Coordinator of Programs.
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Froedtert Hospital in Partnership with Westside Healthcare Association
Breast Cancer Support Group
Marketing Dept.
9200 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Phone: 414.805.3862 or 414.777.7495
Email: kperlewi@fmlh.edu or cawashin@fmlh.edu
Abrazar La Vida (Embrace Life) is a support group for low income, non-English speaking,
Hispanic breast cancer patients and their family members. The group meets at the
Latino Health Organization on 12th and Mitchell Street. The meetings are facilitated
by a bi-lingual Spanish-speaking support group specialist that provides vitally
important psychological and emotional support to the breast cancer patients and
their families. Because the facilitator is bi-lingual, barriers to information normally
caused by language differences are removed. The support group is a start to empowering
patients in becoming their own health care advocate by providing information on
breast health and how to access/navigate insurance and health care systems.
Sister-to-Sister is a new support group for African American women breast cancer
patients and their families, with a special focus on aftercare and how those closest
to the patients in their inner circle of support and care can lend support. The
sessions will be held at the Westside Lisbon Avenue Health Clinic. Special care
is taken to ensure the sessions meet the specific needs of the African American
community.
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Gilda's Club Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc.
Breast Cancer: From Prevention to Treatment and Beyond
4050 N Oakland Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Phone: 414.962.8201
Email: maureens@gildasclubsewi.org
This is an outreach program with the goal to reduce fear (a major barrier to early
detection) and resistance to screening and non-compliance with treatment through
emotional support, and provide screening referrals, education, treatment support
services and prevention information to groups of underserved women in the Southeastern
Wisconsin area.
Upcoming Breast Cancer: From Prevention to Treatment and Beyond seminars:
September 23, 2006 — 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
La Causa Family Resource Center
804 W. Greenfield Ave.
Milwaukee, WI
October 7, 2006 — 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
House of Peace Community Center
1702 W. Walnut St.
Milwaukee, WI
Reservation can be made by calling Gilda's Club 414.962.8201, ext. 101
Gilda's Club is also looking for volunteers who speak Spanish, please contact them
at 414.962.8201, ext. 101.
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The Jane Cremer Foundation, Inc.
Jane Cremer Women's Cancer Awareness and Education Outreach Program
1127 N. Sunnyslope Drive #204
Racine, WI 53406
Phone: 262.884.4827 (Darryl B. Cremer)
Email: jcfounda@wi.rr.com
The Jane Cremer Foundation, Inc. is a not-for profit organization that provides
cancer awareness and education to women. The mission of the Foundation is to educate
and empower women in the fight against cancer, in a manner consistent with their
cultural background. This will equip women to be proactive in managing their personal
health care. Each participant will gain knowledge, be encouraged to ask informed
questions, and seek diagnostic testing and exams by qualified health care providers.
This will be achieved by offering four specialized Outreach programs geared for
minority women – two for African American women, and two for Hispanic women,
in Racine and Kenosha. Each program consists of:
- Presentation by a top quality speaker educating women about breast cancer –
detection and screening, treatment option, and dealing with breast cancer diagnosis.
- Health Education Fair includes 105-150 exhibitors that provide services related
to the topic of breast cancer and also represent the major medical providers in
the area of cancer and women's services.
- Dessert Buffet allows the women to socialize, discuss the program and to ask additional
questions of the speaker and Health Fair exhibitors.
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Latino Health Organization, Inc.
Riverwest Latina Breast Cancer Awareness Project
1225 W. Mitchell Street, Suite 212
Milwaukee, WI
Phone: 414.220.4610
Email: banderson@mikwuakeecatholichome.org
The Latino Health Organization's Latina Breast Cancer Awareness Project will focus
on Latina women in Milwaukee's Riverwest Community, a population often overlooked
due to the majority of Latinos living on the city's south side. The heart of the
program is a bilingual (English/Spanish), culturally sensitive approach to breast
cancer awareness, treatment and resources. The project focuses on the importance
of breast cancer screenings via education and outreach. To reach this demographic,
the Latino Health Organization leads individualized education and advocacy services;
community workshops; collaborates with parent groups at local schools, churches
and community centers; and provides referrals to local health care providers for
mammograms and other health issues. In 2006, the Latino Health Organization will
further its work by working closely with local Komen grant partners to leverage
resources, improve outreach strategies; develop a Latina breast cancer support group,
and co-host a family-oriented breast cancer awareness seminar and community fair.
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Milwaukee Catholic Home
Nurses Affecting a Change
2330 North Prospect Avenue
Milwaukee, WI
Phone: 414.647.9990
Email: rafael@latinohealthorganization.org
This program will aim to reduce breast cancer morbidity and mortality in the African
American community in Milwaukee by offering church-based and work-site based breast
health and breast cancer educational presentations designed for medically underserved
African American women. The first component of this program involves African American
nurses with experience in breast health education that will engage in twice-monthly
presentations focusing on breast health and breast cancer education and breast cancer
screening. After each presentation a representative from the Wisconsin Well Women
program will be on site to schedule mammograms. This component of the programs is
projected to serve 350 African American women in 2006. The second component of this
program will involve the presentation of two work-site based and community-outreach
Breast Cancer Awareness Programs at the Milwaukee Catholic Home. The staff at this
facility is comprised of 275 employees of whom 230 are women, ages 25-62. Seventy-five
percent of the employees do not have insurance because they cannot afford the insurance
premiums; they are employed as nurse's assistants, housekeepers and dietary aides.
Consequently, most of these women had never had a mammogram, clinical breast exam,
nor had they practiced breast self- exams. The breast health and outreach program
presented at the Milwaukee Catholic Home is held once a year. Realizing that women
transition in and out of our facility and in an effort to serve the family members
of our employees, we have concluded that there was a need to expand the program
to become a bi-annual event. A representative will be on site from the Wisconsin
Well Women's Program to schedule women for mammograms. Transportation is provided
when necessary.
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Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital
Hispanic Outreach for Breast Education
791 Summit Avenue
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
Phone: 262.569.6301
Email: Vicki.Dallmann-Papke@phci.org
The Hispanic population continues to be the fastest growing minority population
in both Waukesha and Jefferson counties. The purpose of our community-based program
is to provide breast education and mammography services to our Hispanic population.
We are currently in collaboration with the Wisconsin Well Woman Program, making
the mammography and clinical breast exam services possible. The collaboration within
our counties' breast centers also allows us to case-manage our clients so that they
are provided breast screening and diagnostic services when applicable.
The goal is to provide this population with a medically trained Spanish speaking
health promoter to facilitate breast health and wellness along with WWWP Screening
services to our Hispanic population. This population not only suffers from financial
and cultural constraints, but also lacks the educational background to facilitate
wellness exercises within their everyday lifestyle. This program will outreach to
700 women in 2006. The program will facilitate entry into programs in which they
qualify, at the same time acting as a LIAISON while providing interpretation, support,
and transportation services.
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Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc.
Early Breast Detection Education in Low-income Hispanic/Latino Communities
302 N. Jackson Street
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: 414.289.3779
Email: lorraine.lathen@ppwi.org
In Milwaukee County, the Latino population grew by 85% between 1990 and 2000. Despite
their growing numbers, Latinas are disproportionately impacted by breast and cervical
cancer. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (PPWI) and its community partners will implement
programs aimed at addressing structural and cultural barriers that prevent low-income
Latina women from accessing breast health care.
Similar to Avon or Tupperware parties, PPWI and its "Promotoras de Salud" (bilingual
volunteer community health educators) will reach over 1,400 Latino women and men
with breast cancer early detection education. Low-income Latina women between the
ages of 15 and 64 and their sexual partners are the primary audience for this intervention.
Through our continuing collaboration with the Sixteenth Street Health Center and
PPWI's Health Centers, routine clinical breast exams will be provided at no cost.
Follow-up care for abnormal breast exams will be provided at no cost to approximately
20 women.
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Sixteenth Street Community Health Center
Hispanic Breast Health Awareness & Screening Project
1337 S. 16th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Phone: 414.672.1315, ext. 381
Email: Julie.schullerMD@sschc.org
Sixteenth Street Community Health Center (SSCHC) is a non-profit organization that
has been providing quality health care services to Milwaukee's near south side for
35 years. Late diagnosis of breast cancer occurs among Hispanic women in part because
they often do not have access to language and culturally appropriate clinical breast
exams and mammography. In response, the SSCHC provides linguistic and culturally
appropriate outreach and education activities to increase awareness and knowledge
among Hispanic women about breast cancer screening and early detection. The SSCHC
is installing a mammography machine which will expand accessibility of services
to this underserved population.
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University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee College of Nursing
Cancer Control Community Collaborative
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: 414.229.6474
Email: underwoo@uwm.edu
The Cancer Control Community Collaborative will aim to reduce breast cancer morbidity
and mortality in Southeastern Wisconsin through the presentation of a series of
culturally-specific breast cancer education and referral programs to approximately
1,200+ African American women and 1,200+ Hispanic women from Milwaukee, Kenosha
and Racine County.
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University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Institute for Urban Health Partnerships
Connections for Health III
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Institute for Urban Health Partnerships
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: 414-229-3546
Email: fayram@uwm.edu
A collaborative partnership including UWM College of Nursing, UWM Institute for
Urban Health Partnerships, House of Peace Community Nursing Center, House of Peace,
Community Center, Cardinal Stritch University, Silver Spring Neighborhood Center
and Silver Spring Community Nursing Center to provide culturally-relevant breast
health outreach, education, and screening services to underserved minority women
in community-based sites, using nurses and nursing students clinically educated
in breast health concepts.
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Wisconsin Well Women Program Southeastern Region
Southeastern Regional Breast Care Fund
8901 W. Lincoln Ave
West Allis, WI 53227
Phone: 414.328.7407
Fax: 414.328.8123
Email: kim.melcher@aurora.org
The Southeastern Regional Breast Care Fund continues its purpose to provide financial
assistance for women who need screening, diagnostic follow-up testing and treatment
for breast cancer and those who lack adequate resources to pay for the services
indicated by screening findings. These medically underserved women may be uninsured,
underinsured, have low paying jobs or who recently lost their jobs, may be the sole
support for family members; or are otherwise unable to meet expenses during these
difficult economic times. The fund serves the following eight counties: Jefferson,
Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Walworth, Washington and Waukesha. WWWP coordinators
promote breast cancer education and outreach, having demonstrated significant progress
in increasing initial screening for these women.
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