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2009 Major Grant Recipients & Their Programs
$366,205 Awarded – The largest grant award in our affiliate’s 15
year history
Louisiana
State University Health Sciences Center- Shreveport – Feist –Weiller
Cancer Center – Partners in Wellness
10TH YEAR
Funded
- Provides a free health-screening program for
the underserved in northwest Louisiana and sponsors educational
materials and programs in coordination with other community based
providers. Screening mammograms are performed 5 days a week for
women and men of northern Louisiana who do not have health
insurance. For more information on how to schedule a mammogram,
please call Jennifer at
1-800-582-4523 or 318-813-2225.
Saint
Catherine of Siena Community Center – Breast Health Education
and Resource Program
5th
YEAR Funded
- Provides educational programs and free
screening for the underserved in many of the parishes in northwest
Louisiana. Also provides Spanish language interpretation at
clinic appointments. For more information on how to schedule a
mammogram, please call Marilu or Lakeisha at
318-865-4603.
Northwestern
State University of Louisiana - Take Action Against Breast
Cancer Project
3rd YEAR Funded
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Provides women without insurance or other financial
support in Natchitoches and Red River Parishes area no-cost
mammograms. Also provides education and advocacy within the
community regarding breast cancer. For more information on how to
schedule a mammogram, please call Catherine at
318-357-5129.
Desoto
Regional Health System – Breast Health Outreach Initiative
2nd
YEAR Funded
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Provides education, advocacy, and free breast
screening services to medically underserved women in DeSoto and
Sabine parish and other communities in Northwest Louisiana. For more
information on how to schedule a mammogram, please call Verna at
318- 872- 4610.
Louisiana
State University Health Sciences Center- Shreveport, Feist- Weiller
Cancer Center – Patient Navigation Program
1st YEAR Funded
- Program will guide patients with a
suspicious mammographic finding through the complex cancer care
process to ensure timely diagnosis and treatment. The goal of this
program is to reduce the number of patients being seen for
late-stage breast cancer.
Smaller grants were awarded to:
Community Renewal International –
Neighborhood Ambassadors Program focusing on the
neighborhoods of Allendale, Cedar Grove, Highland, and Queensborough
in Shreveport and Barksdale Annex in Bossier City. Life-long
residents of these neighborhoods will be Ambassadors to the
community and educate women regarding breast health and help them in
obtaining free screening in partnering with our other grantees.
For more information, call 318- 425-3222.
The Pool of Siloam – Ladies Day
at the Pool provides an educational event focused on
breast health and instruction of breast self exam of medically
uninsured and low income adults in the Shreveport Bossier area.
For more information call 318- 631-2122.
Bossier Parish School Nurses – Provides
educational materials and breast self exam training to high school
students in Bossier Parish.
Travel grants provide to the Take Action
Against Breast Cancer Program and Breast Health Outreach Initiative. |
