2008-2009 Grant Recipients
Komen Columbus Announces Funding for 2008-2009 Breast Health Programming in 23-County Service Area
Local programs to receive nearly $1.4 million for breast cancer education, screening, and treatment
Komen Columbus announced it will grant $1,252,861 to fund 37 programs from within its 30-county service area in 2009-2010. Komen Columbus has raised over $13 million since it began in 1993 – 75 percent of that money stays in its 30-county service area and is used to conduct breast cancer education, screening and treatment programs. The other 25 percent goes to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® to fund national breast cancer research programs.
Grant monies will provide breast health programming for women and men in our 30-county service area. These counties include: Athens, Champaign, Clark, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Gallia, Guernsey, Hocking, Jackson, Knox, Lawrence, Licking, Madison, Marion, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Union, Vinton and Washington.
Komen Columbus Grant Recipients for 2009-2010 include:
Program Title: Aquatic Exercise for the Breast Cancer Survivor
Organization: Genesis HealthCare System
Counties Served: Muskingum & Perry
Description: This program will focus on lymphedema prevention and Survivors' physical fitness with bi-weekly aquatic classes taught by a licensed physical therapist. Underserved and low-income women will be recruited.
Program Title: Aquatic Exercise/ Survivor Arm Clinics for Lymphedema Prevention and Treatment
Organization: Mt. Carmel HealthSystem Foundation: Women's Health Center
Counties Served: Franklin+
Description: This grant seeks to offer breast cancer survivors options for finding help with diagnosing, treating and developing prevention strategies for lymphedema through the use of an aquatic aerobic exercise program and Survivor Arm Clinics.
Program Title: Asian Women Think Pink (AWTP)
Organization: Asian American Community Services
Counties Served: Franklin+
Description: This project provides culturally sensitive outreach and breast health education for Asian American women, and will refer women to existing mammogram services.
Program Title: BEAP (Breast Education & Awareness Project)
Organization: Vinton County Health Department
Counties Served: Vinton, Hocking
Description: The goal of this program is to educate underserved/low-income women regarding health issues, to raise breast cancer awareness and provide mammograms.
Program Title: BEST (Breast Education & Screening Together)
Organization: American Cancer Society
Counties Served: Franklin+
Description: The BEST Program for Women was developed and implemented in 1992 to provide screening mammograms and early breast cancer detection opportunities for low income, uninsured women.
Program Title: BHESAW II (Breast Health Education & Screening of Asian Women)
Organization: US Together
Counties Served: Franklin+
Description: This project targets Asian Women, using community health advocates to serve as community liaisons and interpreters during breast health education and mammograms.
Program Title: Breast Cancer Exercise Program
Organization: Mt. Carmel HealthSystem Foundation: Women's Health Center
Counties Served: Franklin+
Description: This program assists women with breast cancer to incorporate exercise into their lifestyle, so that they may experience the many benefits fitness has to offer. This project will target women with breast cancer, at least four weeks after breast cancer surgery.
Program Title: Breast Health for Uninsured People of Madison County
Organization: Madison County Health Partners, Inc.
Counties Served: Madison
Description: The Madison County Health Partners Free Clinic will provide mammograms and breast health education to uninsured women in Madison County.
Program Title: Breast Health Project
Organization: Selby General Hospital
Counties Served: Washington
Description: Selby General Hospital Breast Health Project is to increase screening mammograms to uninsured women ages 40 and older in Appalachian Washington County.
Program Title: BRIDGES on the PATH to Wellness
Organization: OhioHealth Foundation
Counties Served: Franklin
Description: The program will partner with community agencies to provide a continuum and expansion of post treatment services for breast cancer survivors with low-income and women from minority communities throughout central Ohio. This program will also try to reduce and remove obstacles that women with breast cancer encounter by providing women in need with vouchers for medications, transportation, gas cards and lodging during treatment and other supplies needed during and after treatment.
Program Title: CARE (Cancer Action Recovery Education)
Organization: Berger Health Foundation
Counties Served: Pickaway
Description: This grant will utilize a breast health nurse to offer breast health education, mammograms and further diagnostic screenings to underserved/low-income women.
Program Title: Central Ohio Breast Cancer Survivorship Initiative
Organization: James Cancer Hospital
Counties Served: All
Description: This program will promote key principles of breast cancer survivorship through education, screening, treatment and support. The focus will be on the transition from active breast cancer treatment to follow-up with attention on long-term survivorship initiatives to maximize outcomes.
Program Title: Columbus Cancer Clinic--Yes Mamm!
Organization: LifeCare Alliance
Counties Served: Franklin
Description: This program will provide 1,600 mammograms to women ages 40 and older or women with a family history of breast cancer with an emphasis on women who live in areas south of I-70 in Franklin County, are minority, and/or uninsured or under-insured.
Program Title: Enduring Support Through James Stitching Sisters
Organization: James Cancer Hospital
Counties Served: Franklin+
Description: The Stitching Sisters’ main endeavor is to provide a lap quilt for each newly diagnosed breast cancer patient receiving chemotherapy.
Program Title: Genesis Breast Health Initiative
Organization: Genesis HealthCare System
Counties Served: Morgan, Muskingum, Perry+
Description: This program will provide breast health education and breast screening services to women in Morgan, Muskingum and Perry Counties, targeting women who do not have the funds to obtain annual breast mammography due to their uninsured or under-insured status.
Program Title: Gentle Yoga for Energy & Relaxation
Organization: Mt. Carmel Health System Foundation: Cancer Services
Counties Served: Franklin+
Description: This program will provide a yoga program for survivors with goal of reducing treatment side effects and improving overall health.
Program Title: Hands of Hope
Organization: Southern Ohio Medical Center
Counties Served: Scioto
Description: This program will educate women ages 40 and older living in Scioto, Pike and Lawrence counties about the importance of breast cancer early detection. The program will also provide screening mammograms to uninsured women 40 to 49 and will hire a nurse navigator to provide home visits to post mastectomy patients.
Program Title: Healthy Adult Project: Breast Screening Program
Organization: Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Counties Served: Athens, Vinton, Monroe, Pike, Meigs, Morgan, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Noble, Scioto, Perry, Hocking, Ross, Washington
Description: This program will provide services on a fully-equipped mobile unit that travels throughout southeastern Ohio. The focus will be on women 40 and older, but the program is not limited to this age group.
Program Title: Heart of Wellness
Organization: The Wellness Community of Greater Columbus
Counties Served: Franklin
Description: The grant will allow the program to offer Survivor support groups in the Southside neighborhood, as well as an evening support group that will focus on exercise, nutrition and complementary therapies.
Program Title: IMPEDE (Importance of Prevention and Early Detection)
Organization: Grady Memorial Hospital
Counties Served: Deleware
Description: The overall goal of the IMPEDE program is to educate women in Delaware County on the importance of prevention and early detection of breast cancer and support and assist women diagnosed with the disease.
Program Title: Mother, Daughter, Sister and Friends Project
Organization: Knox Community Hospital
Counties Served: Knox
Description: This grant will utilize a breast health nurse to offer breast health education, mammograms and further diagnostic screenings to underserved/low-income women.
Program Title: Never Too Young…Never Too Old
Organization: Shawnee State University, Development Foundation
Counties Served: Pike, Lawrence, Scioto
Description: This program will provide education and screening to underserved women through the use of a mobile unit and nursing students.
Program Title: OhioHealth's Breast Health Second Opinion Clinic
Organization: OhioHealth Foundation
Counties Served: Franklin
Description: This free weekly clinic provides women a second opinion on diagnosis and treatment. Uses a group of multi-specialty physicians and professions that meet with the patient to review her case.
Program Title: Operation Red Zone: Strengthening The Safety Net
Organization: Holzer Medical Center
Counties Served: Gallia, Jackson, Vinton
Description: The program will provide community-wide breast health education and risk assessment screenings for underserved women ages 50 and younger.
Program Title: Pink Ribbon Initiative
Organization: King's Daughters Medical Center Community Services
Counties Served: Jackson, Lawrence, Scioto
Description: This program will provide screening mammography and education to underserved women with a specific plan for sending annual reminders.
Program Title: POSE (Partnership, Outreach, Support, and Education)
Organization: African American Cancer Support Group, Inc.
Counties Served: Franklin
Description: This program will use educational materials, presentations, web access and a hotline to raise awareness and expand breast health outreach within the African American community.
Program Title: Providing Preventative Mammography Health Education (PPMHE) to Somali Women
Organization: Mt. Carmel HealthSystem Foundation: Outreach Program
Counties Served: Franklin+
Description: This program will utilize a nurse practitioner and culturally competent social worker to offer breast health education, clinical breast exams and mammograms to Somali women.
Program Title: Proyecto Cancer de Seno en Latinas: The Latina Breast Cancer Project
Organization: OhioHealth Research & Innovation Institute
Counties Served: Franklin, Deleware, Licking, Fairfield, Pickaway, Madison, Union
Description: This program will address the breast health needs of the Latino community by aiming to increase screenings by connecting Latina women to already existing screening services through community educational programs and through use of a hotline.
Program Title: Relaxation & Guided Imagery for Symptom Management by Breast Cancer Survivors
Organization: Capital University, Department of Nursing
Counties Served: Franklin+
Description: This project will teach breast health survivors to effectively use relaxation and guided imagery in managing chronic symptoms and stress.
Program Title: SASS (Services and Social Support for Breast Cancer)
Organization: Licking County Health Department; Public Health Partnership, Inc.
Counties Served: Licking
Description: The Public Health Partnership of Licking County along with the Licking County Health Department will partner in a program to educate and create awareness on the affects of breast cancer to those Licking County residents who have been affected in any way by breast cancer.
Program Title: Saving Our Sistas (SOS) Breast Cancer Project
Organization: City of Refuge Point of Impact
Counties Served: Franklin
Description: This project will provide prevention and education services and mammograms to African American women. Will work to distribute information through African American churches.
Program Title: Strength In Motion
Organization: Adena Health System
Counties Served: Ross, Vinton
Description: This project is a 12-week strength and fitness program for breast cancer survivors for women in Ross county, Chillicothe and surrounding communities.
Program Title: The Power of Pink
Organization: Memorial Hospital of Union County
Counties Served: Union
Description: This program will provide direct-care services including screening, diagnostic and breast ultrasounds for those residents of the Memorial Hospital of Union County service area who are uninsured or underinsured. Also provides educational awareness and employee incentive programs.
Program Title: The Spirit of Strength Project (SOS): Treatment of Depression in Breast Cancer Patients & Survivors
Organization: The Ohio State University
Counties Served: Franklin+
Description: This project, the only of its kind in central Ohio, will develop a specialty clinic for breast cancer patients and survivors in need of services to address depression.
Program Title: Think Pink
Organization: Meigs County Cancer Initiative (MCCI)
Counties Served: Meigs
Description: The Think Pink Project for women ages 40 and older residing in Meigs County will enable the Meigs County Cancer Initiative to implement a community tailored approach to raise awareness and provide education about breast health as well as increase mammography screening rates among women in Meigs County.
Program Title: Together We Can
Organization: Ross County Health District
Counties Served: Ross, Scioto, Vinton, Pike, Lawrence, Jackson, Gallia
Description: This program will provide screening and education services to a rural, Appalachian population of women ages 40-64 who are at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level and who are uninsured and residing in Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Pike, Ross, Scioto or Vinton counties.
Program Title: You Are Not Alone: Targeted Support for Young Women With Breast Cancer
Organization: Young Survivors Coalition, Central Ohio
Counties Served: Franklin+
Description: The project will provide specific resource information, education peer support services, and awareness programs for young women (ages 40 and younger) affected by breast cancer.
