Lowcountry Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure annually accepts applications for breast health and/or breast cancer education, outreach, treatment support, or screening projects targeting services not otherwise available to the medically-underserved populations of Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry Jasper and Orangeburg counties in South Carolina. Grants are available up to one (1) year. More than $3.5 million has been awarded in grants throughout our 13-county area since 2001.
View photos from the 2010 grant recipient luncheon.
Grant Information and RFP
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Volunteers in Medicine
Beaufort County
Awarded: $46,252.99
Plan:
- Raise awareness about the importance of early detections and treatment.
- Ensure that all patients who require follow-up via VIM's Patient Navigator are tracked and documented through completion of their treatment.
- Provide a comfortable and comprehensive learning environment for non-English speaking patients from exam through follow-up.
- To comply with the National Cancer Society's recommendations for mammograms in providing annual screening mammograms for women over the age of 40 and earlier for women with increased risk or in need of a baseline mammogram.
- To ensure that once a patient is in the program that she is reminded on an annual basis to come back for her regular exam and mammogram.
Allendale County Hospital
Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell and Hamption Counties
Awarded: $40,319
Plan:
There continues to be a limited need (2-3 per year) for biopsy funding for Pink Prevention Program patients. This year we propose to provide biopsy funding for 2 women through the collaborative efforts of the Pink Prevention Program and The Regional Medical Center's Breast Health Center in Orangeburg. Women who are identified in need of this service would be referred to TRMC Breast Health Center/Becky Hejl for further assessment and/or procedure. The Pink Prevention Program would provide funding for any necessary procedures.
An additional need is for marketing of the Pink Prevention Program and breast health education. In the past we have relied on local newspaper support of this program as a free service. We realize that there are times that "free" is not possible for advertising purposes, just as we realize that a large cross-section of the population choose to listen to local radio stations as a source of information and entertainment. Radio advertising would be a useful tool for marketing, as well as the local newspapers.
Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health Services
Beaufort, Hampton and Jasper Counties
Awarded: $80,730.40
Plan:
- 3,000 women will receive education materials and counseling through outreach programs for breast cancer awareness.
- Complete 450 clinical breast exams and 420 mammograms for the target population.
- Follow-up care will be available for up to $20,000.00 with the maximum payment per patient set at $2000.00 per women.
- Provide eight outreach women health programs providing clinical breast exams and mammograms in collaboration with the Beaufort Memorial Mobile Wellness Unit.
- By March 31, 2010, BJHCHS will have signed up 50% of women who receive a SGKG mammogram for the 50 million pound challenge providing weight checks and nutrition sessions monthly.
- By November 30, 2010, the BHOC will educate and have 8 churches conduct Pink Sunday.
Regional Medical Center Orangeburg
Orangeburg County
Awarded: $62,973
Plan:
Screening exams will be offered to the women of Orangeburg and Bamberg Counties with limited or no insurance with follow up if necessary. (Our goal is 250 screening mammograms.) Word of mouth has been a tremendous help in furthering our goal in spreading the word about early detection. Church groups are coming together to increase the numbers for our events. Many women who were afraid of mammography are now getting screened after attending one of our sessions. The knowledge that they receive shows the importance of early detection. Women continue to reach out to others during our sessions to help break the myths involved in mammography. (Our goal is to reach more than 1500 women during our next sessions.) We also encourage testimonies from breast cancer survivors during our sessions.
We have reached out to Paula Walls in Allendale County to assist with getting them started on their own Lunch and Learn programs. I have volunteered to help with her project. Also, we are planning to coordinate projects with Jeanette Moyer, of Colleton County, to help in getting a Lunch and Learn program going there as well. In the last year, we did two biopsies on patients that came under the Pink Prevention grant from Allendale.
Roper St. Francis
Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester Counties
Awarded: $25,395
Plan:
- To reach 120 healthcare providers within the tri-county area (physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants in the specialties of family practice, internal medicine, gynecology, surgery, radiology) with education about local breast health resources (Community Profile Priority #4)
- To provide information on breast health and breast cancer to at least 675 women through community outreach activities, targeting African-American and Hispanic women (Community Profile Priority #2)
- To provide at least 275 women who are 20 years of age and older with free clinical breast examinations, targeting minority groups and younger women (Community Profile Priority #3)
- To provide 300 free breast imaging procedures for underserved women (low income, uninsured); 150 to be paid by this grant (ages 20-39), and the remainder to be paid by the Best Chance Network (ages 40-64) (Community Profile Priority #3)
SCCA - South Carolina Cancer Alliance
Allendale, Bamberg, Orangeburg, Colleton and Hampton Counties
Awarded: $47,790
Plan:
This project is designed to continue the implementation of the WP in SC. We will train 60 volunteers to become WRMs and LHAs, and in addition, we will train 15 current Witnesses through this project to become trainers. These trainers will be able train others in their community to become Witnesses even after the conclusion of this grant. All of the trained WRMs and LHAs will be asked to commit to presenting the program in a minimum of 3 churches or community centers within nine months. To address the necessary strategy of "dual champions" we will have a regional coordinator to assist women in scheduling appointments within the region and collecting the evaluations to share with the project evaluator. The part time regional coordinator will monitor and provide technical assistance to the community volunteers, act as a liaison to the community volunteers and project evaluator, help with complicated screening referrals and report progress to the SCCA Community Education Subcommittee.
United Way of BCH
Bamberg, Colleton and Hampton Counties
Awarded: $35,801.01
Plan:
- Goal 1 - To provide 100 screenings as needed to include; diagnostic screenings, diagnostic unilateral/bilateral screenings, breast ultrasounds (one side or two), needle localizations (one or two), specimen films and radiology readings by March 31, 2011.
- Goal 2 - To participate, facilitate or provide 4 education and awareness meetings, community health fairs, or other breast wellness events in Bamberg and Colleton (Hampton as needed) by March 31, 2011
- Goal 3 - To continue to distribute educational and awareness materials to physician offices, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and healthcare related entities by March 31, 2011.
- Goal 4 - To continue to distribute educational and awareness materials through community organizations, houses of worship and local events by March 31, 2011.
- Goal 5 - To continue the 2 newly created Komen fundraising events and to add 1 additional event by March 31, 2010.
Greater St. Paul AME
Georgetown County
Awarded: $18,220
Plan:
Our primary objective is to break down the walls of fear, provide education and eliminate inaccessibility to breast health in the rural community of Georgetown County. We have already lost too many women to breast cancer when their lives could have been saved. A part-time coordinator to plan and execute monthly Lunch and Learn events will keep this program organized and on track. Effective speakers will deliver the message of how important it is to perform breast self exams, annual screenings and follow-up of any abnormalities. Many times when we do convince women to get screened, they often do not follow up if there is an abnormality. Cost is a major factor, but with the project coordinator encouraging follow up and securing assistance from the Cancer Services Coordinator/Navigator at our local cancer treatment center, we can hopefully move the patients through the entire cycle of screening, diagnostics and treatment. Our goal is to educate a minimum of 50 women per month, and provide opportunity for screening at least 12 women each month. Since transportation is often a barrier, our local churches will use their vans to transport the women to screening facilities.
Speakers at the Lunch and Learn events will be selected from volunteer registered nurses, physicians, nurse practitioners, and other clinicians. Written education information will be distributed at the events, and a nurse will demonstrate self exam on breast models borrowed from the cancer center. Community outreach staff from Santee St. James Health Center, Georgetown Hospital System and Community Health Education has volunteered to assist us with this project.
State Baptist Young Women's Auxiliary
Horry County
Awarded: $44,101.00
Plan:
The State Baptist Young Woman's Auxiliary (YWA) proposes to adapt the Witness Project to address the disparate breast cancer burden borne by African American (AA) women in Horry County, in particular those that are rarely/never screened. The Witness Project, developed in Arkansas, is designed to increase breast cancer education, awareness, and promote mammography among underserved African-American women. In 2002, the YWA made health wellness and community health education a top priority, and since has partnered with state and local health agencies, using an "inside out" community-based educational approach to work within the AA community to enable effective communication, engender trust, and promote participation in successful health projects in South Carolina. Forty YWAs will be trained in the Witness Project and 30 educational sessions will be held to educate 1500 or more persons about breast cancer and screening. An overall evaluation will be conducted measuring increase screening within targeted group. A successful project will reveal increased breast cancer screening levels among hard to reach AA women to lower mortality among this population.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Horry County
Awarded: $10,425
Plan:
Conduct Lunch and Learns, Pink Sunday, target 3 beauty and barber shops to provide education, promote early screening, create more awareness of breast health issues, and to address the barriers to treatment, transportation, education and poverty.
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center
Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester and Georgetown Counties
Awarded: $47,000
Plan:
The purpose of this project is to increase early detection of breast cancer by providing mammography screening and access to follow up care among economically disadvantaged women in targeted Lowcountry affiliate counties. This will be accomplished by 1) providing 475 digital mammography screenings on the Hollings Cancer Center HCC Mobile Health Unit and in the HCC multi -disciplinary breast clinic and 2) using volunteer outreach patient navigator to recruit eligible women for screening in Colleton country and Charleston Sea Islands - Johns Island, James Island, Hollywood and Wadmalaw and 3) ensuring all women with abnormal finding receive access to follow up care.
Hampton Regional Medical Center
Hampton County
Awarded: $25,000
Plan:
The goals of the Screening Save Lives project are (1) to intensify awareness of the need for breast cancer screening with special emphasis on indigent, uninsured and underinsured women of any age (2) provide access to locally available screening and diagnostic mammography and breast ultrasound and needle localization biopsy for all women regardless of financials status or age (3) develop a no-cost community ? based transportation system for local mammography services. The likely impact of the program will be an additional 200 mammograms between May and December, 125 of which will be to women without funding.
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