Sinai Family Health Centers, a network of 21 community health centers providing preventative services and prelinmary care in medically underserved Chicago neighborhoods, has organized a Coalition that will promote early breast and cervical cancer detection. This program is part of the national REACH 2010 program funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is a demonstration project aimed at reducing racial and ethnic disaprities in breast and cervical cancer screenings for African-American and Hispanic women using a faith-based model. The project's Coaliton consists of nine African American and two Latino religious organizations. Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization, and the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. The 11 lead churches and religious organizations have access to 370 African American and Latino churches throughout Chicago, Illinois and Cicero, Illinois. The Coalition is developing a commuity action plan that includes strtegies to encourage breast and cervical cancer screening to underserved African-American and Hispanic women using the support and infrastructure of the faith community.
Learning Objectives: Following this session, participants will be able to: 1) Discuss strengths and barriers of engaging faith communities in addressing health issues. 2) Promote the development of relationships with faith communities to address health issues. 3)Evaluate their efforts in engaging faith communtiies to reduce health disparities
Keywords: Breast Cancer Screening, Cervical Cancer
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.