2011 COMMUNITY BREAST HEALTH GRANTEES
EDUCATION & OUTREACH
American-Italian Cancer Foundation (AICF)
Connects medically underserved women over 40 with mammography screening, targeting those who are
economically disadvantaged, uninsured, immigrants with language barriers, and who lack mobility or
transportation access. (New York City)
Indochina Sino-American Community Center (ISACC)
Focuses on uninsured and medically underserved Southeast Asians, primarily serving Vietnamese and
Cambodian refugees and immigrant women over 40, who face cultural, linguistic and financial barriers to
breast health information and breast cancer screening access. (Bronx and Manhattan)
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
Provides outreach, education, mammography, screening coordination and case management services to
medically underserved women aged 40 and older. (Brooklyn)
New York University School of Medicine and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Offers culturally appropriate education and screening coordination for Arab-American immigrant women.
(Queens and Brooklyn)
Planned Parenthood of Nassau County
Provides breast health education and access to breast cancer screening to uninsured and undocumented
African-American and Latina women. (Long Island)
Project Renewal, Inc.
Offers breast health education, outreach and screening coordination to medically underserved ethnic
minority women, new immigrants, the homeless and un- and under-insured onboard its ScanVan mobile
mammography clinic. (Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island)
Westchester Square Partnership, Inc.
Provides breast health education and screening referrals for Bangladeshi women in the Westchester
Square and Parkchester communities of the Bronx. (Bronx)
SCREENING COORDINATION
The Breast Center at Nyack Hospital
Provides breast health education, screening and diagnostic treatment and support services to medically
underserved women with a focus on reducing breast cancer mortality in medically underserved women 40
to 49 years old. (Rockland County)
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Offers targeted education and screening coordination for at-risk, underserved lesbian, bisexual and
transgender women. (New York City)
Cancer Services Partnership of Northern Manhattan— Columbia University
Provides screening coordination and diagnostic and treatment services for underserved Latina, AfricanAmerican and Caribbean women. (Northern Manhattan, South Bronx)
Flushing Hospital Medical Center
Offers breast health outreach, education and clinical screening targeting un- and under-insured Chinese,
Korean and South Asian women. (Queens)
Independence Care System
Coordinates breast health screening and educational workshops for women with physical disabilities who
are enrolled in a nonprofit Medicaid-managed long-term care program. (Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan)
Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York
Offers culturally and linguistically appropriate screening coordination and breast health education to unor underinsured Asian women, focusing on the Korean community. (New York City)
Mount Sinai Queens
Provides annual comprehensive clinical breast examinations, breast health education, mammography,
and other diagnostic services at no cost for under- and uninsured women in western Queens, specifically
Long Island City, Astoria, Sunnyside, Woodside, East Elmhurst and Jackson Heights. (Queens)
Nassau University Medical Center
Offers breast cancer screening and covers medical costs for medically underserved women 40-49 who
have limited resources. (Nassau County, Long Island)
Open Door Family Medical Center
Provides education, screening and diagnostic services, as well as treatment, for low-income,
undocumented women of color attending Open Door clinics. (Westchester County)
Peconic Bay Medical Center – Central Suffolk Hospital
Offers culturally and linguistically appropriate patient navigation and access to breast health screenings,
treatment, support services and education to Latina, African-American and Polish women. (Suffolk
County)
Ryan-NENA Community Health Center
Provides uninsured and underinsured women, regardless of immigration status, with culturally and
linguistically competent breast cancer services including outreach and in-reach education, breast health
education workshops and screening coordination services. (Midtown and the Lower East Side of
Manhattan)
St. Barnabas Hospital
Offers outreach, screening and follow-up support for poor and ethnic minority women who have a history
of being medically underserved. (Bronx)
St. John’s Riverside Hospital
Provides education, outreach and screening services targeted to uninsured and undocumented Latina
and African-American women in Yonkers. (Westchester County)
Woodhull Medical & Mental Health Center
Offers outreach, education, and screening services to low-income, uninsured and undocumented ethnic
minority women age 40 and older in North Brooklyn with the goal of increasing screenings and connecting
women to treatment. (Brooklyn)
SUPPORT & TREATMENT
Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program
Provides psychosocial support and counseling services to underserved ethnic minority women with breast
cancer and their families. Services include bilingual individual and family counseling, as well as financial,
transportation and food support services. (Nassau County)
The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Assists women diagnosed with breast cancer from diagnosis to completion of treatment and beyond,
providing education, referrals and support. Patients are primarily racial and ethnic minorities, low-income
and those with low and limited literacy. (Brooklyn)
CancerCare
Offers education and outreach, focused psychosocial support (including counseling, education, and
referrals), and financial assistance for women being treated for breast cancer. (New York City)
Chai Lifeline
Provides culturally sensitive psychosocial support, transportation to medical appointments, kosher meals
and daily living assistance to Orthodox Jewish women with breast cancer. (New York City)
Chemo Comfort, Inc.
Provides mostly underserved, underinsured, minority, low-income cancer patients with kits of products
that manage the side effects of chemotherapy, e.g. mouth sores, hair loss, and nausea. (New York City,
Westchester County)
City Bar Justice Center
Offers un- or underinsured Caucasian, Latina and African-American breast cancer patients, survivors and
their families with linguistically appropriate joint legal/social work assistance. (New York City)
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Screens and coordinates the supportive care needs of low-income African American and Latina breast
cancer survivors and co-survivors. Services include transportation and childcare stipends, one-on-one
mental health screening and education, and referral to counseling, support groups, and patient
navigation. (Bronx)
The Family Center
Provides legal and social services for un- or underinsured African- American, Latina and Caribbean
women with breast cancer and their families. Services include psychosocial support and guardianship
planning for children. (Brooklyn)
Gilda’s Club New York City
Offers psycho-educational workshops, lectures and weekly support groups (in English and Spanish) for
seniors who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. (Southeast Bronx, Upper Manhattan)
God’s Love We Deliver
Provides therapeutic meals for African-American, Caucasian and Latina women being treated for breast
cancer and their families. (New York City)
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
Offers a mechanism for tracking, educating and providing case management services to women
diagnosed with breast cancer, regardless of their insurance status or age. (South Bronx)
Moving On Center
Provides free, low-cost dance exercise programs, as well as discussions and lectures about healthy
lifestyles tailored specifically to breast cancer patients, survivors, and at-risk family members. Programs
help alleviate symptoms associated with treatment, including fatigue, weakness, weight gain, depression,
poor self-image, inflexibility, and joint or bone pain. (Manhattan)
Nassau/Suffolk Law Services Committee
Offers legal services to breast cancer survivors and their families. Assists them with housing, family and
consumer debt problems, advance directives, health care proxies, wills and guardianships. (Long Island)
New York Legal Assistance Group
Provides free legal services for low-income and medically underserved women with breast cancer and
trains cancer specialists on the legal issues affecting their patients. (New York City)
Richmond University Medical Center
Coordinates healthcare services for medically underserved, low-income African-American, Latina and
Caucasian women with suspicious findings and breast cancer diagnoses to ensure successful treatment
completion, reduce disparities in care and improve outcomes. (Staten Island)
2011 CLINICAL RESEARCH ENROLLMENT GRANTEES
Columbia University Medical Center
Increasing outreach, recruitment, and retention of ethnic minority patients for breast cancer clinical trials,
while surveying them on the barriers to enrollment. This is the first year of a two-year grant.
New York University School of Medicine
Offering newly-diagnosed breast cancer patients, who are ethnically diverse and have limited English
proficiency, with a multi-lingual navigation program that enhances access to treatment option information
and increased participation in clinical research. This is the second year of a two-year grant.
Montefiore Medical Center
Providing education and navigation to support enrollment of Montefiore breast cancer patients in clinical
trials and other research. The Montefiore-Einstein Center for Cancer Care serves a population markedly
underrepresented in therapeutic trials, of whom 32 percent are African- American, 52 percent are Latina
and 31 percent live at or below the poverty level. This is the first year of a two-year grant.