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Louisville Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure Announces 2011 Community Grants

April 21, 2011

The Louisville Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure Announces

2011 Grant Recipients—Awards Record-Breaking $625,000 for Local Programs

 

LOUISVILLE—April 10, 2011 The Louisville Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure has announced the awarding of $625,000 in funding for 17 local breast cancer projects.  The checks will be presented to the grant recipients at the annual Closer to the Cure luncheon 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, at Hurstbourne Country Club, 9000 Hurstbourne Club Lane. 

Through the Community Grants Program, the Louisville Affiliate awards grants to non-profit organizations providing breast cancer screening and treatment as well as breast health education to residents in its 15-county service area: Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Shelby, Oldham, Spencer, Nelson, Meade, Breckinridge, Larue and Grayson in Kentucky, and Clark, Floyd, Scott and Harrison in Indiana. The Community Grants Program seeks to reduce breast cancer mortality, especially among those who are disproportionately affected by this disease.

Funds available for community grants are generated through the organization’s two major fundraisers, the Komen Louisville Race for the Cure® and the Pink Tie Ball, corporate and private donations and third party events.   Total fundraising for the Affiliate exceeded $1.2 Million.    

Local Grants Awarded Include:

Securing the Needs of Uninsured, Underinsured, and Single Low Income Breast Patients

James Graham Brown Cancer Center

Provides support before, after, and during the clinical journey for breast cancer patients; thereby decreasing the cost of care to indigent breast patients throughout the Louisville Affiliate Service Area.  Receiving emotional support, lifestyle adjustment items, disease specific education and complementary support programs.

Cultivando La Salud

Kentucky Cancer Program

Focuses on the breast health of Hispanic and Latina women in the Kentucky Service Area.  The goal of the program is to provide Spanish-language and culturally appropriate breast cancer education and patient navigation for Hispanic women.

Finding Connections: Reaching Uninsured Women with Mammography

Norton Cancer Institute

This program is to reduce barriers to screening and prevention services by utilizing a multi-modal approach, including a mobile prevention center to bring screening to the underserved in Jefferson and surrounding counties. 

Improving Breast Cancer Outcomes Through Education, Early Detection and Patient Navigation

Floyd Memorial Foundation

Through this grant Floyd Memorial Cancer Center of IN will partner with the Hispanic Connection and the New Albany Housing Authority providing outreach, education and patient assistance in order to reduce health disparities and improve the outcomes of patients with breast cancer.  The program will save lives by identifying breast cancer in its earliest stages and help women with breast cancer find the care they need.

Breast Screening and Outreach for Minority Women in Southern Indiana

Family Health Center of Clark County

This program to develop a coalition of agencies that provide services to the low-income, underserved, minority and homeless women in Clark and Floyd Counties.  The service will be provided through education and screenings.

Louisville & Jefferson County Partnership in Cancer Control

Kentucky Cancer Program

Provides clinical breast exams and mammograms at public health centers and community locations, follow-up treatment and navigation services, and community-based breast health and breast cancer education targeting women in geographic areas with high incidence, high mortality and low screening rates, including African Americans, non-English speaking, and those with low literacy rates.

Lifting Spirits at Hardin Memorial

Hardin Memorial Hospital

This program includes a focus on increasing community awareness/knowledge of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, while working with patients from the Louisville Affiliates service area.  Providing patients and financial assistance for the uninsured and underinsured for pet/ct scans, transportation, breast prosthesis and fitting services, compression sleeves.

YES, Mamm!  Breast Health Program

Flaget Memorial Hospital Foundation

This program will increase participation in breast cancer screening and treatment for medically under-served women in Nelson County and surrounding serviced counties.

Behavioral Oncology Clinic

James Graham Brown Cancer Center

This program is breast cancer specific psychosocial services program to meet the social, emotional, behavioral, and educational needs of women diagnosed with breast cancer.  Their primary service is individual counseling for emotional stress related to breast cancer diagnosis.

Lymphedema Care for Uninsured and Underinsured Women Diagnosed with and Treated for Brest Cancer

James Graham Brown Cancer Center

This program offset costs for prevention and treatment of lymphedema following diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer to reduce potentially debilitating effects and to improve or maintain optimal quality of life.

Gilda's Club Louisville's Breast Cancer Programming

Gilda's Club Louisville

This program allows for: individual consultations of members living with breast cancer, monthly breast cancer specific support and networking groups; quarterly educational lectures and workshops specific to breast cancer, the involvement of our members diagnosed with breast cancer in the boarder Club community; and targeted outreach to achieve diversity. 

Keep In Touch

Junior League of Louisville

The JLL will partner with KCP to provide all women impacted with breast cancer and reaches women throughout the community. Providing access to breast cancer support networks, mobile mammography, weekend retreats, art and movement therapy, and an annual reunion luncheon primarily for recently diagnosed breast cancer patients where they receive breast health and breast cancer education, art and movement therapy.

Health Awareness and Prevention Program

Boat People SOS, Inc.

Provides culturally and linguistically appropriate education, access, and follow-up services to empower Vietnamese immigrant and refugee women in the community to join the fight against breast cancer-the second most common cancer among Vietnamese women in the United States. The program targets underserved Vietnamese women in Metro Louisville who lack equal access to education, screening and care. 

You've Got A Friend

Friend for Life Cancer Support Network

Connects recently diagnosed breast cancer patients with breast cancer survivors who are trained to help patients navigate the path through diagnosis, treatment and recovery.

Lymphedema treatment and Support Garments to uninsured or Underinsured Breast Cancer Patients

Norton Cancer Institute

Increase awareness of the availability of preventive treatment for lymphedema with patient and provider education and increase access to lymphedema treatment and garments to uninsured and underinsured patients undergoing breast cancer treatment that may result with lymphedema.

Living Beyond

Baptist Hospital East

Provides long-term support, psychosocial care, and resources for women living with advanced breast cancer.  Co-facilitated by an experienced oncology chaplain and oncology social worker, support of members has expanded throughout the years to include a broad range of services such as home visits and one-on-one sessions.

Casting for Recovery Kentucky Program

Casting for Recovery

Provides a weekend of psychosocial support and breast health and breast cancer education for survivors as well as exercise to improve dexterity and the range of motion that is compromised by breast cancer surgery

 

In addition to the above over $200,000 will go towards the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grants Program to fund breast cancer research.

 

About Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and the Komen Louisville Affiliate 

Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. The Louisville Affiliate of Komen for the Cure is working to better the lives of those facing breast cancer in the local community joining more than 1 million breast cancer survivors and activists around the globe as part of the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting breast cancer. Since inception, Komen Louisville has invested more than $3 Million in community breast health programs.  Up to 75 percent of net proceeds generated by the Affiliate stays in the Louisville area community. The remaining income goes to the global Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grants Program to fund research.

 

For more information, call 502-584-CURE or visit komenlouisville.org.