KOMEN GREATER NYC GRANTS $4.4 MILLION FOR 2012-13; $3 MILLION FUNDS COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION, SCREENING AND TREATMENT SERVICES FOR LOCAL UNDERSERVED WOMEN

Grants Also Fund Local Clinical Trials Enrollment and National Research

April 3, 2012, New York, NY — The Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure^® continues to be in the forefront of ensuring that local uninsured, underinsured, ethnic minority, immigrant, LGBT and disabled women receive community-based breast education and outreach, screening, treatment and support services. It is awarding $4.4 million in grants of which $3.0 million will go to New York City, Long Island, Westchester and Rockland County community-based organizations. Breast cancer research programs to find the cures will receive $1.4 million.

“Our number one concern is for the women in our communities. This is our 22nd year of underwriting programs that provide breast health services and support to underserved local women, women without access to health care who otherwise might not receive the screening, diagnosis and treatment they deserve,” said Blythe Masters, Chair of the Komen Greater NYC Board of Directors. “The economic downturn and its effects — loss of jobs and reduced government healthcare spending — have greatly increased their numbers.”

The grants breakdown as follows:

$2.9 million for Community Breast Health Grants, representing funding for education and outreach, screening coordination, and support and treatment programs.
$100,000 for clinical research enrollment, increasing the capacity of local researchers to enroll underserved women in breast cancer clinical trials.
Over $1.4 million invested in peer-reviewed national breast cancer research projects.

“Low income and unemployed women in the greater New York City area are more likely to experience extreme financial hardships resulting from costs related to treatment,” stated Anita R. McFarlane, MPH, Komen Greater NYC Director of Grants & Public Policy. “We are determined to help guarantee that our neighbors, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, insurance status, or physical ability, get the screening, support and treatments that are essential to their ongoing good health.”

The 2012 grantees will be introduced and honored at a breakfast on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at the Hilton New York. During the event, Komen Greater NYC will also announce its Grantee of the Year.

Among the class of 2012-13 grantees are Chai Lifeline, The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, God’s Love We Deliver, Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York Legal Assistance Group, The Breast Center at Nyack Hospital, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention, and United Cerebral Palsy of NYC. A full list of this year’s grantees follows this release.

About the Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure
The Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure was founded in 1990 and has raised over $60 million to date. Komen Greater NYC distributes 75 percent of its net income to fund local community-based breast health education, screening and treatment programs and clinical trials enrollment. The remaining 25 percent funds national research to find the cures. Our grants program supports essential, life-saving services for underserved residents of New York City, Long Island, Westchester and Rockland Counties. In 2011, Komen Greater NYC awarded $4.8 million in grants — $3.3 million supporting 36 community-based organizations and three hospitals that provide breast health programs to underserved women and $1.5 million underwriting peer-reviewed research projects at the national level. For more information, visit www.komennyc.org, or call 212-293-CURE.

About Susan G. Komen for the Cure
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, launching the global breast cancer movement. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Thanks to events like the Komen Race for the Cure^®, we have invested nearly $2.0 billion to fulfill our promise, becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world. For more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit www.komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN.

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2012 COMMUNITY BREAST HEALTH GRANTS

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH

Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, Inc.
Breast Education and Screening Together Project (BEST)
Offers breast cancer outreach, education, screening, and case management services to Chinese American women, targeting low income, uninsured or underinsured linguistically-isolated Chinese American women over 40. (Manhattan and Brooklyn)

Flushing Hospital Medical Center
Breast Screening Services for Chinese, Korean, and South Asian Women
Provides breast health outreach, education and clinical screening targeting uninsured and underinsured Chinese, Korean and South Asian women. (Queens)

Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
Caribbean Breast Health Outreach and Education Project
Offers outreach, education, mammography, screening coordination and case management services to medically underserved women aged 40 and older. (Brooklyn)

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
AMBER - Arab American Breast Cancer Education and Referral Program
Provides culturally appropriate education and screening coordination for Arab-American immigrant women. (Staten Island, Queens, and Brooklyn)

Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, Inc.
Sisters United in Health/Hermanas Unidas en la Salud
Offers breast health education and access to breast cancer screening to uninsured and undocumented African-American and Latina women. (Long Island)

St. Barnabas Hospital
Breast Health Education and Screening Coordination
Provides outreach, screening and follow-up support for poor and ethnic minority women who have a history of being medically underserved. (Bronx)

United Cerebral Palsy of NYC
UCP of NYC Breast Health Awareness Program for Women with Intellectual and Physical Disabilities
Offers education, outreach, and screening coordination for women with physical and intellectual disabilities in underserved neighborhoods of the five boroughs of New York City with a focus on Staten Island. (New York City)

YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester
Encore Plus Program
Provides culturally sensitive education, screening coordination and follow-up services for uninsured and undocumented Latina, African-American and Caribbean women. (Westchester County)

SCREENING COORDINATION

The Breast Center at Nyack Hospital
Screening Coordination Program
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 years of age and older. (Rockland County)

Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Breast/Chest Cancer Screening Access Project
Offers targeted education and screening coordination for underserved and at-risk lesbian/bisexual (LB) women and individuals of transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) experience. (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens)

Independence Care System
Breast Cancer Screening Project for Women with Physical Disabilities
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, Inc. (KCS)
New Beginning for Healthy Women
Offers culturally and linguistically appropriate screening coordination and breast health education to uninsured or underinsured Asian women, focusing on the Korean community. (New York City)

Long Island Jewish Medical Center
LIJMC Cancer Community Connection
Addresses breast health disparities among medically underserved women in Southeast Queens and Jamaica (a community comprised predominantly of African Americans as well as Hispanic, Asian, uninsured, and undocumented women) by providing educational, psychosocial, logistical, and financial support. (Queens)

Open Door Family Medical Center, Inc.
Breast Health Education, Outreach, and Case Management Program
Provides culturally and linguistically appropriate education, screening and diagnostic services, as well as treatment, for low-income, often undocumented women of color attending Open Door clinics. (Westchester County)

Peconic Bay Medical Center Central Suffolk Hospital
Taking Care of You
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)

Project Renewal, Inc.
The ScanVan Program: Mobile Breast Cancer Screening and Patient Navigation for Medically Underserved Women
Provides breast health education, screening, and patient navigation to medically underserved ethnic minority women, new immigrants, the homeless and uninsured and underinsured onboard its ScanVan mobile mammography clinic. (New York City)

Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention
Capacity Building for Breast Health Patient Navigation, Appointment Compliance & Outreach Education
Offers patient navigation, as well as outreach and education, to improve access to breast cancer screening among low-income, uninsured and underinsured women. (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Westchester County)

St. John’s Riverside Hospital
Yonkers Community Breast Health Initiative
Provides education, outreach and screening services targeted to uninsured and undocumented Latina and African-American women in Yonkers. (Westchester County)

William F. Ryan Community Health Center, Ryan-NENA Site
Lower East Side Breast Health Program
Offers 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)

Woodhull Medical & Mental Health Center
Connecting Women to Screening & Diagnostic Services: A Patient Navigator/Community Outreach Approach
Provides 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
Providing Support Services to Underserved Minority Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
Offers 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
Navigating Women Through Breast Cancer Treatment at an Underserved Community Hospital
Provides support for women with breast cancer from diagnosis to completion of treatment and beyond, providing education, referrals and services. Patients are primarily racial and ethnic minorities, who are low-income and have low and limited literacy. (Brooklyn)

CancerCare
Comprehensive Financial Assistance Program for Women with Breast Cancer
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, Inc.
Psychosocial and Financial Support for Orthodox Jewish Women Living with Breast Cancer
Provides culturally sensitive psychosocial support, transportation to medical appointments, kosher meals and daily living assistance to Orthodox Jewish women with breast cancer. (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Rockland County, and Long Island)

Chemo Comfort
Complimentary Chemo Comfort Kits for Breast Cancer Patients
Offers 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
Cancer Advocacy Project
Provides uninsured 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)

The Family Center
Project Talk: Legal and Social Services for Breast Cancer-Affected Families
Offers legal and social services for uninsured or underinsured African-American, Latina and Caribbean women with breast cancer and their families. Services include psychosocial support and guardianship planning for children. (Brooklyn and Bronx)

Gilda’s Club New York City
On-site Support for Underserved Minorities in the Bronx, Upper Manhattan, and Brooklyn
Provides access to free psychosocial support, psycho-educational workshops, lectures and weekly support groups (in English and Spanish) for underserved minority women living with breast cancer in the communities where they live. (Southeast Bronx, Upper Manhattan, Brooklyn)

God’s Love We Deliver
Nutritional Care for Women with Breast Cancer
Offers targeted outreach, customized meals, and ongoing nutritional assessments and education to women being treated for breast cancer and their families. (New York City)

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
Breast Cancer Center Patient Navigation Program
Provides 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)

NassauSuffolk Law Services
Permanency Legal Assistance Needs (PLAN) Project
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
LegalHealth Breast Cancer Advocacy Project
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
Breast Health Patient Navigator Enhancements
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)

St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center-SHARE
Breast Cancer Continuum of Care Program
Offers uninsured or underinsured women receiving breast cancer treatment at St. Luke’s the joint support of a patient navigator and a breast cancer survivor-patient navigator. (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens)

CLINICAL RESEARCH ENROLLMENT

Columbia University Medical Center
Minority Recruitment and Outreach for Breast Cancer Clinical Research
Improves outreach, recruitment, and retention of ethnic minority patients for breast cancer clinical trials, while surveying them on the barriers to enrollment. This is the second year of a two-year grant.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
PRIME (Promoting Immigrant Minority Equity in Cancer Research)
Increases enrollment of ethnic minorities in cancer observational studies and clinical research, targeting Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese and English-speaking immigrants from the five New York City boroughs with a focus in Queens and Manhattan. This is the first year of a two-year grant.

Montefiore Medical Center
Education and Navigation to Support Participation in Cancer Research: The PRISM Program
Provides 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 — 32 percent are African- American, 52 percent are Latina and 31 percent live at or below the poverty level. This is the second year of a two-year grant.

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