Ovarian Cancer Education & Awareness Initiatives

Funded Programs
September 1, 2004 – August 31, 2005

Carthage Area Hospital

1001 West Street
Carthage, NY 13619
Contact Ruth Chapin @ 315-493-1000, ext. 2525.

Serving Southern St. Lawrence, Northern Lewis and Eastern Jefferson counties.

This project establishes a community-based ovarian cancer outreach program that provides educational opportunities to providers and underserved women, raises public awareness and empowers high-risk and symptomatic rural and Native American women to seek early and appropriate medical care.

Central NY Area Health Education Center

10 Kennedy Place
Cortland, NY 13045
Contact Terri Gefell @ 607-756-1090.

Serving Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Schuyler, Seneca, Tioga and Tompkins counties.

This project uses traditional and distance-learning opportunities to specifically focus on hereditary and other risk factors for ovarian cancer for primary care providers working in underserved areas.

Charles B. Wang Community Health Center

268 Canal Street
New York, NY 10013
Contact Rebecca Sze @ 212-966-0228.

Serving NYC.

This project provides culturally sensitive education and follow-up services to Asian-American women residing in NYC. The Community Health Center conducts a comprehensive targeted outreach and media campaign, has developed an educational curriculum for consumers and providers, and provides quality clinical and referral services.

Columbia County Community Health Consortium, Inc.

389 Fairview Avenue
Hudson, NY 12534
Contact Barbara Berger @ 518-822-8820.

Serving Greene and Columbia counties.

This group is collaborating with the Healthy Women Partnership and community hospital to educate women in these counties and their health care providers about ovarian cancer. Special efforts are made to reach high risk and underserved women through print media, speaking engagements and other activities.

Erie County Department of Health

95 Franklin Street
Buffalo, NY 14209
Contact Maureen McCabe @ 716-862-1003.

Serving Erie, Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and Niagara counties.

The Erie County Department of Health provides education and outreach to medically underserved and geographically isolated women from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, especially rural, Amish and Ashkenazi Jewish women. The health department is also training nurses to provide education at nursing grand rounds and each year presents a statewide videoconference for family practitioners and obstetrician-gynecologists.

Gilda's Club NYC

195 West Houston Street
New York, NY 10014
Contact Harriet Mannheim @ 212-647-9700.

Serving NYC.

This project educates women, their families, friends and health care providers, especially those in underserved communities, through service networking groups and workshops. Workshops will be set up with the goal of improving communication between medical providers, people with ovarian cancer and their families and friends. Guest lecturers speak on ovarian cancer during each quarter.

Lake Plains Community Care Network

56 Harvester Avenue Ste 1
Batavia, NY 14020
ontact Charlotte Crawford @ 585-345-6110.

Serving Orleans, Genesee and Wyoming counties, and the Tonawanda Indian Reservation.

The network sponsors presentations to rural area healthcare providers on ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment, and provides fliers to be placed in physicians' waiting rooms. Culturally sensitive information on early signs and symptoms and risk factors for women is made available at health and county fairs. "Lunch and Learn" sessions will be made available to area businesses and print materials and PSAs produced.

Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital

One Atwell Road
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Contact Patricia Reynolds @ 607-547-3456.

Serving Chenango, Delaware, Herkimer, Madison, Otsego and Schoharie counties.

The project educates primary care physicians and other health professionals about risk assessment for ovarian cancer. Women in the project's target area, especially underserved women, are educated about signs and symptoms and how they can more effectively communicate with their health care providers.

Ovarian Cancer National Alliance

910-17th Street, NW, Ste 413
Washington, DC 20006
Contact Jennifer Schenfeld at 202-331-1332, ext. 301.

Serving NYS.

This project builds on current efforts to utilize ovarian cancer survivors to educate third-year medical students, with the possibility of expanding to nursing students, about ovarian cancer by allowing future providers to learn from and interact with women who have been through this experience.

SHARE

1501 Broadway, Ste 1720
New York, NY 10036
Contact Linda Koteen @ 212-937-5581.

Serving NYC and surrounding areas.

SHARE educates English- and Spanish-speaking ovarian cancer survivors to act as lay educators at community events. Many of the programs specifically target African-American, Latina, lesbian and low-income women. Another component targets breast cancer survivors to educate them about their increased risk for ovarian cancer. Bilingual educational materials are produced for, among others, print and radio markets. During the current year, SHARE will present four educational sessions, featuring gynecologic oncologists and survivors as speakers.

St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers

88-254 153rd Street
Jamaica, NY 11432
ontact Randi Moskowitz @ 718-558-9308.

Serving Southern, Northern & Western Queens, and Central Brooklyn.

This project utilizes a "train-the-trainer" program to educate nurses, undergraduate nursing school faculty and nursing students, physicians' assistants, mammography technologists and case managers who work in the various cancer screening programs in their hospitals. These providers will then educate the culturally diverse female population seen in their cancer screening programs.

The Research Foundation of SUNY

On behalf of the Long Island Cancer Center SUNY at Stony Brook

Long Island Cancer Center
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Contact Dr. Eva Chalas @ 631-864-5440.

Serving Suffolk and Nassau counties.

This two-pronged project educates primary care providers and provides community education for women (especially Hispanic women) using both television and print media. They include a telephone counseling and physician referral component to assure that symptomatic women receive appropriate services.

To Life!

278 Delaware Avenue
Delmar, NY 12054
Contact Thea Hoeth @ 518-439-5975.

Serving Albany, Rensselaer and adjacent counties.

To Life! reinforces and updates general care practitioners' knowledge of the signs, symptoms, risk factors, detection methods and treatment options for ovarian cancer via continuing education presentations recorded on DVDs for future use. High-risk women in the community are also provided information on signs, symptoms and risk factors. Print publications are widely distributed.

University of Rochester

5th Floor Hylan Building
Rochester, NY 14627
Contact Patricia Campbell @ 585-274-6993.

Serving Monroe county.

Through educating primary care providers, dissemination of information at worksites, radio ads, articles in newsletters and community presentations, this project raises awareness about ovarian cancer.