Building partnerships and leveraging strategic relationships to address barriers by pooling resources, sharing best practices, reducing redundancies in services, and uniting partners around the project’s goals and objectives.
Komen-supported community educators provide direct outreach and aid women in scheduling a mammogram appointment. These educators also provide continuous follow-up to support women through the process and increase the rate of completed mammograms.
Komen’s community organizing practices help identify available services, ensure that services meet the standard 60-day quality care benchmarks and provide supplementary grants to fill any gaps in screening. Additionally, Komen uses a grant-funded patient navigator to coordinate follow-up.
Debra Denise Hampton
Read her story and learn why she is involved with Komen San Diego’s Circle of Promise. Click here to read →
Sheri Hendrix
Learn why Sheri is an advocate for prioritizing your health. Click here to read →
Lilian Vanvieldt-Gray
Lilian is a Stage III Patient and BRCA II carrier to empower who wants to help educate San Diegans and African Americans about the importance of early detection. Continue reading →
Today, black women in the U.S. are about 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women. We can change that fact. Take action—get educated and empower yourself to know your girls.
Know Your Girls is a national public service communications effort to educate and inspire black women to understand their risk for breast cancer and to take charge of their breast health by engaging with information and tools that can ultimately promote early detection – and, when combined with effective treatment, save lives.
No one can control whether or not they get breast cancer–but there’s a lot we can control to keep ourselves, and our breasts, as healthy as possible. Here are five ways to get on top of your breast health and live your healthiest life.
There are so many things in this life we can’t control. We owe it to ourselves, and the people who love us, to take charge of the things we can.
Join us: make your promise to take care of yourself first and then become an ambassador to your community! We’ll provide you with all of the resources and tools you need to make changes in your own life and to share lifesaving messages with others.
Spread the word: invite your girlfriends, mothers, sisters, daughters, and co-workers to join the Circle of Promise. Tell them you want them to join you in the fight against breast cancer’s attack on the African American community before it’s too late.
Be active in your commitment: continue to fight with us by supporting public policy efforts, helping us to raise funds for research, and by making sure that the Circle of Promise is alive in your community!
If you’d like to get involved or learn more about the Circle of Promise, please email info@sdkomen.org or call (858) 573-2760.
Circle of Promise® San Diego Sponsors:
Torrey Pines Bank