Komen Hawaii Affiliate | Grants/Outreach

Affiliates work with local medical experts and community leaders to conduct community needs assessments. These assessments are then used to establish local grant application and review processes consistent with our Affiliate’s service area needs and the Komen vision.

The Hawaii Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® has taken an active leadership role in funding grants to benefit area families. Programs funded from affiliate fund raising events range from educating women about healthy behaviors and early detection to providing treatment services to women and men who are low income/uninsured. The affiliate empowers women to take charge of their own health through participation in breast health seminars and outreach support targeting underserved and hard to reach populations.

25% of the proceeds from affiliate fundraising events in Hawaii fund research programs to find a cure for breast cancer. 75% of the proceeds from affiliate fundraising events are used to fund mammograms, breast cancer treatment, and education in Hawaii.

The Susan G. Komen For the Cure® - Hawaii Affiliate is pleased to announce the 2010-2011 Komen Hawaii Grant recipients. Komen grants are awarded annually for programs that focus on breast cancer education, prevention, awareness and treatment. In the Affiliate’s 16+ year history, over 50 of Hawaii’s community-based health centers, hospitals and programs have received funding from Komen to help fulfill the mission of eradicating breast cancer as a life-threatening disease. In 2010, Komen Hawaii met its $2,000,000 mark in the funding of Hawaii programs.

The Hawaii Affiliate works to expand Komen’s Promise throughout the Hawaiian Islands by supporting and promoting collaboration among Hawaii’s healthcare providers and organizations; enabling implementation of culturally sensitive education, screening and treatment programs; and obtaining and providing resources for the activities that will make our vision a reality.

HAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER (BIG ISLAND)
Funds will be used to provide free screening mammograms and follow-up diagnostics for at least 40 eligible Big Island women 40 and over. A portion will be used for 10% of outreach worker, mileage, educational materials, and supplies.

KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES
Funding will be used to increase awareness, prevention and early detection of breast cancer among low income Native Hawaiian, Filipina, Samoan, Micronesian and other Asian/Pacific Islander women of Kalihi Valley through outreach. Activities will include health fairs, culturally appropriate breast health education sessions, training for six peer educators, and recruitment and enabling services. Goal is to foster better breast health for at least 905 women.

WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER
Funds will provide breast cancer screening to underinsured and uninsured women ages 18 – 49 years of age who fall outside the guidelines for the BCCCP. Other activities will include awareness presentations and enabling services to support women. A health fair will also be sponsored by partnering with community agencies during Breast Cancer Awareness month.

KAPIOLANI BREAST CENTER
Funds will be used for the only integrated program to offer cancer risk reduction and risk management to Hawaii’s high risk women. This program provides screening services, quality nurse practitioner expertise, and access to uninsured high risk women in rural areas across the state, including Kauai, Maui, Molokai, and the Big Island.

KOOLAULOA COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER
Elements of the program for which funds will be used include education for uninsured/underinsured Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and those 65 and older; diagnostic tests/procedures for a limited number of uninsured women with abnormal breast findings; outreach to increase clinical breast screenings for women 40 and older; and transportation to increase access to services.

WAIKIKI HEALTH CENTER
Funds will provide uninsured and underinsured Native Hawaiian, Asian, homeless girls and women, and other women who have high mortality rates largely due to late diagnosis and treatment with breast health services. Clinical breast screenings and self-exam instruction will be offered to women and girls 14+ upon their first visit or if they have not had a breast exam within the past 12 months.

MOLOKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL
This program seeks to improve the continuity of breast care on Molokai and decrease the time interval from diagnosis to treatment through addressing the island’s disparity factors of geographic isolation, insufficient healthcare resources, economics, limited cancer knowledge and motivation. Activities include navigational services, increase in mammogram screening clinics, and community outreach. Access to appointments for diagnostics and travel funding
will be included.

LANAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
Funds will be used to expand their current Breast Care Program by focusing on increasing the number of women aged 40 and older to obtain mammogram screenings. Activities include proactive outreach with phone calls and email follow-ups, providing educational materials in Ilocano, and incentives to encourage keeping appointments. Monthly results will be analyzed, and approaches will vary in outreach and education efforts as needed.

HUI MALAMA OLA NA OIWI
The program of No Ka Wahine will focus on breast health education and cancer screenings and diagnostics for native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and Filipino women 35 years and older. Women in the most rural areas of Puna, Kau, Kona, and Kahala who are uninsured or underinsured and in need of clinical breast and mammography exam will be specifically targeted. A health fair in Hilo, bringing together physicians and organizations to provide breast health and breast cancer education, clinical screenings and exams, resources for cancer-diagnosed women, and follow-up support assistance by trained cancer patient navigators will kick off the program. Primary care clinical staff will then go mobile to four rurally located satellite offices.

HAWAII MEDICAL CENTER
Funds will be used to continue breast cancer services to medically underserved women ages 40 – 49, with focus on Native Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Island women. The project will provide free screening mammograms, clinical breast exams, and culturally appropriate breast health education and information to women who fall outside the BCCCP.

QUEEN’S MEDICAL CENTER (MOLOKAI SURVIVORS)
Funds will be used to expand the Queen’s comprehensive, multidisciplinary Cancer Survivorship Program to Molokai using web-based technology. Time constraints, finances, and geographic barriers prohibit Molokai residents from access to healthcare for breast cancer survivors. In collaboration with Molokai general Hospital, activities, such as video teleconferencing, breast cancer survivors will be able to participate in survivorship care and programs and breast cancer support groups.

PACIFIC CANCER CENTER
Funds will be used to establish a patient navigation system for breast cancer patients on Maui. Goal is to support patients physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially and logistically as they navigate their journey with breast cancer and ensure that all community resources are available to them. Patient advocacy will be included.

BAY CLINIC
Funds would be used to provide free mammograms and follow-up diagnostics and referral to uninsured/under-insured Native Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Island women.