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 2009-2010 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 15+ 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 2006, Komen Hawaii met its $1M 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.

HUI MALAMA OLA NA OIWI
NO KA WAHINE HEALTH FAIR - Funds will finance a Health Fair at the Primary Care Facility in downtown Hilo for Native Hawa ians, Pacific Islanders, and Filipino women in East Hawaii. This fair will bring together physicians and organizations to provide breast care clinical screening and exams, breast cancer education, organizations with resources for cancer diagnosed women, and follow-up support systems.

WEST HAWAII COMM. HEALTH CENTER
Reaching Out To South Kona Marshallese and Native Hawaiian Women - This project will extend breast health education and services to Marchallese and Native Hawaiian women who rank high among those with unmet breast health needs. Emphasis will be on the uninsured and underinsured and focus on two breast health events, in partnership with community and church leadership to provide education in an optimal environment for these groups.

HAWAII MEDICAL CENTER
Breast Cancer Screening and Breast Health Education for Medically underserved and Uninsured Women Ages 40 to 49 - This project will provide free screening mammograms, clinical breast exams, and culturally and linguistically appropriate breast health education and information to underserved women aged 40 – 49—Asian American/Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian women.

KOKUA KALIHI VALLEY
Breast Cancer Prevention for the Women of Kalihi Valley - Funds will be used to expand and improve KKV’s culturally appropriate, community based breast health program established in 2006 with the help of Komen. Activities will incluse outreach at community fairs, culturally appropriate breast health education sessions in a variety of settings, intensive training for ten peer educators to assist women to access preventative testing. Focus will be on low income Native Hawaiian, Filipina, Samoan, Micronesian, and other Asian/Pacific Island women of Kalihi Valley.

PAPA OLA LOKAHI
Second Annual Cancer Patient Navigation Conference - This two-day conference will convene about 100 participants, including trained CPN’s. Objectives are to expand knowledge, capacity, and resource networks of CPNs who assist breast cancer patients; to foster relationships between CPNs and cancer care providers; and to increase awareness of health providers of the role of CPNs in both community and clinical setting in facilitating and enhancing care for breast cancer patients.

WAIMANALO HEALTH CENTER
Waimanalo Health Center seeks to provide breast cancer screenings to underinsured and uninsured women ages 30 – 49 years of age. The Center will also provide breast cancer awareness presentations and enabling services and support to women who otherwise wouldn’t be able to receive care.

MOLOKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL
Molokai General Hospital Breast Cancer Enhancement - This project aims to improve the continuity of breast care on Molokai and decrease the time interval from diagnosis to treatment through addressing the island’s health care disparity factors of geographic isolation, insufficient healthcare resources, economics, limited cancer knowledge, and motivation. The project will help support navigational services, which provide patients culturally appropriate assistance throughout the continuum of care.

HAMAKUA HEALTH CENTER
The Breast Health Program - This program will provide free screening mammograms and follow-up diagnostics for at least 40 Big Island women under the age of fifty who have little or no insurance coverage. Focus will be on groups of women who, statistically, have higher rates of late-stage disease, commonly due to barriers to education efforts promoting the importance of early diagnosis and treatment.

BAY CLINIC
Breast Cancer Prevention Program - This plan will expand access to breast cancer screening within socioeconomically disadvantaged high risk populations by opening a dedicated women’s health center in Pahoa. Culturally competent care and outreach services to Native Hawaiian, Asian American, or other Pacific Islander women would be provided, to include free mammograms and follow-up care, such as biopsies and referral to specialists for low income/uninsured women.

KOOLAULOA COMM. HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER
Expanding Breast Education, Exam, and Screening - This program will provide culturally competent education and outreach for women with the greatest unmet breast health needs. It will educate and encourage of KCHWC’s female clients who should be receiving breast exams and mammograms to get them regularly and will provide for diagnostic procedures/tests for a limited number of uninsured women at KCHWC (who do not qualify for other programs) with abnormal breast findings.

WAIKIKI HEALTH CENTER
Celebrating Women/Celebrating Diversity: 26 Breast Cancer Screening and Education Events Targeting Uninsured and Underserved Women from Hawaii’s Diverse Populations - Over a 12-month period, 26 clinical breast cancer screening and education events will be conducted at the Center. Services will be provided on a sliding-fee scale for those without insurance—no one will be turned away for inability to pay. Hawaii’s diverse ethnic populations (Filipinas, Latinas, Native Hawaiians) and affinity groups (mothers and daughters, best friends, etc.) will be encouraged to attend.