title: Sustaining a safety net breast and cervical cancer detection program.
abstract: For the past six years, the Chicago-area faith-based Reach Out Consortium has mobilized low-income uninsured and underinsured African American women and Latinas to seek screening for breast and cervical cancer. The funding history for this program illustrates how funds for a small community-based program were leveraged into a broader program, and that grew to serve low-income women across the state. Further, as the program reached more and more uninsured women, community activism led to a further state investment in services for the uninsured. Program sustainability and expansion depended on a combination of public and private competitive grants and grassroots advocacy.
authors.affiliation: shali@sinai.org
authors.forename: Linda Diamond
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Calhoun
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology*; D002641:Chicago; D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005378:Financial Support; D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011203:Poverty / Q000208:ethnology; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*