2022 PROGRAM GRANTEES

Athens Nurses Clinic

Healthy Northeast Georgia Women
Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Franklin, Jackson, Greene, Hart, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Stephens Walton

Healthy Northeast Georgia Women provides breast health information, clinical breast exams, screening mammograms and/or coordinates diagnostic mammograms at no cost for uninsured indigent women in northeast Georgia.

Atlanta Cancer Care Foundation

Patient Financial Assistance Program
Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, Dekalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Newton, Paulding, Rockdale, Walton

The Atlanta Cancer Care Foundation provides assistance to adult cancer patients who are financially challenged by a cancer diagnosis. Approved grants are applied directly towards daily expenses such as mortgage or rent payments, utility bills, groceries, transportation, durable medical equipment, prescription medications, lymphedema garments or similar expenses.

Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc

Breast Cancer Legal Project
Clayton, Cobb, Dekalb, Fulton, Gwinnett

The Breast Cancer Legal Project addresses the legal needs of low-income breast cancer patients and survivors. Unmet legal needs of low-income breast cancer patients and survivors are barriers to care and affect their ability to focus on treatment and wellness. Attorneys and paralegals address legal issues including public benefits, maintaining income and housing, employment rights, and preparing wills and advance directives. The BCLP provides legal advice and representation, works with medical provider partners to conduct outreach and offsite intake, and trains pro bono attorneys to serve the unique needs of this population.

Boat People SOS – Atlanta

Health Awareness & Promotion Program for Breast Cancer
Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Dekalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Habersham, Henry

The Health Awareness and Prevention Program for Breast cancer seeks to improve and promote preventative breast health services to underserved Asian women living in Metro-Atlanta by providing free clinical breast exams and mammogram referrals. HAPP-Breast Health offers a system of patient navigation counseling and case management designed to help Vietnamese American women overcome barriers to obtain preventative breast cancer screening and follow-up if there is an abnormal result from a mammogram.

Cancer Support Community Atlanta

Living Fully With Breast Cancer
All programs offered virtually and serving all counties in Georgia

The Living Fully with Breast Cancer program provides breast cancer patients and survivors supportive programs that include multiple breast support groups, gentle exercise and stress reduction classes, nutrition classes, and art therapy.

Center for Black Women’s Wellness

Community Breast Health Project: COVID Intervention
Clayton, Cobb, Dekalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry

Community Breast Health Project: COVID Intervention aims to meet the increased need (caused by delayed treatment, loss of employer-provided healthcare, etc. due to COVID-19) for women’s access to breast health services through extensive outreach and the dissemination of culturally appropriate messages on prevention and screening. The women who benefit from the program will be primarily African-American, uninsured or underinsured, and low-income. Services include low cost/no cost clinical breast exams and low cost/no cost screening mammograms and diagnostic services through area partners.

East Georgia Cancer Coalition

Have You Been Screened? – North & South Programs
EGCC- North
Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Hart, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Walton, Wilkes
EGCC- South
Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, McDuffie, Richmond, Screven, Warren, Washington

The Have You Been Screened? Mammography program increases community access to mammogram services by addressing structural barriers and reducing out-of-pocket costs. The program incorporates the Community Guide’s evidence-based task force recommendations by reducing the time and/or distance between the service delivery settings and target populations, offering services during non-traditional hours and offering services in alternative, non-clinical settings.

Good News Clinics

Breast Disease Prevention and Treatment Program
Hall

The Breast Disease Prevention and Treatment Project will provide free clinical breast exams and screening mammograms to uninsured/low income Hall County residents who have no other resources to receive them. Those who have positive screening results or symptoms requiring additional testing will be referred through Good News Clinics’ Health Access Program for free follow-up care including free diagnostic imaging.

Good Samaritan Health Center

Good Sam’s Breast Health Program
Bartow, Bibb, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Decatur, Dekalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding, Pike, Rockdale

The Women’s Health Screening Program at The Good Samaritan Health Center provides clinical breast exams, screening mammograms, and diagnostic testing to uninsured, low- income women in Atlanta and the surrounding areas.

Good Samaritan Health Center of Cobb

Women’s Health Initiative
Barrow, Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Douglas, Paulding

GSC’s Women’s Health Initiative strives to provide affordable and accessible women’s breast health by providing access to clinical breast exams, screenings, diagnostic mammograms, and breast cancer treatment.

Grady Health Foundation

Increasing Access to Genetic Counseling and Testing for Patients of Grady’s Georgia Cancer Center of Excellence
Dekalb, Fulton

Grady Health System provides access to genetic counseling and testing for individuals who have a personal or family history suggestive of hereditary breast cancer and who are uninsured or underinsured.

Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation

Mammograms for the Uninsured
Banks, Barrow, Dekalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Jackson, Newton

This project provides breast cancer screenings and evaluations of breast abnormalities for under-insured people in Gwinnett County. It provides mammograms to patients without insurance, or those who have extremely high co-pays or deductibles who present themselves as an identified need.

Hope for the Journey

Operation Hope
Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Heard

Operation Hope aims to better assist women, that have been diagnosed with breast cancer and directly impacted by the pandemic, by providing direct assistance in the form of utility payments, rent, groceries, prescriptions or medical supplies, and transportation services.

Lighthouse Lymphedema Network

Compression for the Cause
Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bryan, Burke, Butts, Catoosa, Chatham, Cherokee, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, Coffee, Colquit, Columbia, Coweta, Crisp, Dekalb, Douglas, Effingham, Elbert, Emanuel, Fayette, Forsyth, Franklin, Fulton, Glascock, Gordon, Greene, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Henry, Irwin, Jackson, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jenkins, Lamar, Lincoln, Lumpkin, Madison, McDuffie, Mitchell, Monroe, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Newton, Oconee, Paulding, Polk, Rabun, Richmond, Rockdale, Spalding, Sumter, Taliaferro, Tift, Twiggs, Walker, Walton, Warren, Washington, White, Worth

The Lighthouse Lymphedema Network has established the Bandages and Garment Fund to help individuals with lymphedema purchase the garments required to maintain the reduction gained from Complete Decongestive Therapy, the only treatment method available for lymphedema. Lymphedema is a condition approximately 50% of breast cancer patients will develop, and the garments are often not covered by health insurance.

Loving Arms

Support Services for Breast Cancer Patients in Cobb, Bartow, Cherokee, Douglas, Paulding, Pickens, and Carroll Counties
Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Cobb, Douglas, Paulding, Pickens

Project description – This program exists to meet multiple needs of the family as a whole and to offer wraparound care including assistance with utility bills, groceries, gas, and transportation. Services also include hygiene items, wigs, weekly support groups, medical products, prescriptions, and durable medical goods

Mercy Care Foundation on behalf of Mercy Care

Mercy Care’s Breast and Cervical Cancer Program
Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Dekalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Rockdale

Mercy Care’s goal for BCCP is to increase the early detection of breast cancer by providing a continuum of care that addresses the economic, cultural, and linguistic barriers to care often faced by low-income minority women. Anticipated outcomes include increased understanding of the importance of breast cancer prevention, including self-breast examination, clinical breast exams and mammograms; increased access to preventative and clinical services; and detection of any potential abnormalities through clinical exams and screening mammograms.

Northside Hospital Transportation Assistance

Transportation Assistance for Underserved Women Living In Or Outside Metro Atlanta for Screening and Diagnostic Breast Imaging
Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Cherokee, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, Dawson, Dekalb, Douglas, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Fulton, Gilmer, Gordon, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Haralson, Henry, Jackson, Lumpkin, Meriwether, Murray, Newton, Pickens, Rabun, Rockdale, Spalding, Tift, Towns, Union, Upson, Walker, Walton, White

This project provides transportation assistance and increases access to breast screening and diagnostic services for medically underserved patients, who already experience health disparities due to lack of health insurance and financial resources. This project will focus on African American and Hispanic women, who tend to have lower breast cancer screening rates but higher mortality rates, residing inside and outside metro Atlanta.

Northside Hospital Cancer Institute

Breast Diagnostic Services for Underserved Women Living in Metro Atlanta- Programs Inside & Outside Metro Atlanta
NH- Inside Metro Atlanta
Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Dekalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Newton, Rockdale, Spalding
NH- Outside Metro Atlanta
Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Clarke, Dawson, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Habersham, Hall, Haralson, Jackson, Lumpkin, Meriwether, Murray, Muscogee, Pickens, Rabun, Tift, Towns, Union, Upson, Walker, Walton, White

The Breast Diagnostic Services for Underserved Women project aims to detect breast cancer earlier and reduce the number of late stage disease diagnosed in underserved women with a focus on women of Hispanic or African American descent who live both inside and outside the metro-Atlanta area. Support from It’s The Journey provides free diagnostic services to underserved/uninsured women who live below 300% of the federal poverty level.

Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation: Breast Health Center

Comprehensive Breast Care: Screening & Diagnostics
Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Stephens, Taliaferro, Walton, Wilkes

The Comprehensive Breast Care Program aims to offer early detection of breast cancer in northeast Georgia with superior diagnostic tools. Services include mobile mammography, screening and diagnostic services, and a High-Risk Breast Cancer Clinic.

Piedmont Athens Regional Foundation: Loran Smith Center for Cancer Support

Comprehensive Breast Care Program: Support Services
Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Habersham, Hart, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Stephens, Taliaferro, Walton, Wilkes

The Comprehensive Breast Care Program provides numerous support services for breast cancer patients, including linking screenings, diagnostics, inpatient care and treatments with the support services that are the hallmark of the Loran Smith Center. These services include both group and individual support services, genetic counseling and testing, and lymphedema, hair and other prostheses services through the “Beautiful You” boutique.

Piedmont Healthcare Foundation: Piedmont Atlanta Hospital

Fighting Breast Cancer through Genetics Program
Bartow, Bibb, Carroll, Cherokee, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dekalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Monroe, Muskogee, Newton, Oglethorpe, Pickens, Rockdale

The Fighting Breast Cancer through Genetics Program at Piedmont Healthcare aims to provide cutting edge genetic testing services to medically underserved individuals. Genetic counseling and testing services are provided for patients at risk for hereditary breast cancer who are medically underserved or uninsured and live in the metropolitan Atlanta region.

Piedmont Healthcare Foundation: Newnan Hospital

PNH Breast Health Screening and Diagnostic Services for Uninsured Women
Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dekalb, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Heard, Henry, Lamar, Meriwether, Spalding, Troup

This program provides screening and diagnostic services free of charge for patients from Coweta County and the surrounding metropolitan Atlanta counties who otherwise would not be able to afford these procedures.

Southeast Georgia Rural Community Network

Southeast Georgia Breast Health Program
Appling, Candler, Emanuel, Evans, Jeff Davis, Tattnall, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Wheeler

The Southeast Georgia Breast Health Program provides community education outreach for breast health awareness and mammogram screening with some diagnostic services for the region’s vulnerable women. Services will target low income (200% of federal poverty level) and uninsured residents of a ten-county area in southeast Georgia.

The Cancer Foundation

Financial Assistance Program
Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Habersham, Hart, Jackson, Jasper, Lumpkin, Madison, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Putnam, Rabun, Stephens, Taliaferro, Towns, Union, Walton, White, Wilkes

The Financial Assistance Program provides emergency monetary assistance to individuals undergoing breast cancer treatment who are experiencing an immediate financial crisis because they cannot pay for basic life needs such as rent, utilities, medication, or transportation.

TurningPoint Breast Cancer Rehabilitation

Increase Access to Specialized Breast Cancer Rehabilitation
This project is open virtually to all counties in Georgia.

TurningPoint addresses the critical needs of breast cancer survivors through an individually tailored collaboration of physical therapy, lymphedema screening and management, exercise, oncology massage therapy and psychosocial support.

United in Pink, Inc

Kids in Pink Programming
Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Peach, Twiggs

‘Kids in Pink’ programs address the ripple effect caused by changes in the family routines and roles due to a breast cancer diagnosis as seen through the eyes of a child. United in Pink is committed to addressing the unmet needs of each child and family through our summer camp, play therapy and counseling partnership, family events, and other kids programming as allowed throughout the year.

University Health Care Foundation

Barrier Busters Reloaded: Removing Barriers to Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnostic Exams
Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington, Wilkes

The goal of the Barrier Busters program is to address the main barriers preventing women from participating in routine breast cancer screenings. The barriers the program will address are lack of access, financial disparities, and follow-through related to initial breast cancer screening and diagnostic imaging.

Wellstar Foundation

Reducing Late Stage Breast Cancer
Butts, Clayton, Coweta, Dekalb, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry
Wellstar Legacy
Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Cobb, Doherty, Floyd, Fulton, Paulding, Pickens
Spalding Regional Hospital
Butts, Clayton, Henry, Lamar, Pike, Spalding, Upson

The Reducing Late Stage Breast Cancer programs provide free screening mammograms and diagnostic services for women and men who lack access to or are unable to afford these life-saving services.