2007-08 Grantees 

The Acadiana Affiliate granted over $160,000 to fund the following programs in 2007:

Acadia Council on Aging, Inc.  Acadia Breast Cancer Awareness, Education and Support Program.  The Acadia Council on Aging will provide breast cancer awareness, education and support services to the elderly and low-income individuals and families in Acadia Parish.  This project will assist underserved individuals by (1) providing transportation services to clinics, medical visits and support groups related to breast cancer prevention and treatment; (2) providing weekly breast health education services to help build breast cancer awareness, education and promote breast screenings among African American women; (2) facilitating a monthly support group that provides education and emotional support for breast cancer survivors and their family; and (4) providing childcare through local providers to low-income individuals seeking breast cancer screening, treatment or attending breast cancer support groups.

Acadiana Medical Research Foundation.  Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program.  AMRF provides quality, no-cost breast and cervical cancer early-detection services to uninsured or underinsured, low- and moderate-income Louisiana women age 40 or over.  Special emphasis is given to reaching women who rarely or never receive screening services.

Faith House, Inc.  Education, Screening and Early Detection for Breast Cancer.  The project is involved with providing educational materials, screening methods and early detection for women who are in low socioeconomic, underserved and/or minority groups and live in primarily underserved areas.  The target population is women in situations of domestic violence who reside in or have resided in a temporary shelter.

Lafayette Community Health Care Clinic.  Mammograms for Life 2007.  The Lafayette Community Health Care Clinic is a non-profit organization that provides non-emergency medical, dental and pharmaceutical services at no charge to low to moderate income, working, uninsured residents of Lafayette Parish and develops programs to address community healthcare needs through collaborative partnerships.  Since 2002, grants from the Acadiana Affiliate have enabled the clinic to provide breast imaging procedures to its "at-risk" female patients through its "Mammograms for Life" program.

Miles Perret Cancer Services.  The Cancer Journey. The Miles Perret Center is a comprehensive resource center that provides support services to patients, family members and caregivers affected by cancer.  The center assists those fighting cancer from the point of diagnosis, through treatment and into survivorship.  The center's in-house scope of services includes emotional support, medication assistance, prescription assistance filing, rent assistance, utility assistance, support groups, wigs, hats, scarves, oral supplement support, medical supplies (including new prostheses and bras), durable medical equipment, educational programs, survivorship programs and access to the resource library, which includes an Internet-accessible computer.  All services are provided at no cost to any client.