Nigerian Nurse Helps African Immigrants Battle Breast Cancer
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Ifeanyi Anne Nwabukwu, RN, BSN, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
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A Doctor Delivers Multiple Acts of Human Kindness to Homeless Women
August 3, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
An elderly woman calls to me. I’ve know her for years. She has a Section 8 apartment. She has many medical conditions, and last year was treated for breast cancer. She has fought depression since her oldest son was put in jail. She needs me t ...
Community Health Leader Revives Life-Saving Program for Women
June 1, 2012 | Story
Program that rescues women from substance abuse, incarceration and poverty begins again.
Focus Group is First Phase in Coalition's Promotion of Breastfeeding in Black Communities
January 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition conducted eight focus groups to assess community health workers' knowledge of breastfeeding and lactation management and to learn how they perceived the value of using technology in their work.
African-American Hairstylists Enlisted as Lay Health Promoters in Eight Michigan Cities
June 22, 2007 | Program Result
The National Kidney Foundation of Michigan expanded a project to train hair stylists in African-American neighborhoods as lay health promoters to educate their clients about diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease.
Spanish-Speaking Women Targeted in Agency Expansion
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
Women Helping Women, a non-profit agency providing low-cost support and therapy services to women in central New Jersey, expanded its program to offer additional services and to reach a larger, more ethnically diverse population.
Chicago Project Delivers Support to Young Mothers-to-Be
April 11, 2008 | Program Result
Chicago Health Connection developed and implemented a four-year pilot project that used nonmedical birth assistants known as doulas to help low-income single teen mothers in high-risk Chicago neighborhoods.
Native Sisters Help Native American Women Overcome Obstacles to Breast Cancer Screening
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
In 1995-1996, Linda Burhansstipanov, M.S.P.H., Dr.P.H. at AMC Cancer Research Center in Denver, Colo., implemented and evaluated the effectiveness of Native American Women's Wellness through Awareness.