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by Derrick Vander Waal
SIOUX CENTER – Promise Community Health Center’s efforts to increase awareness and to prevent breast cancer in northwest Iowa will be enhanced for the fourth straight year by a grant from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Siouxland Affiliate.
SIOUX CENTER – Promise Community Health Center’s efforts to increase awareness and to prevent breast cancer in northwest Iowa will be enhanced for the fourth straight year by a grant from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Siouxland Affiliate.
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| Promise Community Health Center of Sioux Center has offered various educational group sessions about breast cancer prevention with the help of grants from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Siouxland Affiliate. |
Promise was awarded $18,218 in the latest grant round.
The grant again will support the health center’s Sister to Sister (Hermana a Hermana) project.
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| Promise Community Health Center and the Dordt College volleyball team has co-hosted a Pink Out Breast Cancer Awareness event, the signature event supported through the Susan G. Komen for the Cure grant. Dordt coach Chad Hanson (left) has provided great support, and Pastor Verlyn and Sue Boone served as guest coaches at last fall’s event. |
“We are grateful for the continued partnership of the Siouxland Affiliate and their belief that our work in the community is worthwhile and impacting their work to end breast cancer,” said Brittany Hamm, clinic manager for Promise. “We are also grateful for the continued partnerships we have had in the community for our Sister to Sister project.”
Promise will use the grant funding toward education efforts for breast health and reduction of the risk of breast cancer in the target area of Sioux and Lyon counties through public events, radio and newspaper advertising, and small-group sessions with women in various communities. Community Health Partners of Sioux County, Sioux County Latino Health Coalition and Health Services of Lyon County have been instrumental in bringing groups of women together to learn and in assisting outreach efforts.
Free mammogram screenings will be provided to women ages 40-64 who do not have insurance coverage for that service. Sioux Center Health and Hegg Memorial Health Center Avera have served as locations for Promise’s participants to receive their mammograms.
The Pink Out Breast Cancer Awareness event that Promise has co-hosted with Dordt College’s volleyball team has become the signature event supported through the Susan G. Komen grant. This year, the event will be Oct. 7 during Dordt’s match in Sioux Center against Dakota Wesleyan University.
Promise has been awarded $116,000 over four years through the grant program.
“We look forward to being able to provide this significant project again due to the support of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Siouxland Affiliate,” Hamm said.
Promise Community Health Center, headquartered in Sioux Center, is the only Federally Qualified Health Center in the far northwest corner of Iowa. To learn more, visit www.promisechc.org.
