National Cancer Awareness -- Health Fair

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The Tournament, Workshops & Health Fair include the following components:
Prostate Awareness Basketball Tournaments for men 50 and over, Men 30-49 and women 21+
Prostate Education (and Quality of Life) Health Fairs
On-Site Free Prostate Cancer Screenings with local collaborative follow-up coordinated by local host cancer center
Prostate Cancer Awareness conferences and workshops for lay and professionals
Coordination of on-site support and recruitment for Prostate Cancer research
Prostate Cancer and Cancer Clinical Trials Education Conferences and Lectures for community leaders, health professionals, organizational and religious leaders.
"Fabulous at 50 to Sexy at 60"
"From FABULOUS 50 TO SEXY AT 60"

The Over 50 Black Man's Guide to Sexual Health & Sexuality

A HOW-TO Guide to Quality of Life HEALTH AND SEXUALITY
FOR MEN and their PARTNERS.

ATTENTION African American men 40 and over: If you're not a MAN , YOU KNOW ONE. If you're not 40, YOU WILL BE …

AND
YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS THIS FREE MINI CONFERENCE with five workshops for men and their partners

CARETAKERS WELCOME for discussion of HOMECARE
Conference Focus
* Diabetes * Cardiovascular Heart Disease
* Hypertension * Cholesterol
* Prostate Cancer *BPH * Erectile Dysfunction

…Learn how diseases that affect men over 50 make a difference in the quality of life and intimacy

...FREE Breakfast and Lunch to participants
...FREE Parking and easy access to facility
...Educational literature on all Disease Segments
...OPEN Question and Answer Segments for you to ask YOUR own questions
...FREE SCREENING: Diabetes, PSA (Prostate), Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure and
...FREE Obesity and Smoking Counseling

Partner or BOOK A MINI CONFERENCE IN YOUR CITY

Call 1-800-677-8429

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The Cancer Survivor Guide Series (and Prostate Cancer 101 Survivor Guide Seminar) is part of a community-based partnership which utilizes community resources, leaders and networks to educate community and media participants about cancer and the importance of clinical trials education. NPFR has in place PC CaAN (Prostate Cancer Coalition of African American Networks), and CBO Coalitions for ongoing distribution of educational materials, articles, speakers and African American health resources.

"What an absolute joy it is to recognize and discuss with you the plans and progress of the National Physician & Family Referral Project in establishing a coherent network of community-based contacts for partnering in human genome research. I am especially excited by your plans to develop the Community-Based Organizations Coalition to promote and increase the participation of African Americans in biomedical research projects. Congratulations also on your success initiating the web-based physicians and African American families database as a resource for connecting "grass-roots" community based organizations with the biomedical research community and the new Prostate Cancer Survivor Guide Seminars Series.

Here's hoping that "your cup will overflow" and together we can empower our community to become partners in human genome research to FIND THE CAUSE of prostate cancer. Best wishes for continued success."

Georgia M. Dunston, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
The National Human Genome Center, Howard University



There are three community components in each event:

Survey related to disease information and access
Survey looking at knowledge and understanding; fears and apprehensions about clinical trials
Follow-up programs for organizations who volunteer to be a part of the CBO Coalition to distribute, print, publish and circulate educational information about African American health issues and educational materials about clinical trials and disease and product breakthroughs.
NEW!! Prostate Cancer 101 Dinner Lecture Series
A NEW program designed for patient education featuring doctors, and pharmaceutical companies discussing prostate cancer treatment options, BPH, Erectile Dysfunction and quality of life.

HOW CAN WE PARTICIPATE IN THE RESEARCH AND NOT JUST THE TREATMENT??

Specialists in the field will provide education on research participation readily available in our community.

Background and Description of Program

50 Hoops® and The National Physician and Family Referral (NPFR) Project has updated its program to address a broader scope of educational offerings related to Urological cancers affecting African Americans. The 2005 - 2006 community outreach includes prostate, kidney, colorectal, lung and breast cancers. Some of these cancers are becoming more prevalent among African American families, therefore, community participation in the educational process will be heavily addressed.

Over the past four years, 50 Hoops®/NPFR has partnered and networked with dozens of African American and Cancer organizations to “help find the cause” of prostate cancer. Our partnership with the National Human Genome Center at Howard and other Human Genome Centers has offered us a vehicle for recruitment of African American families with a history of prostate cancer who volunteer to be a part of this historic undertaking.

Our four-year data clearly defines family history (of prostate cancer and other diseases) which affect African Americans. It is because of this data that NPFR’s outreach has expanded.

NPFR has developed an “in your face” approach to Urban cancer education and outreach, which is unmatched (in outreach scope) by any other organization targeting African Americans. Our partnerships with medical educational groups, hospitals, cancer organizations, celebrities, labor forces, State-wide African American Expos and conventions, allows us to communicate effectively among these networks.

In 2004, NPFR began forming ongoing CBO (Community Based Organization) Coalitions in cities with high African American populations, utilizing existing local cancer and community health organizations in our target communities. NPFR also formed "PC CaAN" (pronounced PC CAN), which stands for Prostate Cancer Coalition of African American Networks, which offers a strong base for educational grants targeting cancer and racial disparities.

The Prostate Cancer 101 Survivor Guide Seminar Series focuses upon these new community-based partnerships and will utilize all of it’s resources and networks to educate communities around the country about prostate and other cancers, and develop strategies for ongoing organizational education through constituencies.

These sessions will be facilitated by Medical Professionals, Local Celebrities, Survivors, their wives, and the widows of prostate cancer patients. Our objective is to encourage ongoing strategies for support of local strategies for revealing racial disparities which prevent individuals from taking the initiative to seek educational tools available within the community, and to begin to evaluate and coordinate this concept with participants.

The Survivor Guide Seminars bring in celebrities, community leaders, media and churches to promote education and "health" networking within their own organization. Also neighborhood outreach programs are encouraged and focus groups to gauge racial disparities. These tools will be designed to promote better communications between African Americans and health care organizations, utilizing local leader constituencies as substructure for this outreach.

The overall strategy includes (1) Educating key community and religious leaders , as community partners, to help design models for future community participation and engagement in this process through the Seminars. (2) Utilizing the NPFR 's Community Based Organizations (CBO Coalition) and the PC CaAN to resource these constituencies. (3) Educating Leaders' constituencies in acquisition of tools available within the health care system for understanding prevention and treatment options for prostate cancer.

Local Urologists and medical professionals working in hospitals and university medical centers in prostate cancer (and other ethnic diseases) will assist in facilitating this Series and helping to design better outreach to break down barriers of racial disparities within their communities.

A Health Fair component implemented within this Series will include a variety of screening and education about Urological cancers and diseases critically affecting African American health.