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| Last updated on June 24, 2008 |
To empower women with cancer to be active and informed consumers and survivors; to provide community for women with cancer and their supporters; to educate the general community about cancer; and to be actively involved in the struggle for a life-affirming, cancer-free society.
Description:
The WCRC’s services and programs are tailored to the needs of diverse populations of women and delivered with cultural competence by staff and volunteers who reflect the population they are serving. Each year, the WCRC serves 4,000 women with cancer and their supporters and provides community outreach and education to more than 15,000 people.
The WCRC’s Sister to Sister Program provides African American/Black women a forum for discussion about cancer, a place for support and disseminating resource and support information. The Latina Services Program serves Spanish-speaking women and their supporters throughout Alameda and Contra Costa County, including on site at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center and in clients’ homes in Contra Costa County (via the Spanish Speaking Women's Cancer Initiative (SSWCI)) and at Highland Hospital in Oakland. WCRC’s services and activities are outlined below.
History:
The Women’s Cancer Resource Center (WCRC) is a cancer advocacy, education, information, and support organization serving women with cancer and their supporters throughout the East Bay. Before the WCRC was founded in 1986, no local agencies focused on the needs of women with cancer. There was no helpline, no assistance to low-income women, no peer counseling and no centralized source of information on alternative and mainstream treatments. This changed when Jackie Winnow was diagnosed with breast cancer. She and a group of women living with cancer rallied to fill the void in information and support available to them. The founders had a radical idea: Women are entitled to information and support. From this small group, the Women’s Cancer Resource Center emerged to provide direct services to women with cancer and to advocate for broad changes in the health care system.
Contact person: Sarah Kurhajetz, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (510) 601-4045
Address:
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5741 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94609
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Web Site: http://www.wcrc.org
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