Camden & Burlington County Cancer Coalitions

Cooper CEED, Camden County Dept of Health & Sr. Srvcs, Camden County College, and the Cancer Coalition will provide Cervical Cancer Education for students on two campuses:

January 26, 2011
Camden Campus

January 31, 2011
Blackwood Campus

Please check college bulletin for more information.

http://www.camdencc.edu/

Burlington County Cancer Coalition Quarterly Meeting
10:00am - 12:00pm
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center/Burlington Campus
Willingboro, NJ

Please call Joye Rozier, Coordinator at 856.663.3998 to RSVP

Camden County Cancer Coalition Quarterly Meeting will be held:
January 6, 2010
11:00am - 1:00pm
CPAC 6991 North Park Drive (Cooper River Park)
Pennsauken, NJ 08109

Please call Joye Rozier, Coordinator at 856.663.3998 to RSVP

We want to extend to Jean Mouch our heart felt thanks and gratitude for being an integral part of the Camden County Cancer Coalition. Jean recently retired and we hope and pray that she will have a wonderful future in the next chapter of her beautiful life. Thanks Jean and congrats.

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In Camden City New Jersey

Camden City organizer is Sean Brown
Sean M. Brown
C. 856-236-2705
m. http://www.myspace.com/smb723
b. http:f/camdenfreepress.blogspot.com

City of Camdn Mayor Gwendolyn Faison
and the Department of Health and Human Services Office on Aging
Presents A

Minority Month Health Fair

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

City Hall Plaza 520 Market Street Camden NJ
10AM to 2PM

Agencies/organizations can registerby contacting 856-757-7339/7228

April 23, 2008 Breakfast Meeting - 8:30am to 10:30 am Planned parenthood of SNJ, 317 Broadway, Camden, NJ

July 16, 2008 Lunch Meeting - 11:30am to 1:30pm Camden County DHHS - DiPiero Center, Blackwood NJ

October 29, 2008 Breakfast Meetin - 8:30 to 10:30am Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, 1600 Haddon Ave, Camden, NJ

The American Cancer Society, Eastern Division, is currently seeking ‘Access Stories’

In 1990, the ACS national Board of Directors set forth goals to reduce cancer incidence by 25% and cancer mortality by 50% by the year 2015. We now recognize that we will not meet those goals unless everyone with the potential for a cancer diagnosis has access to preventative services and appropriate screening. In addition, every person with a cancer diagnosis must have access to appropriate treatments.

Personal stories have the potential to demonstrate the gravity of a the current healthcare crisis. ACS is seeking the stories of individuals, diagnosed with cancer, who lack access to health car or who face financial devastation because of their status as uninsured of underinsured. This includes individuals who have insurance, but have found it insufficient to meet their medical needs

All stories collected in this project will be used in future efforts as we advocate for access to quality healthcare.

as a volunteer with the American Cancer Society, you can help to identify individuals whose stories may be compelling examples of the weaknesses in our current health system.

If you know of an individual with story, please contact:

Jess Werder
Ph: 518-454-4053
Fx: 518-482-4058
access-stories@cancer.org

Visit http://www.cancer.org/access to learn more about the American Cancer Society’s campaign for Universal Access

The Camden County Cancer Coalition is the county’s leadership group and network for helping to implement the first ever, 2002 New Jersey Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan (http://www.state.nj.us/health/ccp/ccc_plan.htm).  The coalition has grown naturally out of the work of the Cancer Education and Early Detection (CEED – http://www.state.nj.us/health) Advisory Committee which began in 1997.  The coalition has built on that committed membership from over 30 regular participants, and desires to recruit members from all of the leading circles of influence for cancer care and cancer prevention.

Meetings
The Camden County Cancer Coalition meets on a quarterly schedule during the year.  We rotate venue between Barry D. Brown Health Education Center at Virtua Hospital in Voorhees, to Cooper Hospital in Camden City,

Our Mission

The Mission of the Camden County Cancer Coalition is to effectively and efficiently support cancer prevention, education, early detection, and advocacy for all residents in the county to help reduce the cancer burden.

Camden County Cancer Coalition Plan for 2006
Goal #1
Serve as a forum to bring together information sharing and project/program collaboration on cancer care efforts of both public and private agencies and health providers.2004 Camden County Cancer Capacity and Needs Assessment

Objectives include building a web site for information sharing and project/service coordination; having a part-time coordinator role; forming 4 workgroups.

Workgroup on Eliminating Health Disparities / CEED for Uninsured and Underinsured persons, for minority groups and for those living in poverty

Workgroup on Camden City Urban Cancer Initiative together with the American Cancer Society

Workgroup on Tri-County area of Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester Counties’ Cancer Coalition Issues

Goal #2
Identify poriorities from 2004 Capacity and Needs Assessment:
e.g. Increase cancer screening
e.g. Efforts to decrease smoking
e.g. provide educational and informational events for providers

Goal #1 Objective Achieved January to December 2006

Goal #2 Objectives achieved in 2006

1. Eliminating Health disparities / CEED Workgroup did 24 screening days with Camden County DHHS “Get Screened, Stay Healthy, Stay Alive” Campaign; 16 were held in Camden City!

2. Lung Cancer / Smoking Cessation Workgroup wrote first grant to support expansion of YouthQuit2Win groups in four high schools. Submited but not received!

3. Tri-County Workgroup has presented firs CME event for 119 primary care providers. Tri-County will continue as a group.

4. Full Partner with the ACS Camden City Cancer Initiative with Eliminating Health Disparities (See above) and Worksite Wellness strategies
-Employee survey of Cancer screening and why they have not achieved their yearly screening! Grant for Palliative Care sumitted by not received, to help Camden City Residents

How can you help us?
Visit our contact page to learn more about how to:
Become a member of the Camden County Cancer Coalition
Become active in one of the coalition Work Groups
Attend events and fund raising activities
Become a speaker and/or support person for Cancer Prevention, Education and Early Detection