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COVERING MY SISTERS INC

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN

40%

More likely to die of breast cancer than white women and are twice as likely to die if they are over the age of 50.

Cancer Disparities

31%

Breast cancer mortality rate - the highest of any U.S. racial or ethnic group.

Breast Cancer Facts

OUR MISSION

Covering My Sisters INC is committed to supporting African American Women diagnosed with breast cancer and providing breast health education to women. The organization was born out of a need for the African American women diagnosed with breast cancer, to connect with women that look like them and to have a place to talk about their struggles/concerns with their sisters.
Our goal is to decrease African American breast cancer disparity through education, empowerment, and advocacy, one person at a time.

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OUR SERVICES

Our services are designed by survivors for survivors to offer wholistic support to African American women fighting and surviving cancer.

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Advocacy

We offer advocacy and support to survivors as they journey through breast cancer treatments, therapies and coninued care.

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Education

We provide education to African American breast cancer survivors, empowering survivors to make informed decisions about their breast cancer treatments and therapies.

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Long-term support

Breast cancer survivorship is on the rise and survivors are living decades past their diagnosis, especially persons diagnosed with localized breast cancer (Nih.org, 2024) There are multiple long term side effects of past treatments and survivors report feeling misunderstood after treatment, having to pretend they are well, when they are not, “friends and family members think after treatment we are ok, but our problems continue. Long term survivors need ongoing care, support and medical follow up.

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Rick Warren

“Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You may not be where you want to be neither are you where you used to be.”

COVERING MY SISTERS COMMUNITY

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Montly Support Group

Support groups are held for survivors only to build relationships, support one another, receive information and resources. The support group is for breast cancer survviors who have been newly diagnosed, in active treatment, metastatic diagnosis, long term and out of treatment.

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Survivor Navigators (SN)

African American Women need to know what to do when diagnosed with breast cancer and they want to connect with someone like them who's "been there".

SN's are the face of African American breast cancer survivorship.
SN's provide education and assistance for women diagnosed with breast cancer.
SN's help educated and emplower newly diagnosed survivors in diagnosis and treatment decisions utilizing educational resources and the covering my sister survivor tool kit.
SN's help survivors navigate their treatment issues and life's journey.

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Sisters Reaching Sisters

African American Women want to connect with someone like them who's "been there". Survivor advocates have survived/are surving breast cancer and understand what newly diagnosed survivors are going through and the ongoing struggles of survivors.

Sisters Reaching Sisters program:

SPN's are breast cancer survivors who provide support for women diagnosed with breast cancer.
Newly diagnosed survviors connect with other African American survivors by identifying with experiences and seeing them as hope.
Survivor avocates provide individual support to help you cope with issues relevant to treatment, side effects, family and friend issues.
Connect survivor advocates with survviors through telephone conversations or in-person visits.

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SERVING OUR COMMUNITY

Covering My Sisters INC is dedicated to community engagement and advancing our mission through practical initiatives that uplift and empower our community in the fight against cancer.

Community Events

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Celebrating survivors through events, activities and fundraisers.

Volunteer Programs

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Helps up promote our organizations mission and goals while supporting survivors by offering programs and events for them including educational programs.

Scholarship Fund

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We offer Financial scholarships to survivors. Scholarships are paid only to survivors and their families.

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SURVIVOR TOOLKIT

Empowerment through Education

African American women with newly diagnosed breast cancer believe that chemotherapy is necessary, however, they lack knowledge about their disease and why chemotherapy is recommended to them. Our toolkit provides the knowledge to help make the best decision for you and your survival.

The Covering My Sisters Toolkit Includes:

Education to make informed decisions on treatment, treatment team, and follow-up care.
Guide for "what-ifs" treatment
Mammograms & Long Term Treatment

Board of Directors

The board is the governance responsible for success of Covering My Sisters INC., by providing direction for management and supervising the companies affairs. Covering My Sisters INC. charge is to ensure that the organization follows and abides by the bylaws, and to raise funds for programming.