Cancer Screening, Outreach and Education Programs
Community Educational Workshops
The Community Outreach & Engagement (COE) team offers free cancer education workshops for community organizations, faith-based organizations (churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, etc.) and at schools throughout HICCC’s catchment area. Workshops are available both virtually and in-person, in English and Spanish, and are designed to meet the unique needs of each audience. Whether you are interested in hosting a workshop on a specific topic or exploring what would best serve your community, our health educators will work with you to develop a program that is relevant, engaging, and culturally responsive.
Our workshops cover a wide range of cancer prevention and early detection topics, including healthy nutrition, tobacco and lung cancer, HPV and cancer, environmental risk factors, cancer genetics, and healthy lifestyle habits. We also offer customizable workshops on cancer screening and can adapt presentations to focus on the screening guidelines, prevention strategies, and health concerns most relevant to your community.
Manhattan Cancer Services Program (MCSP)
The MCSP provides community and population-based education to address the importance of early detection, engages community organization to promote early cancer detection services to high need areas, enrolls uninsured individuals in free breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening and diagnostic services, and provides case management services. COE and the MCSP work together to refer community members to free or low-cost breast, cervical, colorectal and lung cancer screening services.
Contact: 212-851-4516
Staten Island Partnerships
COE works closely with key partners Dr. Ginny Mantello (Staten Island Borough President’s Office) and Dr. Ana Mendez (Richmond University Medical Center) to facilitate skin cancer risk reduction and HPV vaccination uptake in Staten Island. Through a previous grant from the NY State Department of Health and Health Research, Inc. called Cancer Prevention in Action (CPiA), COE provided free sunscreen, shade, signage, and training to community organizations and outdoor sites throughout Staten Island, as well as 1-on-1 education with healthcare providers about HPV vaccination. With our partners, COE continues to provide education on these topics throughout the borough.
COE also works with Weill Cornell Medicine to bring a lung cancer screening van to organizations throughout Staten Island, which has some of the highest rates of lung cancer and smoking in NYC. The van provides screening for those eligible at patients’ convenience and aims to reduce lung cancer deaths throughout the city.
The New York City Cancer Collaborative (NYCCC)
The New York City Cancer Collaborative (NYCCC) is a partnership of the offices of Community Outreach and Engagement from academic and hospital cancer centers and supporting organizations in New York City. Partners include:
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center of Columbia University
- Mount Sinai
- Einstein/Montefiore
- NYU Langone
- Memorial Sloan Kettering
- Weill Cornell
- NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- New York City Community-based organizations
Members of the NYCCC work together to share data from their individual community health needs assessments and to share their strategies and materials on educational outreach with other members.