QUESTION
Council Member Schulman Inquires on Mobile Mammography Van Outreach
0:39:02
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Council Member Lynn Schulman inquires about the scheduling and outreach methods of the mobile mammography van, focusing on how it reaches communities with the highest rates of breast cancer mortality. The response details partnerships with community organizations for hosting and promotion, outlining a process for scheduling screenings, conducting street outreach, and providing navigation for those with positive diagnoses. Schulman expresses interest in council partnership to enhance outreach efforts, sharing her personal experience with breast cancer and stressing the importance of screenings.
Speaker 2
0:39:02
When you talked about the mammogram van, like how often does that go out?
0:39:07
How is how are the arrangements made for where it goes?
0:39:11
And can you just give some background and details on that?
Speaker 4
0:39:15
Absolutely.
0:39:17
The partner that we work with who sends out the mobile vans, what they do is they work with the community based organizations that we partner earth already in the neighborhoods that have the highest rate of breast cancer mortality.
0:39:30
They contact those community based organizations they described for them and asked them what are some of the dates and locations, host locations that would be willing to host the mobile van.
0:39:42
Then what they do is actually develop materials that the community based organizations and other partners, including elected officials, and other partners in those communities can send out to let women know in the neighborhood know the date that the van will be present on that particular site.
0:40:00
And then they also do street outreach when they're doing the mobile van screening.
0:40:06
And then they host the mobile van screening for up to 20 women, at least a minimum of 20 women for the date that they are doing that particular screening site.
0:40:18
And then for any women whose mammograms are positive, they also have navigators who help navigate those women to the appropriate care that they need.
0:40:27
So I think that's the main process, but we can share more information.
Speaker 2
0:40:31
Yeah.
0:40:31
I'd like to get information on what we're you do it and went, you know, and all of that because I I wanna see how I can partner and those of us in the council can partner on that.
0:40:41
Because that's something that's very important.