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Sustaining a Safety Net Breast and Cervical Cancer Detection Program
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 17, Number 2, May 2006
- pp. 20-30
- 10.1353/hpu.2006.0080
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For the past six years, the Chicago-area faith-based Reach Out Consortium has mobilized low-income uninsured and underinsured African American women and Latinas to seek screening for breast and cervical cancer. The funding history for this program illustrates how funds for a small community-based program were leveraged into a broader program, and that grew to serve low-income women across the state. Further, as the program reached more and more uninsured women, community activism led to a further state investment in services for the uninsured. Program sustainability and expansion depended on a combination of public and private competitive grants and grassroots advocacy.