Breast Cancer Connections

The Gabriella Patser Program
(formerly Community Breast Health Project)

Provides breast cancer screening and detection for low-income, uninsured women in the Bay Area under 40, who have a significant family history or present with a suspicious breast health issue.  The program primarily serves women in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.

Breast Cancer Emergency Fund

Provides emergency financial assistance to low-income San Franciscans suffering with breast cancer to cover basic human needs including housing, utilities and medical expenses, thereby, lessening their financial burden.

Breast Health Access for Women with Disabilities (BHAWD) at Alta Bates Hospital

Provides free clinical breast exams, self-breast exam education and training, and mammogram referral when needed, education and training for women with disabilities. All services are provided by a specially trained breast health nurse in an accessible exam room and on a universal accessible exam table. Translation services are available.

Canyon Ranch
Thriving After Breast Cancer

This is a thoughtful group experience fostering healing, hope and vitality. Led by caring medical professionals at renowned Canyon Ranch in Lenox, MA, this is a powerful program for women who are living, loving and still laughing. Hear the latest, most effective techniques for thriving with the help of medical options, lifestyle choices, stress reduction, nutrition, exercise and more.

Casting for Recovery
Healing Retreat

Provides women whose lives have been profoundly affected by breast cancer with the opportunity to experience physical, emotional and spiritual healing through a fly-fishing retreat. The retreat is open to women living in the Bay Area. 

The Ceres Community Project
Youth Nourishing Life One Meal at a Time

Provides nurturing and nourishment for families facing health challenges in Sonoma County through an innovative community project that teaches students to prepare food and gain confidence as they help families to receive healthy sustenance.

Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic

Integrative Support for Low-income Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer

Provides integrative services, including physical, emotional, nutritional and spiritual suport for low-income women with metastatic breast cancer. The two clinics (Oakland and San Francisco) provide services to women throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Circulo de Vida

Women’s Support Program

Improves the quality of life for San Francisco Latinas living with breast cancer, and their families. Grant funds will provide support, translation and advocacy services to newly diagnosed Latinas.

Coastal Health Alliance

Comprehensive Breast Health Care Access

Offers medically underserved women in western Marin and Sonoma counties access to a comprehensive breast health program that provides education, assistance in accessing mammograms, transportation, support groups and outreach.

Community Action Marin
Marin Asian Advocacy Project Breast Cancer Awareness Program

Provides breast cancer education, translation, referrals and support services to primarily low-income immigrants from Southeast Asia, China, Korea and the former Russian Republics.

Community Health Clinic Ole
Breast Cancer Referral Services

Provides outside referral services in Napa County, to low-income, uninsured patients whose initial breast exams or mammograms indicate the need for further screenings

Hospice by the Bay

To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation Fund for Supplementary & Complementary Care and Open Access Initiative

Provides additional support services, including physical and emotional care, to end-stage breast cancer patients and their families.

Institute for Health & Healing
Guided Imagery & Therapeutic Massage

Provides an integrative approach that is holistic and comprehensive, enabling those living with breast cancer to reduce treatment-related side effects, minimize stress and enhance their immune system functions.

Kaiser Permanente

Member’s only website with health information and breast cancer discussion groups.

Latina Breast Cancer Agency
Mujeres Cuidando Mujeres/Women Caring for Women

Provides on-going breast health education and free screening services to low-income Latina women with little or no insurance living in San Mateo. Also assists Latinas over 40 to enroll in Every Woman Counts Cancer Detection program.

Marin Center for Independent Living
Breast Cancer Benefits and Advocacy Counseling

Enables underinsured, low income Marin residents diagnosed with breast cancer to take advantage of counseling, advocacy and case management, utilizing a uniform intake and tracking system among several Marin agencies that share information and referrals.

Marin Community Clinics
Breast Health Program

Provides funds for breast cancer preventive care and education for all adult female patients during at least one medical visit per year. 

Marin County Breast Cancer

Part of the Health and Human Services Epidemiology Program.

Marin General Hospital - Marin Cancer Institute
Breast Cancer Resource & Recovery Program

Provides services that are coordinated through the Marin Cancer Institute and the Breast Diagnostic and Imaging Center. The organization’s work encompasses prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and recovery from breast cancer.

Marin General Hospital - Marin Cancer Institute

To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation-Harbor Point Fund

Provides funds for breast cancer diagnostic screening including mammography and ultrasound for patients in Marin County.

Meals of Marin

Food Project for Patients Battling Breast Cancer

Prepares and delivers meals to patients and families battling breast cancer in Marin County.

National Cancer Institute

Breast cancer information from the National Cancer Institute, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health

Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Cancer Library

Healing Through Painting Breast Cancer Support Group

Provides support groups that utilize art as a creative expression for healing from breast cancer.

Shanti

Lifelines Breast Cancer Program

Delivers practical assistance and emotional support to women and men with breast cancer in San Francisco including financial assistance, meals, transportation, wellness workshops and more.

Southwest Community Health Center
Breast Health Support and Diagnostics for Unfunded Patients

Provides diagnostics for women under 40 with initial findings requiring diagnostic mammograms, sonograms and ultrasounds and who do not qualify for the State Cancer Detection Program

Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, Inc.

Vida Con Esperanza Latina Breast Cancer Support Group

Provides psychosocial support services for Spanish-speaking women with breast cancer in Southern Alameda County.  Vida Con Esperanza (Life with Hope) is a space where Latinas find culturally appropriate and linguistically sensitive breast cancer support services.

Women’s Cancer Resource Center
East Bay Breast Cancer Emergency Fund

Provides financial assistance to low income women with breast cancer who are currently in treatment and live in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties

Zero Breast Cancer (formerly Marin Breast Cancer Watch)
Adolescent Breast Cancer Prevention Education Project

Educates adolescents about breast cancer risk factors.  The project further developed the Breast Cancer and Environment Peer Education Tool Kit which is available on the organizations website and is promoted to schools and health educators in Marin, San Francisco and Alameda counties.