WOMEN’S 5K CLASSIC 2018-19 FUNDED GRANT PROGRAMS
Allentown YMCA – BEAUTIFUL YOU BREAST CANCER RECOVERY PROGRAM – providing a support group for women with cancer, group exercise classes including yoga, aqua fitness, Zumba, cooking classes, health lectures, seminars and some memberships contact person -Dona Obal dobal@gv-ymca.org
Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center – organizing a support group for LGBT Cancer Survivors and their caregivers given by Cancer Support Community contact person – Atticus Ranck atticus@bradburysullivancenter.org
Cancer Support Community providing free Breast and GYN cancer support groups. These regularly scheduled groups emphasize tools for a healthy lifestyle and educational workshops as well as to bring hope to women diagnosed with Breast and GYN cancers, their family members and caretakers. Contact person- Amanda Buss abuss@cancersupportglv.org
Girls on the Run of Lehigh Valley inspiring girls from grades 3-8 while building confidence and self esteem through running also utilizing a lifestyle curriculum contact person Lisa Fiore fiorel@diakon.org.
St. Luke’s Gnaden Huetten Campus– providing Screening and Diagnostic Mammography for un and underinsured women. Available to St. Luke’s patients. contact person Elisa Steigerwalt Radiology Manager Elisa.Steigerwalt@sluhn.org
Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network providing lymphedema garments to un or underinsured female cancer patients who require these compressiongarments. Contact person James Kelley JKelley @gsrh.org or Denise Rios Drios@gsrh.org
Lehigh Valley Health Network -Cedar Crest offering financial support to women with recurrent or metastatic cancer through a Fall Back Fund. A program also funds a partnership between LVHN and Memorial Sloan Kettering which could lead to personalized precision genomic therapy for women with advanced breast or gynecologic cancers. Available to Lehigh Valley Health Network female cancer patients. Contact person Kathleen Sevedge Kathleen.sevedge@lvhn.org
Lehigh Valley Health Network – Muhlenberg offering compression garments for women with Cancer Related Lymphedema if insurance does not cover the cost. Available to Lehigh Valley Health Network female cancer patients. Contact person Dorothy Stehly Dorothy.stehly@lvhn.org
Planned Parenthood offering cancer screening services such as pap tests and colposcopies Contact Person Bekah Eichelberger beichelberger@ppkeystone.org
St. Luke’s Hospital – Sacred Heart Campus provides a Reaching out for Healthy Women Program by providing through the Parish Nurse Project an educational component in several languages of the importance of testing and offering clinical services such as pap smears and screening mammograms for the underserved population. Available to St.Luke’s female patients Contact person Deborah Gilbert Deborah.Gilbert@sluhn.org
St. Luke’s Hospital – Cancer Center provides funding to the Cancer Compassion Fund to female cancer patients during their cancer journey by giving money for essential purchases and bills which are not covered by insurance and are necessary while undergoing treatment. Available to St. Luke’s female cancer patients. Contact Person – Carla Arbushites Carla.Arbushites@sluhn.org