Current Grant Recipients

These projects have been selected by our independent Grant Review Panel as those that will have the greatest impact in serving uninsured or underinsured women in our service area. Please note that Susan G. Komen for the Cure® is not a direct service provider.

List of Current Community Grant Recipients

Ark Regional Services
Ark Regional Services provides monthly breast screenings for women with intellectual disabilities. The objective of this project is to ensure that the women who rely on Ark for assistance receive the best education, treatment and advance care possible in regard to their health. Most of these women lack the ability to perform self breast exams. Grant funds are used to assist with the cost of Ark staff who coordinate the clinic; and the Registered Nurses who help women understand the results and provide education about overall health. It is anticipated that over 45 women per month will benefit from this project.

Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department/Family Planning
The purpose of the program is to serve as a preventive health care resource to women in need. The program serves approximately 3,000 women a year. Ninety percent of these women fall below 150% of the federal poverty guidelines. An annual visit to the Family Planning clinic includes a clinical breast exam and instruction on doing monthly self-breast examinations. Most of these women are in need of a mammogram due to such risk factors as age or family history. Some of these women: do not have health insurance, or have a very high deductible, and/or do not qualify for any welfare assistance. These women often receive no follow-up care, thus increasing their risk of cancer. This grant will make it possible to provide the cost of mammograms and some follow-up care for some of these women.

Community Health Center of Wyoming
The Community Health Center of Central Wyoming (CHCCW) has utilized Komen funding to assist over 1000 women and men in accessing free breast health services. It is because of Komen funding that we are able to ensure our patients have access to free life-saving breast health services. As always, the CHCCW provides Komen services to the medically underserved so that no one has to live without comprehensive health care.. The CHCCW anticipates that 275 individuals will receive breast ultrasounds, and diagnostic and screening mammograms, and at least 400 individuals will be provided with breast health education.

Community Resource Center of Johnson County
The program will provide breast cancer education and awareness of screening opportunities available to women in three underserved counties in northeast Wyoming: Crook, Johnson and Weston. This project will provide an Outreach Specialist who will continue to cultivate already established partnerships, and recruit potentially eligible women for mammography and information about breast health. The Outreach Specialist will make site visits to three targeted counties at least one time each quarter, and will establish an ongoing presence through dissemination of educational literature.

Gorgeous Gals Gala
The program is initiated by the Worland Business and Professional Women, who meet with women, ages 30-80, who are breast cancer survivors.  They host the Gala to celebrate life and use the opportunity to educate guests with a speaker.  The event reaches over 250 people from a variety of ethnic and professional backgrounds, and breast cancer survivors. 

Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital
Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital (HSCMH) is a 25 bed, nonprofit, critical access hospital with a direct digital mammography system that services Hot Springs County and its surrounding areas. The purpose of the program is to increase mammogram activity through education, and to replace the mammography printer. We are anticipating an increase in mammography screening through local events. The likely impact of the program would include an increase in breast health and breast cancer awareness, emphasizing in breast cancer detection methods, early detection and importance of yearly screening mammograms.

North Big Horn Hospital Foundation
North Big Horn Hospital District will be educating women on the importance of clinical breast exams, mammograms, and early breast cancer detection. They will also be providing free clinical breast exams and mammograms for women who: are low-income, uninsured, are not getting mammograms as needed, have high risk factors, or who are over 40 and have not had a routine mammogram in the past three years. NBHHD will hold breast cancer awareness events and provide free clinical breast exams in October. The intended impact is that more women will have yearly clinical breast exams and have their first, or annual, mammogram because of the education provided.

The Caring Foundation of Wyoming
The purpose of the Caring for Women Program is to improve access to mammography, comprehensive wellness exams and pap smears to women throughout Wyoming. The Caring for Women Program provides these services free of charge for women who indicate they do not have insurance and they cannot meet the financial obligation necessary to have these services provided. Success of the program will continue to be measured by the number of services provided to Wyoming women enrolled.

Wyoming Department of Health
The Wyoming Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program at the Wyoming Department of Health, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides breast cancer screening and diagnostic services for low-income, uninsured Wyoming women. The Treatment Act of 2001 permits women who are enrolled in CDC funded programs to transition to state Medicaid programs for coverage of breast cancer treatment. Federal funding has not kept pace with the demand. The WBCCEDP has experienced increased number of applicants in recent years. Approximately 45% of all new applicants are in immediate need of expensive diagnostic services. Komen funding ensures that all women who qualify for our program, and are in need of breast diagnostic services (biopsies), can be served. The impact is that more women will receive life saving breast cancer diagnostic and treatment services.

Wyoming Health Council
Women's Wellness at Wyoming Migrant Health is a program designed to provide case management and navigation for women in 5 counties (Park, Big Horn, Washakie, Hot Springs and Fremont) in northwest Wyoming. Our clients consist of Hispanic, Migrant/Seasonal Farm Workers, as well as low-income, uninsured and under-insured women. We assist them in receiving women's wellness services. Women who are enrolled in this program receive assistance with appointments, case management by a Registered Nurse, and the option of 1:1 or group education on breast cancer early detection, and how to perform a self breast exam. Our program has provided screening services to more than 1,200 women since February 2005. Many of those women also received diagnostic testing, and 5 are currently receiving treatment. A yearly wellness exam is an important part of early breast cancer detection. However, many Wyoming women neglect these important steps due to transportation issues or the financial inability to pay for these life saving services. Women's Wellness at Wyoming Migrant Health is here to assist women in need.