Programs / Services

If you are a healthcare professional, Living Beyond Breast Cancer offers educational programs and services to help you inform and counsel women affected by breast cancer.

Workshops and Trainings

LBBC serves you through workshops and training sessions tailored to your needs.

During these educational workshops, trusted consultants use Getting Connected: African-Americans Living Beyond Breast Cancer and We Celebrate Tomorrow: Latinas Living Beyond Breast Cancer/Celebramos el Mañana: Latinas que Sobreviven el Cáncer del Seno as effective tools for you to use when talking to African-American and Latina women at risk for or diagnosed with breast cancer. The training includes:

• Discussion of the books’ philosophy, themes and psycho-social-spiritual nature
• Identification of the books’ characteristics that make them easy to read and culturally relevant to African-American and Latina women
• Explanation of how to best use the books in individual counseling and/or group education

The trainings have been presented to healthcare providers in cities across the country and in Philadelphia’s seven major metropolitan hospitals, all the city of Philadelphia's Department of Public Health Care Centers, Howard University Cancer Center, Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization and to social service agency personnel as well as volunteers and professionals from the American Cancer Society’s Reach to Recovery program. In 2001, LBBC began offering the trainings to medical, nursing and social work students, using the book to talk about cultural sensitivity and the impact of healthcare providers. To date, more than 2,000 healthcare professionals nationwide have attended these trainings.

Consultants are available for presentations at high-level conferences and health fairs. For more information or to schedule a training in your area, e-mail Arin Ahlum Hanson, MPH, CHES, LBBC’s education and outreach coordinator, or call her at (610) 645-4567. Learn more about upcoming trainings.

Conferences and Teleconferences

Learn more about the issues your patients are interested in at LBBC’s conferences and teleconferences. LBBC offers CEU credits to social work professionals who attend these programs.

Publications

LBBC’s Guide to Understanding series addressing the unique needs of women newly diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and women with advanced breast cancer, as well as the culturally sensitive books Getting Connected: African-Americans Living Beyond Breast Cancer and We Celebrate Tomorrow: Latinas Living Beyond Breast Cancer/Celebramos el Mañana: Latinas que Sobreviven el Cáncer del Seno, are available to you at low cost.

Library

LBBC maintains the Paula A. Seidman Library and Resource Center, the Philadelphia region’s only comprehensive library of books and breast cancer resources. Free and open to the public, the center contains books, pamphlets, newsletters and magazines on breast cancer and related topics, as well as a computer for Internet research.

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