Schreiber High School celebrates breast cancer awareness month with ribbons, buttons, tattoos, baked goods and even pink mohawks.
Schreiber High School celebrates breast cancer awareness month with ribbons, buttons, tattoos, baked goods and even pink mohawks.
The Garden City High School senior girls attended the annual Women’s Health Awareness Program on March 31 in the Garden City High School Library.
A student’s view of one our cancer-prevention breast health programs, published in The Spectator, the Stuyvesant High School newspaper.
With the help of a Maurer Foundation Program Educator, 8 Girl Scouts presented breast cancer myths, risk factors and early detection methods.
Who says students can’t be teachers? At the Peer Education Program at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, NY, students are the only teachers. Peer Education Programs, a unique initiative of the Maurer Foundation, are student-run clubs, led by a school staff member that help students teach breast health education to their peers. The Foundation [...]
We have been very busy spreading the word about our Corporate Wellness Program. As we network, more and more executives are realizing the important part that wellness and healthy lifestyle choices makes in lowering your risk of breast cancer. Our 45 minute program has been well received at companies like Capital One and Boehringer Ingelheim. [...]
During our breast health seminars, people sometimes confide in us about their personal stories, mostly related to breast cancer, and sometimes not. All these people’s stories make us feel we are really reaching people with our message.
Being able to educate people of all ages and ethnicities about breast health is very rewarding. This week, I went from presenting to ten 40-50 year old Caucasian and African American women at YWCA of NYC, to one hundred Asian high school students at Lower East Side Prep High School. People of all ages and [...]
I had the opportunity to train about 45 students at Syosset High School to become Junior Breast Health Educators through the Maurer Foundation’s BBS (Being Breast Smart) program.
We are nearing the end of Breast Cancer Awareness month and we’ve been extremely busy! Besides a very successful fundraising event at Brother Jimmy’s BBQ on October 22nd, we’ve been doing tons of programs. I was looking for the Catholic Daughter of America on Monday night, and I stumbled into a Narcotics Anonymous meeting by [...]