Skits About Breast Health Awareness Help Girl Scouts Teach Their Community
With the help of a Maurer Foundation Program Educator, 8 Girl Scouts presented breast cancer myths, risk factors and early detection methods.
Foundation Trains Students to Educate Each Other About Breast Health
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...
Corporate Wellness
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...
Reaching People Through Our Breast Health Programs
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.
Diversity in Education, and the importance of Mammography, CBE and BSE
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...
Junior Breast Health Educators at Syosset High School
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.