Enchanted Happenings With Genevieve Gibbons of Screening Saves Lives
Channel: Rev. Rayvin Nyte
Date: 2013-09-23

http://www.cancer.ca/womentowomen

Genevieve recruited me as a volunteer in the Screening Saves Lives program in 2008 as a trained Health Ambassador.  We've been doing booths and talks as well as one-to-one conversations ever since.

Get Screened is a part of the Canadian Cancer Society's Screening Saves Lives program

Screening Saves Lives:

    Uses a successful peer-to-peer model to improve the cancer screening rates of communities that are less likely to get screened in Ontario
    Recruits volunteer Health Ambassadors from under- and never-screened communities
    Health Ambassadors are equipped with cancer screening and health promotion knowledge
    Health Ambassadors share screening messages with their friends, families, partner(s) and other members of their social networks
    Health Ambassadors Possess unique understandings of the social, cultural, geographic and economic factors that affect health decisions that their peers are making
    Their lived experiences make them qualified to provide culturally appropriate screening messages to their peers
    Works in partnership with advisory committees, community-based organizations, and researchers to identity and address barriers to cancer screening and develop and share best practices.
    Currently runs peer-to-peer based health promotion initiatives in Northern Ontario (Sudbury), on Manitoulin Island (First Nations communities), in Peel (with South Asian Communities) and in Hamilton, Ottawa and Toronto (LGBTQ communities)
    Was adapted from the North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Program

The Women to Women campaign just started recently.


The Women to Women Movement

The Canadian Cancer Society's Women to Women movement empowers women to educate other women about breast cancer screening and to raise funds to support breast cancer research. With your help we can spread the message that mammograms save lives!

Join Women to Women and become an Ambassador.

There are different ways you can participate and women of all ages are encouraged to join.

Act: Make sure to get a mammogram yourself, every two years if you are aged 50-69.

Share: Encourage the women in your life to learn more about screening and get tested themselves.

Fundraise: Encourage your family and friends to make a donation to support breast cancer research or simply donate yourself! Learn about how funding for research makes a difference.


Enchanting & Enhancing Your Life 
Rayvin Nyte