NBCF Outreach to New York City Areas with Free Mammograms Janelle presents a check to the American-Italian Cancer Foundation in New York City to help support their program for more than 5,000 mammograms annually given for women of all nationalities. NBCF's national programs spotlight the need for breast cancer education such as the one recently conducted in Orlando, Florida, with singer Gladys Knight and motivational speaker, Les Brown. Working with a coalition of homeless shelters across the state and the largest hospital in Central Florida, NBCF uniquely brought media publicity to the enormous problem of breast cancer with answers of help and hope to the needy. Through programs with the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, California, distribution of thousands of pieces of educational materials have reached low-income and battered women in the Bay Area. Janelle Hail has spoken at the National Convention of the American Federation of Teachers.
Teachers are one of the highest risk groups of women who die of breast cancer.
It was a teacher who taught Janelle the importance of breast self-exams in Junior High School. Janelle attributes a teacher to saving her life, as she was able to find a lump in her own breast eighteen years ago. Early detection was her key to survival. Janelle Hail has spoken to several Fortune 500 companies educating their employees and working with them to provide programs for underserved women. In Texas special programs have been conducted such as the one in Beeville, where citywide distribution of literature on breast cancer was sent in alliance with utility companies, banks, and churches.