1. SUCCEED in North Carolina October 3, 2008 Alexis Moore Grace Wright Cathy Melvin We wish to acknowledge the Carolina Community Network to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CCN), funded by the National Cancer Institute, for its extensive support in identifying and developing partnerships with the agencies and communities that are participating in North Carolina SUCCEED.

2. Dissemination Core, UNC Lineberger Cancer Center Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN), UNC Prevention Research Center CPCRN and Dissemination Core: Integrated Services to Researchers and Communities

3. SUCCEED in North Carolina Chapel Hill Greensboro AHEC Guilford Alamance Caswell Chatham Montgomery Orange Randolph Rockingham Area L AHEC Edgecombe Halifax Nash Northampton Wilson

4. Goal: Bring together organizations and people from across NC who are committed to: ►reducing breast cancer disparities ►building capacity of LHA groups Conference Participants: ►Health Care Providers, Advocates, Survivors, Co-Survivors, Interested Community Leaders Number of attendees: 130 Conference Evaluation ►90% rated the conference as excellent ►105 evaluations received (80% response rate) Save Our Sisters Conference

5. Grant Recipient: Piedmont Health Services and Sickle Cell Agency in Guilford County Cassandra Durham, PHSSCA Health Services Staff Member Mary Lou Blakeney, Volunteer Nurse, PHSSCA; Clinical Adviser, UNC CRC Study Brandolyn White, Greensboro AHEC Outreach Specialist, Carolina Community Network Kathi Wilson, CPCRN Program Officer, CDC Kathy Norcott, Assistant Director, PHSSCA

6. Area L AHEC Greensboro High Point

7. Edgecombe County  Breast cancer mortality rate is 36.7 compared to 25.7, statewide (per 100,000, 2002-2006) ►Minority - 38.5 ►White - 34.9 16 th highest rate in the U.S. (Susan G. Komen) Breast Cancer Taskforce established in 2007, in response to the Komen Report with committees focused on: ►Transportation ►Education ►Mass communication ►Funding ►Research-based “Best Practice”  Access?  Treatment disparities?

8. SUCCEEDing Means Reaching Beyond Guilford and Edgecombe ►Community Action planning ►Building capacity and a funding base to support effective outreach and education programs ►Increasing access to screening services and timely treatment