ACCESS Health Dept. Receives $65K Breast Cancer Awareness Grant
The Avon Foundation Award will assist the Dearborn nonprofit with community awareness and screening programs.
A grant announced this week will assist continued efforts of cancer awareness and detection within Dearborn’s Arab-American community and beyond. The $65,000 grant from the Avon Foundation’s Breast Health Outreach will provide funding to the Community Health and Research Center arm of Dearborn nonprofit ACCESS, aimed at increasing awareness of the lifesaving benefits of early detection of breast cancer. It is the 14th year running that ACCESS has received funding from the Avon Foundation for Women. The Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program at ACCESS Community Health and Research Center will educate women older than 40 who reside in metro Detroit and refer them to low-cost or free mammograms and clinical breast exams in their own …
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