Happy Spring! We hope you are enjoying the brighter days and lighter evenings as much as we are. Along with the wildflowers, much has been blossoming at Zero Breast Cancer.
As Spring began, our Resilient Me Health & Wellness pilot launched, too. We have 8 clients who currently have or have had breast cancer participating in weekly 1:1 personalized sessions for 10 weeks. It’s wonderful to see our clients improving their health and wellness, thanks to people like you who support our mission with a generous donation. We plan to have another round of clients starting in June.
We’ve been hard at work writing grants for Resilient Me and received our first from To Celebrate Life to serve people in the San Francisco Bay Area! We’ve also applied to Safeway Foundation to serve people across Northern California – please consider adding a donation when you checkout this month to support our program.
This March also saw the release of our Healthy Futures kids’ activity book in Spanish. Now Girl Scouts, afterschool/summer programs, and caregivers can engage in healthy activities with Spanish-speaking kids ages 5-8 to help them move more, eat healthy, get enough sleep, and manage stress. After they complete activities in each of these areas, they are mailed a zipper pull or patch in acknowledgement of their participation. Since Healthy Futures was developed in English in January 2023, 4,440 kids have completed it across the USA, including 646 who have done so in 2024 already!
Last but certainly not least, we have a webinar coming up as part of our Pathways Breast Cancer Survivorship series. “Genetics and Breast Cancer: Learnings From the Pathways Study and Clinical Practice” will take place April 25, 2024, at 11 am PT/2 pm ET. Zero Breast Cancer’s Lianna Hartmour, MA, will moderate, while Christine Ambrosone, PhD (Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center) will inform about the environment and breast cancer, and Leslie Manace Brenman, MD, MPhil (Kaiser Permanente) will share about clinical practice. After the presentations, Pathways Study Principal Investigator Larry Kushi, ScD (Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research) will join the speakers for questions. We hope to see you there!
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As always, thank you for your continued support of our work by reading our emails, participating in our programs, donating, and/or attending our webinars.
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Yours in health,
David
David Shao
Acting Executive Director
Board President
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Por qué Zero Breast Cancer se enfoca en la salud de las niñas y niños
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Along with the Healthy Futures activity book and resources, our blog about why we focus on kids' health in our Healthy Futures program is now available in Spanish! Read the blog Spanish or English.
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Ever wondered if there was a way to easily analyze the complex world of product ingredients? Meet Yuka, an innovative app founded in France by three friends who aimed to create a tool that could analyze the ingredients in food and personal care products, making it accessible to everyone. Read our review to learn why we recommend it.
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Don't forget to donate at the register when you're at Safeway to support Zero Breast Cancer's Resilient Me Health & Wellness Coaching Program! You can also donate to the Safeway Foundation online here.
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If you have a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) through Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, or BNY Mellon Charitable, click here for a short-cut.
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