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Bulletin, Progressive, Record, Reporter Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 9B
UC Davis, Susan G. Komen join forces
Partnership to expand programs in t:our-coun y area
University of California
Davis Cancer Center and
Susan G. Komen for the Cure,
Sacramento Valley joined
forces last week to identify
and respond to the needs of
California women living with
breast cancer in counties
with some of the highest inci-
dence and death rates from
the disease.
The partnership, sealed
with a memorandum of
understanding in a ceremony
at the Cancer Center, aims
to expand the UC Davis
WeCARE! Breast Cancer Peer
Navigator Program into
Butte, Sierra, Nevada and
Plumas counties and in-
crease the awareness and
presence of Komen for the
Cure.
Donna R. Sanderson, exec-,
utive director of Komen's
Sacramento Valley affiliate,
called the partnership an
"example of everybody
winning" that could become
a national model.
"We have needs in rural
communities. UC Davis has
the navigator program," she
said. "We thought if we
married our programs, the
peer navigators could take
care of some of our volun-
teers' needs in the rural
communities and some of our
volunteers might become
peer navigators themselves.
All the women and their
families in rural communi-
ties win."
The collaboration will
allow the two entities to re-
cruit and train volunteer
breast cancer survivors to
support newly diagnosed
breast cancer patients
through the first several
months of treatment. Komen
plans to use the partnership
to attract more "ambas-
sadors" for its local outreach
efforts.
The two groups also will
work together to raise funds,
host educational activities
and collaborate on popula-
tion-based studies on cancer
prevention, control and care
and eplore idditional ser-
vices to improve the quality
of life for breast cancer
patients and survivors in
those communities.
Marlene yon Friederichs-
Fitzwater, director of the
Outreach Research and Edu-
cation Program at UC Davis
Cancer Center, said the rela-
tionship grew out of a recog-
nized need for support in
rural counties where mim-
mography screening rates
are poor and •breast cancer
incidence rates are among
the highest in the state.
The WeCARE! Breast Can-
cer Peer Navigator program,
funded with a grant fro m the
Safeway Foundation, has es-
tablished a robust presence
in the Sacramento region the
past two years, providing
one-on-one support to women
in the first days, weeks and
months after a breast cancer
diagnosis, as well as training
to women two years out of
treatment, to provide the
peer support.
"Many of our patients who
receive care here go back to
their rural communities and
don't have the resources
they need," yon Friederichs-
Fitzwater said. "By recruit-
ing survivors in those com-
munities and training them,
our patients will have
support when they go back
home. Our specially trained
peer navigators will help
them identify the resources
they need during treatment
and through their transition
to survivorship."
The Sacramento Valley
affiliate of Susan G. Komen
for the Cure raises funds
for research, education,
screening and patient-
support programs. Komen
for the Cure is the largest
grassroots network of breast
cancer survivors and activi-
ties in the world, investing
nearly $1 billion in the fight
against breast cancer.
UC Davis Cancer Center is
the only National Cancer
Institute-designated center
serving the Central Valley
and inland Northern Califor-
nia, a region of more than
6 million people.
Its top specialists provide
compassionate, comprehen-
sive care for more than 9,000
adults and children every
year, and offer patients
access to more than 150 clini-
cal trials at any given time.
Its innovative research pro-
gram includes more than
280 scientists at UC Davis
and Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory.
The unique partnership,
the first between a major
cancer center and a nationaJ
laboratory, has resulted in
the discovery of new tools to
diagnose and treat cancer!
Through the Cancer Care
Network, UC Davis is. collab=
orating with a number of
hospitals and clinical cen-
ters throughout the Central
Valley and Northern Califor-
nia regions to offer the
latest cancer-care services.
For more information, visit
cancer.ucdavis.edu.
Deadline nears for vets' healtt00 care be lefits
Certain combat veterans
who were discharged from
active duty service before
Jan. 28, 2003, have until Jan.
27, 2011, to take advantage
of their enhanced health
care enrollment opportunity
through the Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA).
"While there is no time
limit for veterans to apply
for the VA health care they
earned with their service, I
highly encourage this group
of combat veterans to take
advantage of the enhanced
enrollment window to use
their health care benefits
through this simplified
process," said Secretary of
Veterans Affairs Eric K.
Shinseki. "VA has health
care eligibility specialists on-
line and at every medical
center eager to help veterans
take advantage of this oppor-
tunity."
The enhanced enrollment
window was provided for
in Public Law 110-181, the
National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for fiscal year
2008. That law gave combat
veterans who served after
Nov. 11, 1998, but separated
from service before Jan. 28,
2003 -- and did not enroll
before Jan. 28, 2008 -- three
years, beginning on Jan. 28,.
2008, to apply for the
enhanced em'ollment oppor-
tunity.
These veterans will still
be able to apply for health
benefits with VA after Jan.
27, but will have their status
for receiving VA health care
determined under normal
VA procedures that base
health care priority status on
the severity of a service-
connected disability or other
eligibility factors.
This would mean some
veterans could face income
or asset-based restrictions,
as well as delays in establish-
ing their VA health care
eligibility while their disabil-
ity status is determined.
Since the inception of the
enhanced enrollment oppor-
tunity, VA has sent more
than 750,000 personal letters
to eligible veterans and
hosted thousands of outreach
efforts through Operation
Iraqi Freedom/Operation
Enduring Freedom and
enrollment coordinators
stationed at every VA
medical center.
Homeless count
The Dos Rios Continuum of
Care (CoC) for the prevention
of homelessness is a partner-
ship of private and public
agencies that strive to
improve services for individ-
uals and families who are
homeless or are at risk of
losing their housing. The
CoC's goal is to decrease inci-
dences of homelessness and
the associated impact on the
individual, the family and
community.
The Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development
(HUD) requires all homeless
continuums to conduct a
point-in-time count of home-
less individuals/families dur-
ing a specified week each
year; in Plumas County the
date will be Jan. 26. Those
who know someone who is
homeless should direct them
to a member of the survey
team at the survey site shown
below on Jan. 26.
A survey team comprised
of community volunteers and
agency representatives will
be in the community and
Since June 2010, VA sent
another 194,000 personal
letters to give every eligible
veteran a chance to take
advantage of this opportu-
nity, but to date only 13,000
of these veterans have
enrolled.
The law does continue to
provide the enhanced health
care enrollment window to
combat veterans who were
discharged or released from
active service on or after
January 28, 2003. For these
veterans, the five-year
enrollment period begins on
the discharge or separation
date of the service member
','. . be held Jan. 26
stationed at the Plumas The survey will establish
a count of homeless families/
individuals on this day in
time that will allow Plumas
County to be eligible for
federal funding through
HUD and other agencies for
housing-related programs
and support '
services.
Results will provide a base
for planning services to meet
the needs of the homeless
children and families in the
area.
Woodbridge at Port01a Project
Contact David Wade, President
(916) 565-7629
Crisis Intetventio.n and
Resource Center, 592 Main St.
in Quincy, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Survey participants will be
provided a gift incentive for
their time and willingness to
complete the survey. Those
who would like to volunteer
' as a surveyor should contact
Leaf Van Pelt at 283-5515 or
hprp@pcirc.com. Information
provided during the survey
will be kept anonymous.
NEED HELP?
Replacing or Repairing:
• Doors • Trim
• Windows • Plumbing
• Roofing • Electrical
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health risks. Everyone is welcome.
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2"O0-4:00pm
Held the 3rd Tuesday each month
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For more information or to sign up call:
Debbie Jones, Health Educator
251-5000 Ext.223
A service.of Northeastern Rural Heal{h Clinics
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from active duty military
service, or in the case of
multiple call-ups, the most
recent discharge date.
Veterans can apply for
enrollment online at https://
www.1010ez.med.va.gov/sec/
vha/1010ez, by contacting VA
at (877) 222-VETS (8387) or
with the help of a VA health
care eligibility specialist at
any VA medical center. GO
to www2.va.gov/directory/
guide/home.asp for loca-
tions.
For more information re-
garding enrollment, visit
VA's eligibility site at
va.gov/healtheligibility.
If you don't want to report a rape
because you know the guy and don't want
to get him in trouble, or you
"don't want to rock the boar'
please call a rape counselor at the
Plumas County I%pe Crisis Center, 283-5515
or Sierra SAFE in Sierra County at 993-1237.
You need more information concerning
health issues and your personal rights. All calls are
confidential and so is your contact with the counselor.
Crisis Line Resource
283-4333 "" ""': - Center
1-877-332-2754 or 283-5515
A program of Plumas Crisis Intervention
& Resource Center
q PET ANNOUNCEMENTS
BIRTHS, OBITUARIES, IN MEMORIAMS,
BIRTHDAYS, CONTEST WINNERS, ETC.
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Ely's Knight Mare
Lady Elysees of Butterfly Valley anGalustrus Knight of
Rogue River, Ore., welcomed E l=ls1qight .Mare Aug. 8,
2007, during a home birth at C.Ctterfly Valley
The newborn measu£edl]]]l[es at the withers.
Maternal grandparlm6"-" "Dorothy and Dennis Miller of
Butterfly Valley ""
Paternal grandparents are Sharon and Gordon
Westergard of Rogue River, Ore.
Great grandmother is Donna Miller of Quincy
Elly's joins sibling Andy, 11.
Brutis "Big Boy" Smith
Brutis Smith, age 12, wen[Lgreat mousehunt in
the sky Aug. 6, 2007. ,L.," .._ ,- '_
He enjoyed nap.4k/an chair, fresh water, and
investigating the neillbbFs' yards for treats. He was a great
guard cat, chasing dogs from the front yard.
He is survived by his sister, Freda, friend Be, and
human servants Steve and Ellen Smith.
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For more information, call:
Feather River
Bulletin
283-0800
Indian Valley Record
258-3115
Chester Progressive
258-3115
Lassen County
Times
257-5321
Westwood PinePress
258-3115
Portola Reporter
832-4646