Quinn Community Outreach Corporation

Website: http://www.qcoc.net

Quinn Community Outreach Corporation

Eudora Mitchell, M.A., Program Director
Phone: (951) 485-3734
Fax: (951) 485-4031
E-mail: eudoramitchell@hotmail.com

“Southern California Witness & Esperanza y Vida Projects”

The Southern California Witness and Esperanza y Vida Projects, are research-based programs of Quinn Community Outreach Corporation, that address a critical need for culturally relevant, community-based breast cancer education/awareness, outreach and support to uninsured, underinsured, and low income African American and Latina women and men of all ages residing in the ethnically diverse Inland Empire communities. Teams of trained Staff, Lay Health Advisors and Witness Role Models work with participants to acknowledge, overcome social and cultural issues surrounding breast cancer, its detection, address fears, and encourage open dialogue expressing concerns about breast cancer in a supportive environment.  Breast cancer survivors (Witness Role Models) share their own experiences while stressing the importance of early detection and that being diagnosed with breast cancer does not have to be a “Death Sentence”. Staff and Lay Health Advisors provide instruction on how to do breast self-exams through demonstrations, facts and myths about breast cancer, and the importance of breast health care.