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This free 2-part Understanding Cancer workshop helps you understand cancer risks and cancer screenings. You’ll also get personal support from a trained UVA Cancer Screening Navigator. Food and refreshments will be provided. Whether you’re new to the topic or want personalized screening help, this workshop is for you! This event is hosted by the Central Virginia Health Services and the University of Virginia Comprehensive Cancer Center.
This workshop is for anyone interested in learning about:
- Cancer and cancer screenings
- How to take action toward better health
2-PART WORKSHOP EVENT DETAILS:
PART 1: October 17, 2024
Time: 3-5 PM
Location: CVHS Louisa, 410 Industrial Dr. Louisa, VA 23093
PART 2: October 29, 2024
Time: 3-5 PM
Location: CVHS Louisa, 410 Industrial Dr. Louisa, VA 23093
For questions, please contact: Robin Tyler at 804-895-3052 or robintyler@cvhsinc.org
When: 9am-1pm
Where: Petersburg Union Station 103 River St, Petersburg, VA 23803
Why: COE will be providing breast cancer screening education and navigation services for Pink Power Walk. The purpose of this walk is to build awareness about breast cancer and to provide local resources for attendees who are interested in learning more about breast cancer, mammograms, and the impact breast cancer has on our community.
Hosted/Presented by: Central Virginia Health Services and United HealthCare
When: 8am-3pm
Where: Albemarle High School – 2775 Hydraulic Rd Charlottesville, VA 22901
Description: Making Connections is for ACPS teachers and staff to participate in professional learning together. Sharing our practices across the division with one another builds our personal and collective capacity to end the predictive value of race, class, gender and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all.
Community outreach event providing cancer screening navigation services and spreading general cancer screening awareness.
Event info (from UVA School of Med website): The purpose of these bi-weekly (every two weeks) events is to advance community engagement and health equity for all. At Fifeville Health Station, residents can receive free blood-pressure and blood-sugar checkups, get help accessing their cancer screenings, as well as take home fresh produce via a pay-what-you-can farm stand.
Location: 782 Prospect Ave, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Veterans’s Dental Day offers FREE dental care, free haircuts, community resources, and vendors. Call 423.652.0260.
UVACC COE is attending this event and providing cancer-related information.
BAE Systems and Healing Hands Health is sponsoring the event.
When: 9am-12pm and 4pm-6pm
Where: Christiansburg Recreation Center
Purpose: COE will provide cancer-related education and materials.
Working together to reach 80% screening rates for colorectal cancer in every community!
Join the Virginia Colorectal Cancer Roundtable and Ballad Health for a day of collaboration and action planning to address colorectal cancer in our region.
Learn how colorectal cancer is impacting the region
Hear the latest efforts around colorectal cancer screening from the region and the state
Collectively develop a regional plan to address the colorectal cancer burden
To register, please visit Register for event
More details to come
Providing cancer screening navigation services with a monthly educational focus on certain cancer types and/or cancer prevention information. A COE Navigation Team member will be present to provide cancer-related navigation services.
Where: Blue Ridge Medical Center
When: 11/21 from 8am-4:30pm
Who: Lauren Carbo from UVA’s Lung Cancer Screening Program
Description: OCOE and the UVA Lung Cancer Screening Program will be at Blue Ridge Medical Center (BRMC) to discuss lung cancer screenings with BRMC patients. Patients will be able to walk through a pair of inflatable lung that show the impacts on lung cancer on the body, and will receive both lung cancer screening information and navigation services.