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FEATURED ARTICLES - Archives

2010
 
CRCMC Receives $125,000 from the Avon Foundation 2011

Carol Kurzig, president of the Avon Foundation for Women, announced more than $1.9 million in grants to nine local Bay Area organizations, including Mendocino County.

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CRCMC Receives $125K at Avon Walk for Breast Cancer 2010
 
The Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County received a  $10,000 grant from the Safeway Foundation to further CRCMC’s innovative work in patient navigation for women diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. Read more...
 
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Free Educational Seminar
Learn about nutrition and breast cancer.
Understand more about HER2-Positive breast cancer and HER2-Negastive metastatic breast cancer.
Registration at 5:30 pm at Westin St. Francis, Elizabethan A,
335 Powell St., S.F.

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Dick's Place benefit raised over $1,800 for CRCMC in one night! Read more...
 
CRCMC Awarded $10K Grant From Safeway
By CRCMC Staff (2009)
The Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County recently received a grant for $10,000 from the Safeway Foundation to further CRC’s innovative work in patient navigation. Because the most important role of patient navigation is to assure that any patient with a suspicious finding will receive timely diagnosis and treatment, CRCMC’s increased capacity made possible through the Safeway Foundation grant will enable Patient Navigators to work more closely with primary care providers to increase the percentage of clients that seek CRCMC support within 30 days of their original diagnosis. READ MORE...
CRCMC Receives $125K at Avon Walk for Breast Cancer
Suze Orman, financial expert and Special Ambassador for the Avon Foundation for Women, announced during the Closing Ceremony a total of nearly $2.4 million in grants to 10 local organizations, inclusing CRCMC, ensuring the funds raised immediately benefit the community.  READ MORE...
Sara O'Donnell Honored by KQED & Patty Berg

KQED of San Francisco, and Wells Fargo honored five outstanding unsung local heroes in March, 2008. CRCMC Executive Director, Sara O'Donnell was one of the five recipients of this award. READ ON...

Assemblywoman Patty Berg of California's 1st Assembly district honored Sara O'Donnell with the 2008 Woman of the Year award. "O'Donnell's life journey embodies those qualities that I honor: courage, commitment and the will to succeed against all possible odds." READ ON...


CRCMC Awarded $10K Grant by Safeway Foundation (2008)
The Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County recently received a grant for $10,000 from the Safeway Foundation to further CRC’s innovative work in patient navigation. The funds will help support two bilingual patient navigators, located in the Ukiah and Mendocino CRC offices. CRC Patient Navigators serve in a variety of roles, from advocate, to benefits counselor to problem-solver. They work directly with the patient as well as their families to overcome a variety of barriers they may face in seeking care in a complex health care system. READ ON...


Notmeyer “gears up” for cross-country bike ride
Barry Notmeyer is continuing the “Spoking Up About Cancer” bicycle ride he began in July 2002. The original ride, a one-man fundraiser for the Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County, began in Port Hardy, British Columbia and ended four weeks &1300 miles later back in Mendocino. When Barry road home he was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd, many of whom had pledged dollars to the Cancer Resource Center in honor of his ride. This coming January, Barry will continue his journey while once again raising money for CRCMC. READ ON...
 
Re-Imaging Our Bodies Workshops See pictures from the Art Therapy Workshop on Healing Staffs last May, 2007.
Totem Making
Life Story Through Collage
Healing Altars
Medicine Staffs
Walking Meditation
Click on any of the workshops to learn more and see photos!
ARCH Welcomes UVMC and CRCMC as Newest Members
By Margaret McClure, ARCH Director of Communications
UKIAH – At their recent meeting, the Board of Directors of Alliance for Rural Community Health (ARCH) voted to admit two new associate members: The Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County (CRCMC) and Ukiah Valley Medical Center (UVMC). Sara O’Donnell, CRC’s Executive Director, and Terry Burns, Chief Executive Officer for UVMC, will represent their organizations... READ ON...
CHCF Awards $350,000 to Improve Rural Access to Specialists
By California Health Care Foundation
Oakland, CA - While public hospitals and community clinics across California struggle to meet demand for specialists, the situation is particularly acute in rural parts of the state, with far fewer physicians per capita and wait times for appointments of three months or more. READ ON...
Mendocino County Precautionary Principle Policy Adopted *Updated*

On June 27, 2006, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors (3-0) adopted the County's first-ever environmental policy -- the Mendocino County Precautionary Principle Policy. READ ON...

Watch Our Garden Grow (2)
By Claudia Crosetti, Ukiah Daily Journal
The next time you drive, bike or walk down Dora Street, please take notice of the Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County (CRCMC) located on the corner of Dora and Jones Streets.  The grass has been removed and replaced by rolling mounds and meandering pathways... READ ON... or SEE PICTURES...
You Can Have No Hair and Still Be Hery
By Claudia Crosetti, Ukiah Daily Journal

You probably think we misspelled the word hery, don't you? Au contraire! In Malagasy -- the language of Madagascar -- hery means strong. How do we know this? Leanna Sweet, this month's featured AmeriCorps volunteer learned the language while she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar. READ ON...

Ovarian Cancer Screening Myths
By Jill Summers, Program Assistant

Recently, an article was sent out on local listserves about the CA-125 blood test that screens for ovarian cancer. Carolyn Benivegna, the author of the letter, stated that had she received the CA-125 blood test as part of her annual exam, her doctors might have diagnosed her ovarian cancer earlier. Unfortunately, insisting that your doctor give you the CA-125 blood test may not be a good idea. READ ON...

CRCMC Accepts Lung Cancer Proclamation
By Jill Summers, Project Assistant
On November 7, Mendocino County joined the U.S. Cngress, California, and many of its counties in Declaring November to be Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Sara O'Donnell, Executive Director of the Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County, accepted a proclamation by Robert Pond of the coast chapter of the Lung Cancer Alliance to the members of the county Board of Supervisors. READ ON...

Local Man Donates Time and Hair
By Leanna Sweet, AmeriCorps Volunteer
People often walk through the doors of the Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County (CRCMC) with questions. Many of these are related to helping a loved one go through the journey that comes with a cancer diagnosis. “What can I do to assist? How can I comfort him/her? How can I try to understand what this person is going through?” These questions are very typical for anyone who is confronted with a sick loved one, whether the diagnosis is cancer or not. As employees of CRCMC, we are privileged to witness the point where such questions extend past the individual struggle with cancer. READ ON...

CRCMC Hosts the First Medical Spanish Interpretation Training in County History
By Rachel Kradin, Patient Navigator
Last week, the first Medical Interpretation Training Workshop was held in Mendocino County. With help from local funding, the Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County hosted a weeklong Professional Medical Spanish Interpretation Training in Ukiah. Esther Diaz, a well-seasoned instructor from the Cross Cultural Health Care Program, a nationally acclaimed professional training agency based in Seattle, taught the course. READ

New Dimensions Radio Program
PSYCHOSOMATIC WELLNESS with Candace Pert and Michael Ruff
What if you could start the day by directing your body to heal itself, just as easily as you brush your teeth? It sounds like an idea gleaned from the outer reaches of alternative medicine, but leading biochemists have found evidence that it may in fact be possible. Candace Pert and Mike Ruff are researchers at the forefront of immunology, and their work has led them to explore the measurable relationship between our emotions and the way our bodies heal. READ ON...

Culture Clash: Reflections on 13 years with breast cancer
by Stephanie Sugars
I’ve grown used to the double take. People who haven’t seen me for a while stop and look and often exclaim, “Oh-oh, here you are, and looking so well. You must be cured.” Maybe they remember hearing about my breast cancer diagnosis in 1991 or many recurrences since 1992 or my adventures with alternative medicine. My response is usually an honest, but enigmatic, “I’m so happy to be here and so happy to see you.” This diversionary tactic shifts the focus from my health to the other person’s life, which is usually so busy and full that s/he doesn’t even notice the diversion. Then it’s time to part and the other person is left with the impression that we both have busy, full lives. And I’m left shaking my head. READ ON...

4th Annual Big River Run

starting line

On Sept 20, 4th Annual Big River Run will raise hope, awareness and money for CRCMC. The popularity of the Big River Run is seen in the starting line photo of the 2001 event.

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Training Held for WeCAN! Volunteers
Women's Cancer Advocacy Network Completes Its 10th Training


Photo courtesy of Joan Emm Photography

THE WeCAN! VOLUNTEERS TRAINED ON 5/31/03 - 6/1/03 AT FETZER VINEYARDS IN HOPLAND

Back Row, standing from left to right: Patricia Guiterez: Panelist - Ukiah Valley, Toril Hayden - Ukiah Valley, Patricia Yanez - North Coast, Mary Jo Wirt - North Coast, Mary Jo Deicke - South Coast, Kristy Tanguay - North Coast, Peggy Miniclier - Anderson Valley, Maria Wetzel - North Coast, Carolyn Cooper - North Coast, Dana Vanderhorst: Panelist - Ukiah Valley, Dianne Menzies - Willits, Carol Deuel - Willits, Cora Gonzalez - Ukiah Valley, Madelyn McCauley - Willits

Front Row, seated from left to right: Cynthia Copenhagen - Volunteer Coordinator, Earlene Gleisner - Laytonville, Mimi Johnson - Adminstrative Assistant Ukiah Office, Sara O'Donnell - Executive Director of the Mendocino Cancer Resource Center, Nancy Johnson - WeCAN! Inland County Coordinator, Lillian Hoika - Willits




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