Program areas at UBCF
Community service programs: ubcf supports your community by increasing awareness of Breast health and wellness through educational campaigns, distributing in-kind contributions and partnering with other charitable organizations to further extend ubcf's mission.
Covid grant program: United Breast Cancer Foundation developed the covid grant program in response to the underrepresented and chaotic times caused by the covid-19 pandemic. Assistance is available for women and men currently being treated for Breast Cancer or within 10 years remission to help with expenses and stress reduction via online gift cards.
Education and awareness: ubcf educates the public and increases general awareness of Breast Cancer and related topics through regular education campaigns. We distribute educational material including information on Breast health, Breast Cancer, early detection, a call to action to get your annual Breast screening and telling 3 people you know and love to be sure to get their Breast screening. Ubcf also places print Breast Cancer awareness messages in national publications. (continued on schedule o) by educating the public on a variety of issues ranging from prevention to early detection to treatment options, wellness services, and ubcf's unique patient and family programs, ubcf is ensuring that the public remain informed and aware of Breast Cancer facts, the effects of Breast Cancer on a patient and their family members, how Breast Cancer can be treated, as well as how to create and maintain a healthy lifestyle in an effort to prevent Breast Cancer, through ubcf's education and awareness campaigns, an estimated 20,441,614 people have been reached.
Breast screening program: ubcf provides financial support for Breast screening services to women and men nationwide. Ubcf covers numberous forms of screening technologies including mammography, thermography, ultrasound, mri, etc.
Holistic care program: ubcf encourages our clients to pursue pairing holistic and complementary medicine with cutting edge western medicine. Clients who apply for holistic care can expect to receive assistance with some of the following services: diet and nutritional counseling and supplements, counseling, mind-body therapies, energy healing, reflexology, lymphatic massage, acupunture, tattoos, wigs, and Breast forms. Services are tailored to individual needs and are conducted alongside conventional treatments.
Child sponsorships: of the estimated 339,250 women diagnosed with invasive Breast Cancer or dcis (ductal carcinoma in situ) in 2022, many of these women are mothers to young children at home. Here at the United Breast Cancer Foundation, we know that Cancer does not simply affect the Breast Cancer patient. The entire family is impacted by such a diagnosis. Ubcf has developed the child sponsorship program in response to our clients requesting support for not only themselves, but their children. Ubcf provides healthy food, assistance with medical treatments, counseling services, back to school clothing and supplies, and special holiday gifts.
Individual grant program offers customized support geared towards each individual's personal needs and circumstances. The individual grant program provides financial support for various expenses: medical procedures, prescription medications, cobra insurance coverage, housing expenses, utilities, transportation expenses, and domestic services. We are able to assist our clients with needs that are not covered by other more conventional programs.
Breast reconstructions: the United Breast Cancer Foundation understands that a woman faces many physical and emotional challenges after a mastectomy. Since introducing this program to the community in 2006, ubcf has assisted over 60 women with Breast reconstructive surgery. It is imperative for a women recovering from Breast Cancer to have every opportunity to regain her confidence. For many women who've had mastectomies, their natural inclination is to have reconstructive surgery as an effort to regain a sense of well-being, of moving on and forward with their lives. Unfortunately, Breast reconstructive surgery is not covered by most medical insurance plans, as it is considered an elective surgery, even for a woman who has had to have a mastectomy due to Breast Cancer.
College scholarship: this very special program was developed by the United Breast Cancer foundations long-standing president and executive director, ms. stephanie mastroianni. Stephanie vowed to create a scholarship opportunity to assist students who have suffered the loss of a parent or guardian due to Breast Cancer and when the time presented itself, she did just that.