Back to school season is an important time to raise awareness of the HPV vaccine as cancer prevention. With many parents taking their children for back to school well visits, school immunizations, and sports physicals, CPiA has been active at back to school events across the state to educate on this vital, cancer preventing vaccine. […]
New Outdoor Classroom for Gloversville Enlarged School District After many months of planning and working with the Gloversville Enlarged School District on their sun safety policy, they received their outdoor classroom! St. Mary’s Healthcare CPiA team thanks the district who went above and beyond in planning their sun safety policy implementation. The district provided a
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Stony Brook Cancer’s CPiA team congratulates Patchogue Medford Youth & Community Services (PMYCS) in taking action against cancer this summer season. Through our partnership, this Suffolk County based non-profit organization has incorporated sun safety education in its curriculum, with three sun safety events held this summer! Children and staff of PMYCS learned all about how
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Long Island’s Great South Bay Music Festival held their first festival since 2019, welcoming 15,000 people to Patchogue’s Shorefront Park for four days of music and sun safe fun! In its relaunch, Great South Bay sought help from Stony Brook Cancer Center’s CPiA team to adopt a sun safety policy, with the goal of reducing
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Stony Brook Cancer Center’s CPiA team welcomed Dr. Jana Shaw, professor of pediatrics at Upstate Medical University, and public education committee chair of the NYS HPV Coalition, to co-host an HPV vaccination training for providers at Long Island FQHC, Inc. LIFQHC, Inc. is a designated Federally Qualified Health Center serving Nassau County through a network
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Cancer Prevention in Action for Fulton, Montgomery & Schenectady Counties at St. Mary’s Healthcare created a paid time off benefit postcard in support of paid time off benefit for cancer screening policies. The piece can be printed in a postcard size and be placed in employee paychecks as a stuffer reminding employees that they have
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Stony Brook Cancer Center hosted “Block the Sun, Not the Fun”, a sun safety family friendly day event at Smith Haven Mall in Suffolk County. With the help of our community and health care partners, we spent the day teaching kids and families about skin cancer prevention, promoting sun safety, and providing free sun safety
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Cancer Prevention in Action for Fulton, Montgomery & Schenectady Counties at St. Mary’s Healthcare held a First Responder’s Cancer Prevention Workshop in Montgomery County. Cancer prevention education and resources were provided through a great collaboration of organizations including Montgomery County Public Health, Advancing Tobacco Free Communities, Calderwood Training Solutions and Cancer Services Program for Fulton,
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