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Black Lives Matter
News from the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program
June 11, 2020
Since 1980, the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program has provided a hotline, counseling, education, patient navigation and advocacy programs. We are committed to social justice and stand against racism. We stand in solidarity with the African American community as well as with all families who have had loved ones murdered because of ignorance and hate.
The Adelphi Breast Cancer Program has a long history of advocacy for breast cancer screening, treatment, and providing services to medically underserved patients.
We work with community leaders to actively fight systemic racism in health care.
We connect individuals in medically underserved communities to health care screenings which are a human right.
We support breast cancer patients and their families with professional counseling and culturally competent patient navigation services regardless of race, religion, creed or socioeconomic status.
We will continue to educate staff, volunteers, and interns in diversity, inclusion, bias, and anti-racism.
We are a social work driven agency and adhere to the standards put forth in our code of ethics: “Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people.”
We are stronger together. We commit to standing against racism and continue to serve the diverse needs of the breast cancer community. You are not alone.
With hope for a better future,
The Adelphi Breast Cancer Program
About Adelphi: A modern metropolitan university with a personalized approach to higher learning
Adelphi University, New York, is a highly awarded, nationally ranked, powerfully connected doctoral research university dedicated to transforming students’ lives through small classes with world-class faculty, hands-on learning and innovative ways to support academic and career success. Adelphi is one of just four companies and the only university on Long Island to be named among America’s Best Employers by State for 2023 by Forbes.
A surge in 2024 rankings by U.S. News & World Report—up 19 spots as a Best College, up 85 spots for Social Mobility and up 35 spots as a Best Value College—supports Adelphi’s rising reputation. Adelphi serves more than 7,400 students at its beautiful main campus in Garden City, New York—just 23 miles from New York City’s cultural and internship opportunities—and at dynamic learning hubs in Brooklyn, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, as well as online.
More than 119,000 Adelphi graduates have gained the skills to thrive professionally as active, engaged citizens, making their mark on the University, their communities and the world.
For further information, please contact:
Todd Wilson
Strategic Communications Director
p – 516.237.8634
e – twilson@adelphi.edu
