Project Early Awareness is an innovative educational program in Washington, D.C., designed to reduce breast health disparities in minority communities. The program encourages high-school girls to develop good breast-health habits and to share information about screening for breast cancer with their mothers, grandmothers, aunts and other female relatives.
Taught by a young breast cancer survivor who was diagnosed at age 23, the program is now active in 14 public high schools. Howard University and the Prevent Cancer Foundation have produced for the program a video that promotes teen breast self-examination. Both the new curriculum and the video have the potential for national distribution.