This project aims to evaluate and refine a community-level intervention designed to improve the health and quality-of-life of Black women with metastatic breast cancer. Building on pilot projects that Dr. Rosenzweig and Dr. Yu have conducted over the last two years, this project will train and empower Black lay ministers (non-ordained leaders within a church) to provide enhanced support and advocacy to Black women living with metastatic breast cancer in Pittsburgh, and to study the effectiveness of that intervention. The goal of this project is to serve as a blueprint for medical institutions to develop long-term partnerships with Black faith-based community institutions to support community members facing serious illness.
(Funding source: The Pittsburgh Foundation.)