Local Resources

The following are local programs and services that have been funded by the Dallas County Affiliate of Susan G. Komen.To learn more about how these programs and services are selected for funding by the Dallas County Affiliate click here.

Additionally our Affiliate works closely with a number of breast health agencies, organizations and companies to identify all the possible resources to support a woman through her breast cancer treatment. Resources available in the Dallas County area vary from getting your mammogram, identifying a breast cancer support group to even securing financial assistance as you go through your breast cancer treatment. 

Download a detailed listing of our 2012-2013 community grantees.

Download a full list of breast health resources in the Dallas County Area in English or en Español

Download a listing of financial assistance resources available in the Dallas County area

Breast health and breast cancer education materials can be downloaded at no charge or ordered for a small fee at any time from Susan G. Komen 

American Cancer Society
Public Information: 1-800-227-2345
Website: www.cancer.org

The American Cancer Society provides support to breast cancer patients in Dallas County by offering breast prosthetics and transportation assistance to treatment at no cost to uninsured and underinsured patients. Services are accessed through a collaborative network of cancer treatment centers and American Cancer Society Resource Centers. Trained breast prosthetic fitters are available at four Resource Center locations: American Cancer Society’s Dallas Regional Office, Parkland Hospital, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, and the Seventh Day Adventist Hispanic Church of Garland. Through their network of community resources, American Cancer Society staff helps connect patients with information, emotional support, and assistance with day-to-day needs throughout their breast cancer journey.

Baylor Medical Center at Irving
Public Information: 972-579-4310
Website: www.BaylorHealth.edu

Irving Healthcare Foundation in partnership with Baylor Medical Center at Irving, Texas Oncology, the Women’s Imaging Center and the Surgical Group of North Texas has launched a breast health services program for residents of Irving that provides educational outreach as well as free mammograms and breast cancer treatment for low-income women that are uninsured or underinsured. Irving Healthcare Foundation and partners will help increase screening rates for an at-risk population in Dallas County in an effort to find breast cancer early and in its most treatable stages. This program is designed to address the entire breast cancer continuum of care from screening to diagnosis to treatment and to reduce barriers to accessing care including cost, traveling long distances and lack of transportation

Bridge Breast Network
Public Information: 214-821-3820, 877-258-1396 (toll free)
Website: www.BridgeBreast.org

The Bridge Breast Network Bridging Breast Healthcare Access is a comprehensive program that includes breast health education, patient navigation, and diagnostic and treatment services for breast cancer to low-income, uninsured and underinsured women, men, and adolescents in Dallas County. The Bridge Breast Network’s comprehensive network includes over 200 medical providers and collaboration with numerous community partners. The Bridge Breast Network’s treatment services include advanced diagnostic services, surgery, chemotherapy, labs, imaging, radiation oncology and follow-up. Patient navigation services are provided before, during, and beyond the breast cancer journey to increase access to care and support and survivorship.

Methodist Health System
Public Information: 214-947-0026
Website: www.MethodistHealthSystem.org

Methodist Health System, in conjunction with local congregations and community organizations, seeks to provide breast health education and screening mammography services to the medically under-served population of Dallas County. The goal of this program is to increase accessibility of breast health services at locations convenient and familiar to the public. Breast health services will be provided by the Methodist Mobile Mammography Unit and at Methodist Dallas and Methodist Charlton Medical Centers. Special focus will be placed on reaching African-American, Hispanic and other minority populations in Dallas County. Additional funding is available to aid in the follow-up care for abnormalities that may be detected during screening exams, or for clients that may be experiencing a breast problem which would require diagnostic imaging.

Methodist Richardson Medical Center/ Center for Women’s Health
Program: Asian Breast Health Outreach Project
Public Information: 972-498-8601
Website: www.AsianBreastHealth.org

The Asian Breast Health Outreach Project (ABHOP) empowers the Asian community with the knowledge of the benefits of early detection of breast cancer by providing educational seminars and screening mammograms for Asian women. Barriers such as language, fear, lack of information and sometimes means, keep these women from seeking care. Seminars are conducted in the native language of participants by physicians, nurses, or outreach staff and breast health materials are language specific and culturally appropriate. Screening mammograms and referrals are provided at no cost through the Center for Women’s Health at Methodist Richardson Medical Center for low-income, medically underserved Asian women. By minimizing cultural, financial, and language barriers for Asian women, ABHOP increases the number of women participating in screenings for the early detection of breast cancer.

Muslim Community Center for Human Services
Public Information: 817-589-9165
Website: www.mcc-hs.org

This program provides outreach services through community education and collaboration for mammogram screenings. Muslim Community Center for Human Services (MCCHS) programs target a special-needs population of multi-racial and/or multi-ethnic women, many of whom are foreign-born and experience barriers to maintaining wellness such as limited funds, lack of health insurance, cultural isolation and language differences. A female physician and three multi-lingual educators will provide information and follow up about breast cancer, breast self-awareness and the importance of mammograms in Urdu and Arabic as well as English to increase the potential for immigrants to benefit from MCCHS services.

Parkland Health & Hospital System
Public Information: 214-266-3333 or 214-266-3306
Website: www.ParklandHospital.com

Parkland’s Breast Health Outreach Initiative began in 1990 to provide breast cancer screening, prevention and intervention services to Dallas County residents. This program embodies Parkland’s mission to serve the uninsured, underinsured and medically underserved women in Dallas County who might otherwise not receive this critical health service and education. Through its mobile mammography unit, Parkland provides mammography screenings, case management and breast education. The success of the program is attributed to the opportunity for the mobile unit to go directly into the neighborhoods of underserved women to make preventive care more readily accessible, to remove any economic barriers, to detect breast cancer in its earliest stages and to refer patients for further treatment if needed. 

Planned Parenthood of North Texas
Public Information: 214-363-2004                
Website: www.ppnt.org

Planned Parenthood of North Texas (PPNT) is committed to breaking down barriers to health care and health education by providing cancer screening and care to Dallas County families, regardless of their socio-economic circumstances. Support from the Dallas County Affiliate of Susan G. Komen® provides low-income and uninsured women with lifesaving mammograms. This grant enables PPNT to provide no-cost screening mammograms through referral programs in five Dallas County health centers. The goal of PPNT’s breast health program is to detect breast cancer at its earliest stages by providing uninsured women with breast health education and screening mammography.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
Public Information: 214-345-2598
Website: www.TexasHealth.org

In partnership with the Susan G. Komen® Dallas County Affiliate, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas has developed the SEARCH program (Screening, Education, Assessment, Registered Nurse Consultation, Help). SEARCH is designed to remove common barriers of: cost; lack of opportunity; lack of knowledge; fear; language differences; and, lack of transportation; all listed as primary reasons uninsured women do not seek annual mammogram screenings. When enrolled in the SEARCH program, uninsured women will receive free mammogram screenings, one-on-one consultations with Texas Health registered nurses (RN), high-risk breast cancer assessments, and healthy breast care education. The Texas Health Dallas SEARCH program helps women increase their knowledge about breast cancer and become proactive in their own breast health care.

UT Southwestern Medical Center
Public Information: 214-645-2563
Website: www.swmed.edu

UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center and Parkland Hospital have combined resources to offer a comprehensive cancer risk assessment program that is unmatched in North Texas. The goal of the Clinical Cancer Genetics Program is to provide individuals with information and guidelines based on their family history and/or genetic testing results that will assist both themselves and their families in the early detection of cancer and the prevention of future new cancers. This funding is for genetic testing of individuals below 300% of the federal poverty line who would otherwise not be able to obtain funding assistance for genetic testing.

UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Center for Breast Care
Public Information: 214-645-2560 or Toll-Free 866-277-0710
Website: www.swmed.edu

The mobile mammography program of the Center for Breast Care at UT Southwestern Medical Center provides the opportunity for Dallas County women to participate in regular, periodic screening for the early detection of breast cancer. Local community events are held four to six times monthly, including two Saturdays, making it easy to do one’s mammogram. These outreach events occur in community schools, shopping centers, libraries, recreational centers, and churches. The mobile mammography unit serves to provide a digital screening mammogram to women in the most convenient way possible, near home or work, with personalized service, and the opportunity to participate in this life saving screening.

YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Public Information: 214-584-2305
(English and Spanish)
Website: www.ywcaDallas.org

Since 1990, the YWCA Women’s Health program has promoted the early detection of breast cancer through community-based services targeting medically underserved women. The goal of this program is to empower women to receive regular mammograms by overcoming barriers created by a lack of insurance, a lack of transportation, and limited English proficiency. Services include free mammograms, diagnostic follow-ups, and transportation assistance to women ages 35-64. The program uses YWCA Patient Navigators to guide women through the health care system and connect them with appropriate resources and support. The program focuses on education, providing breast self-awareness training and breast health education through community outreach events. Believing that lives are saved through early detection, YWCA Women’s Health is committed to providing a coordinated continuum of services to at-risk women in Dallas County.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Grants Program
Call Toll Free: 1-877 GO KOMEN (1-877-465-6636)
Website: www.komen.org/grants

The Dallas County Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® contributed up to 25% of net revenue to the Komen Grants Program. This is an exciting year for Komen’s Grants Program. Building on 29 years of funding research to find the causes and cures of breast cancer, Komen announces four new research funding opportunities, an important focus on speeding the translation of research discoveries to reduce breast cancer incidence and mortality within the next decade, and a completely redesigned system for application and peer review. In addition to funding breast cancer research, Komen and their Affiliate Network fund non-duplicative, community-based grants that translate the findings from research into breast health education and seek to enhance the availability of breast cancer screening and treatment for the medically underserved.

Since its inception in 1982, Susan G. Komen for the Cure® has supported virtually every major advance in breast cancer research over the past 29 years, with research investments to date of more than $300 million. Komen remains the nation's largest private provider of funds for breast cancer research and community outreach programs.

We are proud to have invested more than $19 million into Dallas County since 1992. Our current funding cycle, April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013, boasts 12 projects totaling more than $2 million that will provide breast health and breast cancer services to thousands of low-income and uninsured women in our community. The positive impact of this funding is significant, but it is not enough - as the need in our community continues to grow. The Affiliate received grant requests for $2.8 million for the 2012-13 grant cycle, and was unfortunately unable to fund all requests. The Affiliate will continue focusing on our mission to save lives and end this devastating disease.