First Aid Care Team at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, provides medical care during events...
Volunteers help attendees on how to use the saliva collection kits during an on-site genetic cancer screening presentation and testing by Susan G. Komen/MD Anderson for church members of Wheeler Ave. Baptist Church Sunday, Mar. 12, 2023 in Houston.ReShonda Smith draws inspiration from Luke in Scripture: “To whom much is given, much will be required.”
Smith is part of the First Aid Care Team at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, a health and wellness ministry. The group provides medical care during events at the congregation and also shares educational health resources with the community. In addition, Black women are more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive types of breast cancer and at later stages, when outcomes are poorer.
Each house of worship has its own take on the event – some host a symposium, others a 5k, a breakfast or luncheon.Smith signed up as the ambassador for Wheeler Avenue and started training in December 2022. “To address the disparity in African-American communities, I thought it was an awesome idea,” Smith said.
Smith agreed. “The business of the church is not just saving souls,” she said. “We are there for the whole person, not just the spirit, but physical and mental health.”“People can look at us and at this partnership and know that together, we can reach more people and provide more care,” she said. Lack of transportation, distrust of the healthcare system and the high costs of procedures also present substantial barriers.The initiative aims to decrease breast cancer disparities in the Black community by 25 percent beginning in the U.S. metropolitan areas where inequities are greatest.
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