National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program 30th Anniversary Awardee Highlight: Wisconsin The Well Woman Program at the Wisconsin Department of Health reflects on the successes and challenges of cancer screening in the community. Audio Descriptive Text • Milwaukee. Well Woman Program. Wisconsin State Department of Health. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. View of Milwaukee. • Antonette Zellmer, Mammography Technologist, City of Milwaukee Health Department. • Antonette Zellmer with a patient. • Lisa Albright, MS, Community Health Outreach Coordinator, Board Chair, WI Inter-Tribal Pink Shawl Initiative. • Bonnie Anderson, BA, LPN, Wellness Nurse Manager, Milwaukee Catholic Home, Nurses Affecting Change B’CAUSSSE, Wisconsin. • Sandra Millon Underwood, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Director, Partners in Pursuit of the Promise, B’CAUSSSE, Consultant, Nurses Affecting Change, Wisconsin. • Maria Chay discussing health results with her patient with a brochure in her language. • A client with two health specialists outside a health facility. • A group of women, one of them holding a flyer that says “2021 Community Health Fair: Thursday August 5th 2-6PM”. • Bonnie Anderson training her staff. • Bonnie Anderson speaking. • Bonnie Anderson embracing her patient while a specialist watches. • A patient talking to a specialist. • Sandra Millon Underwood. • Lisa Albright talking to clients. • Mayhoua Moua, BA, Executive Director, Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health. • Office with a banner that says: Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health. Empowering Asian American Families: Saving Lives through Education and Early Detection. Welcome! • Maria Chay, Community Health Worker, Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health. • Bow Meh, Wisconsin Well Woman Program Client, Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health, on the phone. • Maria Chay speaking. • Maria Chay viewing Bow Meh on her phone. • Lisa Albright speaking. • Native American women in their robes. • Mayhoua Moua speaking. • Maria Chay walking to the Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health. • Flyers in English, Burmese, and other languages. • Client with Maria Chay. • Antonette Zellmer with her patient. • Lisa Albright talking to clients. • Maria Chay viewing Bow Meh on her phone. • Bonnie Anderson training her staff. • Sandra Millon Underwood speaking. • Special thanks: WWWP Provider Network Organizations: Health Systems, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Rural Health Clinics, Hospital Outpatient Clinics; WWWP Coordinating Agencies: 13 Local Health Departments; 11 Tribal Nation Coordinating Agencies; Patient Navigation Locations: Marshfield Clinic Health System, Advocate Aurora Health, UW Health; WWWP Partners: American Cancer Society, Community-Based Organizations, Faith-Based Organizations, Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness, Pro Health, Inc. Hispanic Health Resource Center, Sisters Network Inc., Southeast Wisconsin Affiliate Chapter, UW Carbone Cancer Center-Cancer Health Disparities Initiative, Wisconsin Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, Inc., Wisconsin Breast Cancer Task Force, Wisconsin Cancer Collaborative, Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System, Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation, and Witness Project of Dane County; Awardee (not interviewed): Gale D. Johnson, MPA, Director, Wisconsin Well Woman Program, Bureau of Community Health Promotion, Division of Public Health, Wisonsin Department of Health Services. This video was produced and shot in accordance with CDC guidelines for the prevention of COVID-19 that were available at the time. The “Enhancing Cancer Program Grantee Capacity through Peer-to-Peer Learning” project is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $850,000 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government. Script [Antonette Zellmer] Milwaukee has a great need for breast cancer screenings. [Lisa Albright] One of the things that women that we serve struggle with is health literacy. [Bonnie Anderson] I think they understand the need to have health care, but I think one of the problems is, is that they have so many other things going on in their lives that the last thing that’s on a person’s mind when they have those kind of situations is health care. [Sandra Millon Underwood] It’s important for the State Health Department, for the Well Women program, to work with individuals who are already engaged, who have established trust, who can help bridge that alliance and ensure that it is implemented in a fashion that’s convenient not only for the agency, but more importantly for the community as well. [Bonnie Anderson] Every Saturday, we have at least three to four programs going where we’re in the community somewhere: at a church, at an apartment complex. We go to homeless shelters. We go to the homeless clinics. We go to drug rehab centers. Try to encourage as many women as we possibly can, how important it is to go ahead and have the screening done. [Sandra Millon Underwood] It just takes a moment in some instances to stop and just to listen. [Lisa Albright] The driving factor behind creating this establishment was making sure that Native Americans always had a place to go where they would feel like they were getting their medical services with dignity because they weren’t always getting that in the regular medical system. [Mayhoua Moua] We don’t trust the health care system because no one has really made the time to help us understand it. And so that’s why we feel that the Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health is playing a very, very important role. [Maria Chay] My role is being a bridge. I’m able to work with my Karenni community because I’m from there. I know the culture. [Bow Meh] [speaking Karenni] [Maria Chay] She’s saying that I cannot speak the language, and I don’t know how to make the appointment on my own, so I was going to call you to help me with that. [Lisa Albright] Many of us have been touched by different types of historical trauma that has affected the way that we have, you know, formed our medical opinions. Hopefully, Pink Shawl’s work will help kind of break that cycle. [Mayhoua Moua] When we were educated that regular screenings so that the doctors can catch it early and help us. It can save a lot of our lives. You know, it makes perfect sense for us to pursue this, to bring more education to the community. [Antonette Zellmer] I just can’t thank this program enough. It gives me a sense of satisfaction knowing that I’m saving lives one mammogram at a time. [Sandra Millon Underwood] If we are committed to serve the community and honestly respond to those needs that we can easily address, we can affect a mighty change.