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May 18, 2009

Sisters Network and San Francisco State University are embarking on a new partnership to develop and train African American cancer survivors to become peer counselors.

We would like to recruit 10 African American cancer survivors who are ready to help women newly diagnosed with cancer. We are envisioning that each peer counselor will assist one to five newly diagnosed women through providing emotional, spiritual and informational support through phone or face to face once a week for two months. San Francisco State University will provide training, weekly check-ins and a small stipend ($100). We will also have resources for peer counselors as they work with women who are undergoing treatment for cancer. .

In order to be eligible to be a peer counselor:
• You must be an African American cancer survivor that has completed all treatment (with the exception of hormone therapy).
• Commit one year to this effort
• Write a one page essay stating who you are, what type of cancer and treatment you had, how you got through this experience and why this is something you would like to do.

Please email your essay to gracey@sfsu.edu by Sunday, May 31, 2009. If you do not have email access, you mail mail this essay to Grace Yoo, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway, EP 103, San Francisco, CA 94132.

If chosen, you will be required to attend an all expense paid one and a half -day retreat at the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City June 27-28, 2009 and to be available throughout the year to talk to women newly diagnosed and to have weekly phone check ins with the SFSU team.

If you have any questions, feel free to email us or call us Grace Yoo or Ellen Levine at (415)405-7572.

Sincerely,

Gail D. Bishop
Sisters Network President and Founder

Grace J. Yoo, Ph.D., MPH
San Francisco State University

Ellen G. Levine, Ph.D., MPH
San Francisco State University