About Us

SISTAs (Sisters in Survivorship through Action and Support) CanSurvive Coalition, Incorporated (SCSC) is a 501c3 nonprofit  organization providing  breast, cervical, ovarian and prostate cancer education and control services and promoting health and wellness lifestyle changes to reduce racial health disparities. Headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, our mission is to combat breast, cervical and prostate cancer among the medically underserved using a collaborative and community participatory approach. Our goals are to reduce barriers to early detection and treatment, and to promote follow up care and quality of survivorship. Moreover, we aim to increase survivors’ participation in strategies that eliminate disparities in breast and cervical cancer rates between African American and whites living in Alabama. We primarily serve African American survivors, family members and friends affected by the breast and cervical cancer experience with particular interest in the rural and remote River Region and Black Belt areas of Alabama. We are the first African American survivor-driven organization in the state to offer public education and awareness, support groups, advocacy, and outreach programs using a culturally sensitive approach. Furthermore, we are trailblazers in the arena of training and survivor driven support groups. We utilize a network of community volunteers as Survivor Advocate Members (SAMs) to provide cancer awareness messages to the public. From this social network, we are able to link those affected by cancer to quality resources in the community, provide peer-to-peer survivor support to breast and cervical cancer patients facing a cancer diagnosis,or living with, through and beyond cancer. During the past 15 years, SCSC has established formal partnerships to advance our mission with  academic institutions,  churches, and  community-based agencies, We are reaching out to medically underserved African American survivors and women at risk for breast and cervical cancer that we have been unable to “reach” using social networking strategies to further reduce disparities.