October
- Advocacy: gather bras and tape notes to them and send them to elected officials to promote Breast Cancer Awareness
- Have a screening of the film, Stepmom
- Education: have a speaker come in and instruct us on how to perform a self-breast exam
- Put shower/door hangers with breast health information in dorms
- Have a bra-fitter come in
- Education: discuss the health risks and benefits of soy and its effects (put fliers in bathrooms)
- Making Strides (October 3rd)
- Make and sell Boob cookies
- Scare away cancer (near Halloween)
- Candy grams
- Hope Lodge visit
- Candy apple event
- Hope Lodge visits
- Survivors could come in to speak about their experiences - or we could interview them
- Leaflets advertising events (handout on Rabb steps)
- Retreats for summer camps are happening, perhaps we could visit some and meet survivors
- Have a "cancer buddy"
- Create a collection of diaries of survivors at all stages of their cancer treatments
- Daffodil Days with Waltham Group
- Polling survivors about their experiences and asking them what events they'd like to have
- Dress-up as carnival people and go and visit kids in the hospital (like clowns)
- Lemonade sale/hot cocoa sale
- Jimmy Fund-like program
- Get gifts for kids in the hospital
- Perhaps create a peer group/sub-committee to work with survivorship
- Have Disabilities/Health Center reach out to our survivors here on campus and let them know that we are here for them
- Lobby Day
- Sending bras to elected officials
- Petitions
- ACS CAN (American Cancer Society Cancer Advocacy Network); it's $10 to join and you can do so online; it's a lot of fliers and a lot of emails
- Maybe have a group trip to D.C. for a major event
- Political/HSSP informational panel
- Bike-a-thon for cancer awareness
- April's a big advocacy month
- Insure the un-insured week (during May finals); it's a petition
- In the Family film screening
- My Sister's Keeper film screening
- Stepmom film screening
- Coffeehouse
- Great American Smokeout (November)
- When we sell the boob cookies, we can add a little paper with the sale with some educational tips on it
- Thank You for Smoking film screening (November - lung cancer awareness month)
- Book club with books that have cancer themes
- Educational games
- HPV/Guardasil Awareness with SSIS (January - cervical cancer awareness month)
- Create a project like those seen on Truth.org
- Different signs with information around campus each month
- How sex can lead to cancer (with SSIS)
- Trade in cigarettes for something/raffle for giving in packs of cigarettes
- Outlines of bodies (Truth.org-esque idea)
- No smoking within 30 feet of buildings on campus
- Sunscreen slip-n-slide (in the spring, maybe after Relay)
- Get a spray tan booth (in the spring)
- Get people to sign a promise to not use tanning beds
- Pass out free samples of sunscreen (see if some companies with sponsor this or donate some sunscreen for us to give out)
- Stress-free event during finals (work with Student Events?)(give out hot green tea in the campus center - relax with CAC)
- Giant blow-up colon during colon cancer awareness month
- Pass out peanuts and pamphlets during Valentine's Day (be sweet to your nuts for testicular cancer awareness month)
- Dodgeball tournament (protect your nuts - testicular cancer awareness month)
- Health Center could pass out information about cervical health (for cervical cancer awareness month - January)
- Healthy eating/healthy cooking (for March - nutrition month)(use the ACS cookbook)
- Paint the Campus Purple
- Hair donation event
- Shave your head day
- Wig Day - everyone wears a wig (get wigs donated from the costume shop in Waltham)
- Manicure for a Cure
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