National Black Family Cancer Awareness
An Oncology Center of Excellence Project Community Initiative #BlackFamCan
Cancer Awareness Equals Empowerment
It’s time for the 4th Annual National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week, June 13-19, 2024! We encourage you to begin planning how your family, advocacy organization, cancer care colleagues and institutions will participate in both the dedicated “Conversation on Cancer” public panel discussion and the weeklong social media campaign using #BlackFamCam.
Save the Date: June 13, 2024, Conversations on Cancer public panel discussion. Registration is free and now open.
Use the 2024 #BlackFamCan social media toolkit and share YouTube videos and graphics below.
NBFCAW Promo
Be first to promote NBFCAW with your friends, post #BlackFamCan on social media June 13-19, 2024. Run time: 12 seconds.
For HBCUs and Faith-based Orgs
Help raise awareness for those at greatest risk, National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week, June 13-19, 2024. Run time: 1:08
Answer the call
Making Clinical Trials Available, National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week June 13-19, 2024. Run time: 34 seconds.
Power of Community
There is still time to plan for National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week, #BlackFamCan June 13-19, 2024. Run time: 1:09.
Download and Share Social Media Graphics
In conjunction with White House Cancer Moonshot goals, Project Community urges 2024 National Black Family Cancer Awareness initiative participants to remain committed to coordinating activities and social media messaging around the following:
- Thursday, June 13—Emphasize efforts to close the cancer screening gap.
- Friday, June 14—Understand and address cancer-related environmental exposure.
- Saturday, June 15—Support “Engaging the Generations” for Juneteenth and Father’s Day Weekend.
- Sunday, June 16—Support “Engaging the Generations” for Juneteenth and Father’s Day Weekend.
- Monday, June 17—Emphasize the harmful impact of tobacco use and decrease the impact of preventable cancers (4th Annual Juneteenth Federal Holiday).
- Tuesday, June 18—Support cancer research among patients and communities.
- Wednesday, June 19—Support patients and caregivers.
National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week graphics, YouTube videos and our customizable selfie frame are designed to help your community promote participation.
How to Use
Download, socialize and customize the content posted on this web page in ways that fit the needs of your channels, messaging, and audience.
- Download: Treat these tools and copyright-free materials as your own, with this caveat—the FDA logo must not be re-purposed for use on other webpages or non-FDA materials. Please remember to use #BlackFamCan.
- Socialize: #BlackFamCan materials are designed to be shared. Use your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or other social media account to help Project Community promote cancer awareness.
- Customize: Add your organization’s logo and URL or pair these graphics with a social media message of your own.
Customizable Selfie Frame!
Download, save to your device, add your selfie and share to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn! Use the hashtag #BlackFamCan
How to superimpose (overlay) the selfie frame on your image:
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Download and save the selfie frame.
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Open a new project in the photo program or app as a square or set as equal dimensions. There are several free superimpose apps for iPhone and Android.
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Upload the selfie frame.
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Add your image and resize if necessary.
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Add selfie frame over your image and resize if necessary.
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Export or save project as a new image.
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Upload and share on your social media channels!
Background
Project Community at the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence began its National Black Family Cancer Awareness initiative in 2021 coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the National Cancer Act and the signing of Presidential Executive Order 13985.
The initiative, now a year-round project, started as a week-long social media campaign to increase cancer awareness in one of the most vulnerable segments of the US population. The National Black Family Cancer Awareness initiative aims to marshal community-based stakeholders to build knowledge surrounding cancer clinical trial participation and minority population specimen donations to national genomic databases for cancer research.
Our 2023 activities began in January with stakeholder meetings and culminated in a one-week social media campaign, June 15-21. Thank you to the patients, families, communities, advocacy groups and organizations who participated in the 2023 National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week, #BlackFamCan, including Sonequa Martin-Green of Star Trek: Discovery and Chandra Wilson of Grey's Anatomy.
Sonequa Martin-Green joins Project Community
Chandra Wilson joins Project Community
Watch the June 15, 2023, recording of our public panel discussion supporting the 3rd Annual National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week, Conversation on Cancer: National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week—Engaging the Generations public panel discussion.
Please continue sharing your engagement all year long by posting any outcomes from your activities or personal messages, photos, and videos about the impact of National Black Family Cancer Awareness using the hashtag #BlackFamCan.
Connect With Us!
Twitter: #BlackFamCan, #OCEProjectCommunity
Email: OCE-Engagement@fda.hhs.gov
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