SUN PROTECTION FOUNDATION INC

Advocacy Advocating for laws that will protect children from developing skin cancer is central to our mission and a major service to society. Advocacy can also be at the community level where raising awareness is key to changing behaviors and impacting disease. Our Advocacy Coordinator, Maura Flynn, was actively involved with community advocacy this year as she worked to educate other stakeholders via her work with the National Council for Skin Cancer Prevention and the Melanoma Action Coalition. CMPF partnered with the Nevada Cancer Coalition to provide SunAWARE resources for schools within that state and Karrie Fairbrother, Advisory Council, advocated for melanoma prevention by providing our new online SunAWARE classroom resources to the Montana Cancer Coalition. Pattie Day, Advisory Council, advocated for Sun Safety Awareness in New York State at the Central Valley School District in Ilion/Mohawk and Herkimer BOCES Complex. She advocated by posting SunAWARE banners throughout school yards, playgrounds, and ballfields.