Increasing African Immigrant Women's Participation in Breast Cancer Screening

African immigrant women are at significant risk for not participating in preventive screening, such as for breast cancer. Thus, this project will culturally adapt an existing evidenced-based, the Witness Project, by identifying potential barriers and guided by the Health Belief Model incorporate those findings into a group-based narrative education program for English and French-speaking African immigrant women. The program content will include: (1) information about the benefits of early detection of breast cancer screening, (2) education about disparities in breast cancer, (3) disparities in breast cancer screening among African immigrant women, and (4) will address the unique barriers and facilitators of African immigrant women identified in Aim 1 of this study. The program will use a culturally matched peer approach to educate and model successful experiences with mammography screening.