Summer 2006

On June 15, 2006, the California Black Women's Health Project (CABWHP) honored "Women Who Dared" during our 12^th Anniversary Breakfast Gala & Online Auction held at the elegant City Club on Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles. This year, we paid tribute to three outstanding women: Angela Bassett (Actor), Sylvia Drew Ivie, J.D. (former Executive Director, T.H.E. Clinic), and Rosemary Turner (Vice President, Southern California, District United Parcel Service). We were once again delighted to have Rachel Boesing (Today in L.A. weather forecaster, NBC4) emcee the event.

CABWHP will soon begin training a new group of Los Angeles health advocates for our innovative Advocate Training Program (ATP). The ATP is designed to train women from the grassroots community to become effective health policy activists and advocates. In 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005, the program was enormously successful.