Community Grant Program (ScreenNJ)

Community Grant Program (ScreenNJ) is sponsored by ScreenNJ. This program offers patient navigation and education grants to New Jersey organizations dedicated to cancer prevention and screening. It aims to reduce cancer deaths by advancing prevention and early detection.

Partner Resources - ScreenNJ Inaugural Virtual ScreenNJ Partner Forum A dynamic gathering of community, clinical, academic, and public health partners dedicated to advancing cancer prevention, early detection, and health equity across New Jersey.

The forum features a Director’s vision for the future of cancer prevention and risk reduction, as well as partner panels on navigation and education, small-group discussions, and a collaborative fireside chat, culminating in shared insights to guide our collective work ahead. An informed community is an empowered community. Community education is a large part of our ScreenNJ Community Outreach and Engagement program.

Our Community Cancer Control Specialists commit themselves to giving community members all over the state the tools they need to lower cancer risk and rates. We work with community partners and state and local health systems to bring our programs to you. ScreenNJ’s programs include webinars, live workshops, and fairs in your communities.

What can our Community Cancer Control Specialist do for you: Come to your place of worship, PTO, club, or community center and talk about how to lower your cancer risk. Help you plan a health fair. Talk about diet and exercise.

Connect you to our Patient Navigators. Be a part of your health committees. Help your community organization translate materials about fighting cancer.

Support your organization with handouts (while supplies last).

If you would like to speak with someone on our team about your event or program: Education stands as a pillar within ScreenNJ’s commitment to implement and expand the reach of evidence-based cancer prevention and screening services, directly address barriers that prevent people from receiving timely cancer screenings, and reduce the cancer burden experienced by New Jerseyans.

Our multifaceted approach encompasses both community and professional education, grounded in the belief that knowledge should be universally accessible. By disseminating insights to healthcare and public health professionals across New Jersey, we empower them to better serve their communities.

Our suite of professional education services spans a diverse array of topics and formats, ranging from singular “Training the Trainer” sessions to comprehensive series like our Community CARES program. Whatever your organization’s needs may be, we stand ready to collaborate and deliver tailored content.

Our offerings encompass cancer site-specific insights, LGBTQ+ competency, environmental health, nutrition, clinical trial research, and beyond. Patient navigators are trained, culturally competent healthcare professionals who work with patients, families, physicians and other healthcare providers to ensure cancer patients’ needs are appropriately and effectively addressed.

A patient navigator can help with: Providing emotional support and information on cancer prevention, screening, and cancer care. Making referrals to screenings Providing information about cancer care and clinical trials. Connecting you with healthcare providers and assisting with scheduling appointments.

Removing barriers to your care and treatment. Helping patients and their families navigate the process of using insurance to pay for care. Identifying resources for clients to overcome barriers to care, such as transportation, housing, and childcare arrangements.

Linking patients to translation services. The impacts of ScreenNJ are rooted deeply in partnerships throughout New Jersey. In addition to community and professional education, ScreenNJ provides technical assistance including educational materials, supplies, rentals such as an inflatable colon, and support for system-level practice improvement.

Technical assistance is a way of providing guidance and targeted support to organizations that are currently or looking to provide education about cancer prevention, screening, and more. This collaboration can support the development of needs assessments, evidence-based program planning, design, implementation, evaluation, and more.

Reach out to ScreenNJ to learn more about how we can help you and your organization bring evidence-based education to the communities that you serve. Collaborating for Our Communities ScreenNJ is a collaborative project of organizations across New Jersey committed to reducing cancer incidence and mortality through an effective cancer prevention and screening project.

We welcome all of our partners to utilize these resources and encourage you to bookmark them for ongoing access. Visit our listing of partners and providers participating in the ScreenNJ network. Current partners who need assistance, click here to contact us.

Hosting a screening, education, or outreach event? Submit it for our listings. Need support with something that is not listed here?

Reach out and we'll be in touch. The ScreenNJ Community Award Program is back! This year, we’re offering Patient Navigation and Education Award opportunities for organizations working to advance cancer prevention and screening across New Jersey.

The ScreenNJ Community Award Program application period runs from March 9th to April 30th, 2026. To learn more about the award, please view our FY27 Community Award Request for Proposals . To apply, please access the application portal.

Join our Informational Webinars on March 9 & 11 to get all the details before the April 30th deadline. We encourage you to attend our informational webinars (live, recorded) for more information : Session 1: Overview of the RFP and Q&A Date: March 9, 2026, 12-1pm Session 2: Introduction to InfoReady and Q&A Date: March 11, 2026, 12-1pm Questions? Email us at ScreenNJ@cinj.

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