Vision

Cancer Patients Alliance aims to ensure that everyone, regardless of barriers, health disparities and the local unavailability of cancer care for low-income people, has equal access to treatment and care for cancer in Monterey County, CA, especially among Salinas Valley’s low-income, Latino and farmworker communities. Over the next three to five years, Cancer Patients Alliance is working to accomplish this by striving to achieve the following goals: 1. Barriers to accessing cancer treatment are overcome by Cancer Patients Alliance’s targeted advocacy and assistance in navigating the healthcare system to locate treatment when little is available for low-income community members. 2. Cancer patients, their families and at-risk patients are able to make informed decisions about cancer treatment and care for improved cancer outcomes as a result of receiving accessible and understandable information from Cancer Patients Alliance, enabling patients to partner with their medical providers.

Goals

1. 1.To grow, expand, and scale our programs Cancer Patients Alliance works with healthcare providers and the healthcare system to improve the situation for people with cancer, ranging from obtaining treatment for individuals to advocating for system wide changes and policy changes.
2. 2.Focusing on core programs Cancer Patients Alliance works with individual cancer patients who come to us daily because they have no other options to receive cancer treatment and care. CPA engages the community and builds trust by going into the neighborhoods and fields where people live and work to offer help when they think none exists and to elevate patients’ voices.
3. 3.CPA brings the credibility of a Science Board of world-renowned oncologists that, coupled with our independence as a nonprofit, has enabled us to foster and cultivate long-standing relationships with local healthcare providers, large and small, while speaking as patients.