Basic Organization Information
The Prostate Net, Inc.
- Also Known As:
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The Prostate Net
- Physical Address:
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Newark, NJ
07101 3188
- EIN:
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22-3580508
- Web URL:
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www.theprostatenet.org
- NTEE Category:
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G Disease, Disorders, Medical Disciplines
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G01 Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
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E Health—General & Rehabilitative
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E70 Public Health Program
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H Medical Research
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H02 Management & Technical Assistance
- Year Founded:
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1997
- Ruling Year:
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1998
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Mission Statement
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<p>The core objective of The Prostate Net's mission is to
develop and maintain an interactive matrix of educational tools and services
that will:</p>
<p>1. Educate consumers most at-risk from a diagnosis of
prostate cancer and empower them to establish effective dialogues with their
healthcare professionals</p>
<p>2. Inform the community on other diseases and conditions
of negative impact</p>
<p>3. Motivate consumers to make informed choices as to
healthcare and lifestyle management</p>
<p>4. Lay the foundation for on-going health care information
dissemination and interaction between the community and healthcare
professionals </p>
<p>5. Create an interactive network to maximize broad scale,
mass communications of actionable health messages</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The strength of The Prostate Net's mission is aided by
organizations with which we are associated: American Society of Clinical
Oncology, Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program, American Association for Cancer
Research, Gilda's Club among others. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Our
active initiatives include, but are not limited to:</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong><u>Education:</u></strong></p>
<p>-
Patient
and professional Website - <a href="http://www.theprostatenet.org/">www.theprostatenet.org</a>
</p>
<p>-
Spanish
language site - <a href="http://theprostatenet.org/espanol/">http://theprostatenet.org/espanol/</a>
</p>
<p>-
Informational
brochures</p>
<p>-
PodCasts
and Cell Casts</p>
<p>-
Help
Line – 1.888.477.6763 – live counselor support</p>
<p>-
Cell
Cast Network</p>
<p>-
Educational
Symposia</p>
<p><strong><u> </u></strong></p>
<p><strong><u>Research:</u></strong></p>
<p>-
Continuing
partnerships with university based community studies</p>
<p>-
Expansion
of supplier relationships to local government agencies with</p>
<p>materials for consumer education/screening, training of
agency staff, etc.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong><u>Community
Interventions:</u></strong></p>
<p>-
<strong>The
Barbershop Initiative</strong><strong><sup>
</sup></strong><strong><sup>TM</sup></strong><sup> </sup>continues expansion to
more communities and</p>
<p>builds partnerships with other service agencies, e.g.
Gilda’s Club</p>
<p>-
<strong>Gentlemen,
Check Your Engines <sup>TM</sup></strong><sup>,</sup> an initiative focusing on the totality of</p>
<p>Men’s health issues featuring on-site health screenings</p>
<p>-
<strong>The
Crowns Project</strong>, a
faith-based effort that mobilizes women in churches</p>
<p>and religious organizations to motivate men in their
communities to become aware of the risk faced from prostate cancer and to get
screened</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Through
the 13 years of our existence we have expanded our reach throughout the U.S.
and to more than 50 countries. Our overarching objective is to continue to
provide service to an expanding range of consumer, healthcare, government,
university and service agencies to aid in reducing racial and socio-economic
health disparity through education, research and community intervention within
the context of an interactive communications entity. We inform to fight.</p>
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<p>Health disparity is an issue of grave importance to our
global society given the impact of lack of access to information and care to a
growing portion of our population. Because of socio-economic condition, racial
and/or ethnic impediments, and other situations that limit the potential to
achieve the best standards of health, there is a compelling need to identify
those programs that have been successful in helping to change the negative
paradigms.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Prostate Net has shown that it can provide an on-going
conduit for information from the medical establishment into at risk communities
not only relating to prostate cancer, but to the entire panoply of medical
conditions disproportionately manifest within these communities, e.g. diabetes,
cardiovascular disease, hypertension, etc. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Because it has been proven that a shift is increasing
toward electronic, broadcast and Internet-based media away from traditional
printed vehicles, The Prostate Net, utilizing its vision for the future, is
moving the thrust of consumer informational and patient educational vehicles
into those formats most receptive for the target audience of men 50 and over
with lower techno-literacy levels as well as preparing to embrace those younger
men who grown up with more technological awareness, e.g. Website renovations,
PodCasts, Cell Casting, etc. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Further, a demonstration of the effectiveness of this
program in influencing health-seeking behavior should naturally generalize to
education concerning clinical trials with the goal of increasing recruitment of
minority and underserved populations into such trials nationwide.</p>
Leadership
Mr. Virgil Howard Simons
Term:
Since
Apr
1996
Profile:
Virgil Simons is the Founder & President of The Prostate Net, a non-profit patient education and advocacy organization. Using the experiences gained as a 10 year survivor of prostate cancer and a patient advocate, Virgil has built an international organization that uses a matrix of informational techniques (Web site, 800#, email and personal team counselors, public forums, newsletters and community disease interventions) to address disease risk awareness and early disease interdiction.
The organization?s mission remains to provide credible and actionable information, using a synergistic blend of renowned cancer clinicians and researchers, cancer survivors and corporate supporters, that will enable patients, their families and health professionals to partner in making the appropriate choices to assure the best chance for cure and retention of their desired quality of life.
Virgil is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, American Society of Clinical Oncologists, Minorities in Cancer Research and serves as well as on the Integration Panel for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program for prostate cancer. He is a member of the External Advisory Board for Northwestern University Medical Center?s Prostate Cancer SPORE, the External Advisory Committee of the Research Center in Minority Institutions at Clark Atlanta University and the New Jersey State Prostate Cancer Workgroup.
Prior to his involvement in healthcare, he had an extensive career in the textile, financial services, international trade and retail markets as a senior executive and/or entrepreneur. Additionally, he has been a Lecturer in Marketing at Louisiana Tech University, The Fashion Institute of Technology, LaGuardia Community College as well as being a Member of the Board of Advisors for Texas Women?s University.
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