Teal Diva

Today an accurate screening for Ovarian cancer is not available. It is our goal to educate as many women as possible on the signs and symptoms of Ovarian cancer. We also direct our aim toward the celebration of life and to honor those who have lost their lives to Ovarian cancer.

Teal Diva strategically utilizes education, advocacy and celebration to accomplish our goals. Through community events such as 5K runs and local sporting events, through college campus speaking engagements, and through our social media presence we are able to meet a educational need that will help women to identify the signs and symptoms of Ovarian cancer.

The Founder and Executive Director was selected by the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance to represent the State of North Carolina in Washington DC as an Advocacy Leader. Through advocacy, she attends functions on Capital Hill to fight for Federal funding which supports research and awareness.

Lastly, we strategically address our goals of celebration and survivor support though internal programming which includes dignity shirts (chemo shirts), a yearly retreat *not being held in 2020 due to Covid-19 and community partnerships activities which include attendance to our Charlotte NFL team home games for both a survivor and a caregiver.

We rely on supports via donations and fundraisers. Our Executive Director has partnerships across the ovarian cancer community, region and nationwide. She strategically sets plans to work with other organizations supporting survivors and caregivers.

In the tenure of Teal Diva, we have established a survivor support network that expands across the United States. Through our programming, we have successfully hosted 4 survivor retreats servicing 69 women, we have hosted 9 5k run/walk events in two states, we have created a community of survivors in the Charlotte, NC area, we have donated over 1,000 chemo port shirts, and we have partnered with Charlotte area, NC and national partners to create awareness and research for ovarian cancer. Our Executive Director also had the opportunity to join the Peer Reviewed Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) as a consumer advocate. In this role, she participated in the evaluation of research applications submitted to the OCRP sponsored by the Department of Defense. As a consumer reviewer, she was a full voting member, (along with prominent scientists) at meetings to help determine how the $20 million appropriated by Congress for Fiscal Year 2018 will be spent on Ovarian Cancer research.
Moving forward, we will be focusing on growing our survivor support programs: Chemo Dignity Shirts, Yes Girl Home Maintenance Volunteer program, and the gynecologic cancer survivor retreat. We will be working to get the shirts in every hospital throughout North and South Carolina that provides chemotherapy. We will be growing the Yes Girl program, taking on more projects and expanding from Charlotte to other communities. And we will be adding an additional retreat so we can service 20 additional women providing them with a reset after their treatment.