Women in
Government Honors CLUW Member Jeoin Ward,
Cervical Cancer
Prevention Works with Highest Awards
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| CLUW Cervical Cancer Prevention Works (represented by Director Carolyn Jacobson, second from l) and CLUW member Jeoin Ward received Women in Government’s highest awards from ceremony emcee Dr. Donnica Moore (l) and WIG Chair Connie Lawson (r), an Indiana State Representative. Photo: Len Spoden |
A CLUW member, Jeoin Ward and a CLUW project, Cervical Cancer Prevention Works, recently received the Women in Government’s Presidential Leadership Award, which honors individuals and groups for advancing efforts to eliminate cervical cancer in the U.S. and worldwide.
The awards ceremony was held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on November 16 as part of the Third Annual HPV & Cervical Cancer Summit.
WIG is a non-profit, bi-partisan organization, representing women state legislators in the U.S.
The Summit is the nation’s largest cervical cancer gathering of state law makers, medical experts, advocates and public health officials, and is designed to develop national strategies for eliminating cervical cancer in the U.S.
In 2004 WIG launched the Challenge to Eliminate Cervical Cancer Campaign, which engages state legislators nationwide in policy and awareness initiatives to advance cervical cancer prevention. To date, all 50 states have introduced and/or enacted legislation or resolutions aimed at cervical cancer elimination.
Jeion Ward (former CLUW VA Asst. State Vice President and a member of the American Federation of Teachers) is a State Delegate, representing Hampton, VA. She was recognized for co-sponsoring the only legislation in the country to pass the state legislature requiring the HPV vaccine for entry for sixth grade. Del. Ward played a key role in passage of this landmark legislation.
Cervical Cancer Prevention Works (CCPW), created in 2005, with an unrestricted educational grant, empowers union women by providing them with information on how to prevent HPV and cervical cancer. Since its inception CCPW has been instrumental in raising awareness and affecting policy changes to eliminate this deadly disease. CCPW partners in its work with WIG. Carolyn Jacobson, who created and heads up CCPW, accepted the award on behalf of the project and CLUW.