Chicago-based Access Community Health Network, along with lead sponsor, the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues, Congresswomen Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Mary Fallin (R-OK), as well as co-sponsors the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the House Cancer Caucus held a Pin-A-Sister™/Examinate Comadre™ pinning ceremony, which was unveiled by Donna Thompson, at a breakfast last month in the Gold Room of the Rayburn House Office Building.The ACCESS-led Pin-A-Sister™/Examinate Comadre™ campaign is an initiative that was launched in Illinois in 2007.
This campaign has now expanded to seven states, including Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virginia and South Carolina.