HEALCARE — Healthy Eating And Learning for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Education — is a 6-month plant-based nutrition program for men at risk for, or living with, prostate cancer. Free. Community-based. Built on Southern soul food.
Across Georgia, Black men are 2.3 times more likely to die from prostate cancer than white men. The reasons are layered: later screening, less access to care, and food environments that make healthy eating harder than it should be.
HEALCARE meets men where they are — in their churches and community centers, with the soul food and Southern recipes we love made plant-based. We can’t change every street you live on. But with screening, education, and good food, we can change the ending.
A community program led by Dr. Ashanda Esdaille at the Georgia Cancer Center, supported by the Urology Care Foundation Health Equity Fellowship.
HEALCARE is fully funded. There is no fee to join, no insurance required, and no out-of-pocket expense for food or program materials.
Sign up for one cohort and commit to all twelve dates. We don’t sign people up for individual sessions — the program works because the community grows together. Each cohort holds about 30 men.