National LGBT Cancer Network: People

Harriet E. Mannheim

Harriet E. Mannheim, LCSW, has served the residents of NYC in community-based, governmental and institutional environments for over 30 years as a social worker, community advocate and political activist.

• Harriet is the Manager for Supportive Services for the NYU Clinical Cancer Center. She manages and coordinates outpatient social work, nutrition, pain management and genetic counseling support with nursing and inpatient hospital care. She obtained LGBT sensitivity training for inter-disciplinary clinical work.
• Harriet is the co-chair the Lesbian Cancer Support Consortium, a network of oncology social workers and cancer survivors that meet to share resources, improve treatment of LBT survivors in institutions and agencies and reach out to underserved and underinsured LBT survivors in NYC.
• Harriet was one of the original program managers of Gilda's Club New York City, building a free cancer support program. She later became Director of Operations. Harriet wrote curricula, trained affiliates throughout the country and helped open a second site in Brooklyn for underserved residents. It also featured a support group for lesbian couples affected by cancer.
• Harriet has received numerous honors and awards, including being named "New York City Hometown Hero", by WCBS-TV, New York City in 2000. In 1987. Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, naming November 23, 1987, "Harriet E. Mannheim Day" for service to citizens of Community Board #2, Manhattan.
• Harriet has presented at the Association of Oncology Social Workers, at the Oncology Nurses Society and at other professional and interdisciplinary organizations and community groups. She has written abstracts for professional organizations, drafted the training curriculum for Gilda's Club, and helped prepare grants for National designation.
• Harriet is a Faculty Advisor for the Masters of Social Work Program at The Hunter College School of Social Work.