Table 3.

Subthemes and exemplar quotes corresponding to the strategies to access resources theme

Subtheme: individual adaptive measures
Speaker	Quote
Leader	We have to try to change people’s mindset too. A lot of times our community, we just don’t wanna go to the doctor.
Provider	A lot of our patients wait, or they don’t seek care until that disease or chronic condition is well based.
Resident	You’ve got to be involved with your own health, and you can’t let a doctor take, you know, t- take that job. Your job is to know your body and to - to help with the decision making.
Resident	You gotta make up your mind whether you gonna live through it or whether you’re gonna die trying.
Resident	I think that the information is there, but we’re really lax with- with going after the knowledge that’s there for us.
Subtheme: formal and informal organizational-level strategies
Leader	Has grant monies for individuals that have no health insurance or health insurance that doesn’t cover the appropriate testing for breast cancer or any type of cervical cancer
Resident	And, you know, local religious groups that would offer rides for anyone who needs them. But nothing really organized and structured.
Resident	The local churches because, many times, there’s been a lot of families that are not able to, um—well, they help financially a lot of times with families who are not able, uh, to get to and from—when they’ve got, um, long-term issues, trying to get to and from treatments and things like that.
Resident	In our history of the memorial, we’ve been able to, since 1997 when we officially got started, but since ’95, actually, we’ve been able to give out almost $300,000.00 to cancer patients in Johnson County.
Resident	They pretty much assigned you one. And if you wanted to use it, you would just call her on the phone, and she - and she, specifically, would find you while you were in treatment and start from there and see, you know, what you were doing and how you were progressing.