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Communities of Texas Cancer  Activity  Research  Education  Support

Communities of Texas Cancer  Activity  Research  Education  Support. CPCRN meeting: October 19, 2010 Chapel Hill, NC.

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Communities of Texas Cancer  Activity  Research  Education  Support

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  1. Communities of TexasCancerActivityResearchEducationSupport CPCRN meeting: October 19, 2010 Chapel Hill, NC Educational programs of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service are open to all people without regard to race, color, sex, disability, religion, age, or national origin. The Texas A&M University System, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the County Commissioners Courts of Texas Cooperating.

  2. Projects Underway: • Survivorship Survey at Relay for Life • Digital Divide Review • Youth Tobacco Awareness Program • Mini-grants • Friend to Friend dissemination In search of funding: • Surviving &Thriving after Recovery (STAR) • Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening, Outreach, Access and Referral (SOAR) • Skin Cancer Prevention with hairdressers-Talkin’ About Better Skin (TABS)

  3. Mini-grants • Utilized Emory University’s experience and input from community connections • Projects utilize CDC recommended strategies for increasing physical activity • Progress to date: • May-RFAs released • June-Community training session • July-received 6 applications • August-funded 5 projects • September-held grantee kickoff meeting

  4. Trail based project Children’s based project Leon Bell Robertson Madison Brazos Williamson Milam Grimes Burleson Lee Washington Mini-grant Projects • Funded Projects: • Brazos Valley Community Action Agency, Inc. (BVCAA) • The Children’s Museum of Brazos Valley • City of Navasota Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department • City of Temple Parks and Leisure Department • Texas AgriLife Extension Service – Leon County

  5. Mini-grant Projects

  6. Mini-grant Projects • There are 2 projects with children, 2 projects in parks and 1 project in a downtown

  7. Take a walk through downtown

  8. Mini-grant common themes • Synergies among similar projects (kids, parks, etc.) • Standardized pre/post assessments • Similar barriers and challenges among projects • Community mobilization is essential and challenging for each project

  9. Friend to Friend • Research Tested Intervention Program • Planning for dissemination in 2011 and 2012 • Implemented by trained AgriLife Extension agents • 4-6 community volunteers will assist each County agent with: • Marketing • Planning • Program implementation

  10. Friend to Friend • 40 selected counties will implement the program • 32 of them are wholly medically underserved or have no designation at all • 8 of them are partially underserved • Program will be ready for full statewide roll-out after two years • Will be sustainable through AgriLife’s existing infrastructure

  11. Friend to Friend • Adaptations: • Addition of cervical cancer screening education • To meet the needs of older Caucasian, Latinas, and African Americans in rural Texas • Updates with current ACS screening guidelines • Update assessment tools

  12. Friend to Friend • Challenges: • Interventions often improve with subsequent iterations—but this might not be in R-TIPS material • Implementation manual not easily modified (locked PDF format) • Finding sources of mammograms and pap tests in very rural West Texas communities • BCCS clinics are non-existent in these areas and would require hundreds of miles of travel • Looking into a mobile van, but this is not a sustainable solution

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