Denver Black Church Inititiative on Cancer

描述（由申请人提供）：该申请是根据RFA MD-05-002提交的，它将为获奖的Metro Denver Black Church Initiative （MDBCI）、Faith & Health Ministries （FHM）、来自AMC癌症研究中心的杰出资深行为科学家以及科罗拉多大学健康科学中心的科学教师之间的社区参与性研究提供动态和独特的合作伙伴关系。以及科罗拉多大学综合癌症中心。这一伙伴关系的主要目标是减少居住在丹佛市东北部的非洲裔美国人之间与癌症相关的健康差距，科罗拉多州近30%的非洲裔美国人居住在那里，约占居住在丹佛市所有非洲裔美国人的77%。在这个地区，大约三分之一的成年人口是MDBCI附属教会的成员。这份申请描述了一个伙伴关系结构和过程，包括伙伴关系峰会、研究研讨会、社区咨询委员会和外部咨询委员会，以及一个明确的伙伴关系过程评估计划，从中吸取的经验教训和建议将有利于未来发展伙伴关系的努力，特别是涉及信仰组织。拟议的合作的其他重要特点包括社区伙伴关系的理论基础，其中包括更现代的观点，即这种伙伴关系应以社区授权、自助和合作为基础，其目标是社区复兴。明确关注行为科学理论和创新理论的传播来指导这一努力也值得注意。正如本文所建议的那样，这一伙伴关系将寻求对不是一种而是两种癌症预防和控制干预措施进行试点测试，以减少健康差距，并将这项研究扩展到更大规模的功效和有效性试验，并进入传播阶段，最终将这项研究的范围扩展到科罗拉多州以外的地区。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application, which is being submitted in response to RFA MD-05-002, will allow for a dynamic and unique partnership for community-based participatory research between the award winning Metro Denver Black Church Initiative (MDBCI), Faith & Health Ministries (FHM), and an outstanding group of senior behavioral scientists drawn from the AMC Cancer Research Center, as well as science faculty from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and the University of Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center. The main goal of this partnership is to reduce cancer-related health disparities among African Americans living in northeast Denver, where nearly 30% of all African-Americans in the State of Colorado reside, representing about 77% of all African Americans living in Denver. Within this area about one-in-three of the adult population are members of churches affiliated with MDBCI. Described in this application is a partnership structure and process that will include Partnership Summits, Research Workshops, a Community Advisory Board and an External Advisory Board, as well as a definitive program of partnership process evaluation, where lessons learned and recommendations will be distilled to benefit future efforts at partnership development, particularly involving faith-based organizations. Other significant features of the proposed collaboration include the theoretical foundations of community-based partnership, incorporating the more contemporary view that such partnership should be based on Community empowerment, self-help and collaboration, and where the goal is community regeneration. An explicit focus on behavioral science theory and Diffusion of Innovative Theory to guide this effort are also noteworthy. As proposed herein, this partnership will seek to pilot test not one but two cancer prevention and control interventions to reduce health disparities, with the long-term vision of extending this research to larger-scale efficacy and effectiveness trials, and to a dissemination phase that would ultimately extend the reach of this research beyond the boundaries of Colorado.