(MASS CONECT) Mass. Community Networks

描述（由申请人提供）： 通过教育、研究和培训消除癌症差异的马萨诸塞州社区网络（MASS CONECT）是一项综合性计划倡议，将哈佛大学公共卫生学院（HSPH）和达纳法伯/哈佛癌症中心（DF/HCC）与三个城市马萨诸塞州低社会经济地位社区（SEP）的多个社区合作伙伴联合起来。 MASS CONECT将推进癌症教育、基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）、培训（针对初级教师、基层领导和媒体）以及为马萨诸塞州的低SEP少数民族人口提供服务。 这三个社区分别是波士顿和伍斯特（新英格兰最大的两个城市），以及劳伦斯（新英格兰最贫穷的城市）。 在这些社区，MASS CONECT将联合包括主要政策制定者在内的关键合作伙伴，制定有效的方法来减少癌症差异。 我们的具体目标是对这些低SEP马萨诸塞州社区进行干预，以改善社区水平癌症差异的数据（利用社区对癌症差异数据的看法以及地理编码和绘图技术的形成性研究）;通过受人尊敬的社区联盟提供领导，癌症教育和培训;教育和培训当地媒体，以增加对癌症差异的报道;通过预防和临床服务核心，促进获得关键的癌症控制和治疗服务;提供需求评估，从而制定针对社区的计划，以弥补差距（包括确定政策机会，以克服最佳癌症控制和治疗方面的障碍）;评估三个目标社区与癌症差异相关的结果（包括与预防和筛查、差异研究以及媒体对癌症差异的报道有关的结果）;并与NCI的癌症控制和人口科学部门以及NCI减少癌症健康差异中心建立关系

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Massachusetts Community Networks to Eliminate Cancer Disparities through Education, Research, and Training (MASS CONECT) is a comprehensive program initiative that will uniquely unite the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) with multiple community partners in three urban Massachusetts communities of low socioeconomic position (SEP). MASS CONECT will advance cancer education, community-based participatory research (CBPR), training (for junior faculty, grassroots leaders, and the media), and services for low SEP minority populations in Massachusetts. The three communities are Boston and Worcester (the two largest cities in New England), and Lawrence (the poorest city in New England). In these communities, MASS CONECT will unite key partners, including major policy makers, to develop effective ways to reduce cancer disparities. Our specific aims are to intervene in each of these low SEP Massachusetts communities to improve data on community-level cancer disparities (using formative research on community perceptions of cancer disparities data and also geocoding and mapping techniques); provide leadership, cancer education, and training through respected community coalitions; educate and train local media to increase their coverage of stories on cancer disparities; promote access to key cancer control and treatment services through a prevention and clinical services core; provide needs assessments that will lead to a community-specific plan to address gaps (including identifying policy opportunities to overcome barriers to optimal cancer control and treatment); evaluate outcomes related to cancer disparities in the three target communities (including outcomes relevant to prevention and screening, disparities research, and coverage of cancer disparities in the media); and establish relationships with NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Populations Sciences and the NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities