Outreach Core

总结：外展是U 54的核心活动，以及麻省大学波士顿分校- DF/HCC合作伙伴外展 核心提出了一个创新的方法来进行这些努力。核心将侧重于与以下方面建立关系： 外部合作伙伴，促进以证据为基础的健康促进活动，培训学生在社区为基础的 和社区参与的研究，支持U 54研究项目，并参加NCI国家 外联网络活动。在上一个项目期间，我们的U 54合作伙伴关系建立了一个强大的轨道 在黑人和拉丁裔教会促进循证和循证干预方面的记录， 教区，在研究中培训代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生，传播NCI NON 生物库/生物标本教育计划，并就招募和保留U 54研究人员提供建议，以及 外展研究项目规划。我们的目标是在这个坚实的基础上扩大， 可以从马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校/HCC的资源和专业知识中受益的社区组织 伙伴关系外联核心将采取参与性办法，让地方和区域社区参与， 这些组织致力于癌症预防，特别是在服务不足的社区。核心 将在这些组织中建设使用现有证据的能力，这是传播的标志， 执行科学。这一方法响应：a）我们的计划指导的建议 委员会应包括更新申请的传播和实施重点，B） 关于支持开展健康促进活动和让社区组织参与的《行动纲要》，c） 癌症差异研究的发展越来越强调循证方法， 加速知识从研究到实践的转化，d）NIH呼吁 将研究、能力建设和外联工作结合起来，以解决差距问题。外联核心的活动 将专注于两个合作伙伴社区：大波士顿地区和马萨诸塞州劳伦斯，利用团队的 在这些领域的紧密联系。代表社区组织的主要合作伙伴将参与 波士顿和劳伦斯通过社区咨询委员会（具体目标1）;和需求评估将 开展了一项旨在确定对癌症控制的兴趣和能力的活动，强调解决癌症差异问题 （具体目标2）。“外联核心”将在以下方面建设能力： 循证癌症控制规划（具体目标3A）和B）URM学生进行外展， 以社区为基础的癌症预防研究（具体目标3B）。最后，核心将支持 向地方组织和社区传播U 54伙伴关系的研究成果（具体 目标4）。通过在学术界和社区合作伙伴之间建立联系， 在社区组织和学生中，外联核心将为以下方面创造可持续的基础设施： 该地区的癌症控制。 1

Summary: Outreach is a core activity of the U54, and the UMass Boston – DF/HCC Partnership Outreach Core proposes an innovative approach to these efforts. The Core will focus on building relationships with outside partners, promoting evidence-based health promotion activities, training students in community-based and community-engaged research, supporting U54 research projects, and participating in NCI National Outreach Network (NON) activities. In the previous project period, our U54 Partnership built a strong track record in promoting evidence-based and evidence-informed interventions in Black and Latino churches and parishes, training underrepresented minority (URM) students in research, disseminating the NCI NON biobanking/ biospecimens education program, and advising U54 researchers on recruitment and retention, and outreach research project planning. The goal is to expand on this strong foundation to broaden the range of community organizations that can benefit from the resources and expertise of the UMass Boston-DF/HCC Partnership. The Outreach Core will take a participatory approach to engage local and regional community- based organizations engaged in cancer prevention, particularly among underserved communities. The Core will build capacity in these organizations to use existing evidence, a hallmark of dissemination and implementation science. This approach responds to: a) the recommendation of our Program Steering Committee to include a dissemination and implementation focus for the renewal application, b) the emphasis in the FOA on supporting the delivery of health promotion activities and engaging community organizations, c) developments in the study of cancer disparities that increasingly emphasize evidence-based approaches to accelerate the translation of knowledge from research to practice settings, and d) calls from the NIH to integrate research, capacity-building, and outreach to address disparities. The activities of the Outreach Core will focus on two partner communities: the Greater Boston area and Lawrence, MA, leveraging the team’s strong relationships in these areas. Key partners representing community organizations will be engaged in Boston and Lawrence through a Community Advisory Board (Specific Aim 1); and a needs assessment will be conducted to identify interest in and capacity for cancer control, emphasizing addressing cancer disparities (Specific Aim 2). The Outreach Core will build capacity among: a) community organizations to engage in evidence-based cancer control programming (Specific Aim 3A) and b) URM students to conduct outreach and community-based research for cancer prevention (Specific Aim 3B). Finally, the Core will support the dissemination of research findings from the U54 Partnership to local organizations and communities (Specific Aim 4). By building connections between academia and community partners and also by building capacity among community organizations and students, the Outreach Core will create sustainable infrastructure for cancer control in the region. 1