Outreach Core

外展核心--摘要 少数族裔和其他未得到充分服务的弱势群体的癌症发病率和死亡率 芝加哥的人口大大高于大多数癌症(伊利诺伊州癌症)的全国平均水平 注册表)。解决这些差距需要文化和语言上相关的社区驱动 接近了。2015年，由社区成员和三大学术机构组成的财团在 芝加哥大学、伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)、东北伊利诺伊大学(NEIU)和罗伯特·H·卢里 西北大学综合癌症中心(NU-LCC)，获得NCI U54资金，建立 芝加哥癌症健康公平合作组织(Chicago AgoCHEC)，旨在促进严格和有意义的 研究、教育、培训和社区外展/参与，以促进卫生公平。通过 最初的U54奖，外联核心确定了社区需求，并提供了领导和方案 支持以社区为基础的癌症教育、参与和外联活动。在这次更新中， 芝加哥-CHEC推广核心的拟议活动将建立在现有优势的基础上，既有优势，也有正在进行的优势 工作、成就和从第一届U54奖中吸取的教训，以提升芝加哥的集体 对减少癌症不平等的影响。外联核心今后五年的一个主要重点领域将是 为服务不足和弱势人群制定有针对性的癌症支持努力。其中包括 下列不相互排斥的群体：残疾人、性少数群体和性别少数群体、有色人种以及 低收入癌症幸存者。建议的社区参与方法跨越了癌症的整个过程， 包括预防、筛查和早期发现、社区教育和癌症治疗 和生存能力。外联核心的具体目标是：(1)促进社区伙伴关系和开展 正在进行的需求评估，以确定新的和创新的机会领域，包括外联研究 社区参与的活动将惠及健康差距人群中的个人；(2)实施 在整个癌症过程中开展外展和教育活动； 社区合作伙伴、教师和学生之间公平的研究能力；(4)计划、实施和评估 NCI全国外展网络在当地的活动；以及(5)严格评估 外联核心的既定目标是使用全面的评价战略。一个高效和多样化的三方-- 具有互补专业知识的机构领导团队将领导这些活动，并由经验丰富的人员提供支持 拥有强大的临床和社区网络的社区健康教育者。社区指导委员会 将指导拟定和实施拟议的外联和接触活动。这个 外展核心将利用每个芝加哥化学合作伙伴学术机构与芝加哥大学的众多联系 不同的社区和社区组织共同开展旨在促进癌症发展的活动 健康公平。

OUTREACH CORE – ABSTRACT Cancer incidence and mortality rates for racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved and vulnerable populations are substantially higher in Chicago than the national average for most cancers (Illinois State Cancer Registry). Addressing these disparities demands culturally and linguistically relevant community-driven approaches. In 2015, a consortium comprised of community members and three major academic institutions in Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU), and the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University (NU-LCC), secured NCI U54 funding to establish the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (ChicagoCHEC), which aims to foster rigorous and meaningful research, education, training, and community outreach/engagement to advance health equity. Through the original U54 award, the Outreach Core identified community needs, and provided leadership and programmatic support for community-based cancer education, engagement, and outreach activities. In this renewal, the proposed activities of the ChicagoCHEC Outreach Core will build upon the existing strengths, prior and ongoing work, accomplishments, and lessons learned from the first U54 award to elevate ChicagoCHEC’s collective impact on reducing cancer inequities. A major area of the Outreach Core’s focus for the next five years will be to develop targeted cancer support efforts for underserved and vulnerable populations. These include the following non-mutually exclusive groups: people with disabilities, sexual and gender minorities, men of color, and low-income cancer survivors. Proposed community engagement approaches span the cancer continuum, encompassing prevention, screening and early detection, community-based education, and cancer treatment and survivorship. Specific aims of the Outreach Core are to: (1) Foster community partnerships and conduct ongoing needs assessment to identify new and innovative areas of opportunity, including outreach research, for community-engaged activities that will reach individuals from health disparities populations; (2) Implement outreach and education activities across the cancer continuum; (3) Foster opportunities for building cancer health equity research capacity among community partners, faculty, and students; (4) Plan, implement, and evaluate NCI National Outreach Network activities locally; and (5) Rigorously evaluate achievement and progress of the Outreach Core’s stated aims using a comprehensive evaluation strategy. A highly effective and diverse tri- institutional leadership team with complementary expertise will lead these activities, supported by experienced Community Health Educators with strong clinical and community networks. A Community Steering Committee will guide the development and implementation of the proposed outreach and engagement activities. The Outreach Core will leverage each ChicagoCHEC partner academic institution’s numerous ties to Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods and community organizations in its activities collectively aimed at advancing cancer health equity.