South Carolina Cancer Disparities Community Networks

描述(由申请人提供)： 在南卡罗来纳州癌症差异社区网络(SCCDCN)的第一阶段，总体目标是发展和提高能力，以支持以社区为基础的参与式教育、研究和培训，以减少南卡罗来纳州非裔美国人之间的癌症健康差异。研究活动侧重于建立基础设施，包括多学科专业人员、主要社区合作伙伴(浸信会教育和传教士大会和南卡罗来纳州初级卫生保健协会)以及次要合作伙伴和合作者。参与这一进程的组织和个人将通过基于信仰的方法确定解决癌症健康差距的优先事项。此外，第一阶段的活动将包括与社区合作伙伴合作收集基线数据，提供癌症教育，并寻求资金支持与社区合作伙伴共同开发的试点研究项目。所有阶段的一个基本组成部分将是向社区合作伙伴和更大的非裔美国人社区传播，以确保研究人员解决与癌症健康差距有关的社区利益。SCCDCN第二阶段的目标是实际实施以社区为基础的参与性研究教育和培训计划，以减少癌症健康差距。这一阶段的研究活动集中于启动至少两个试点社区参与性研究项目，与BEMC会众一起，开发未来实施的其他项目，制定招募和培训研究人员和社区从业人员进行癌症健康差异研究的战略计划，以及评估方案和项目具体活动。SCCDCN的第三阶段将侧重于制度化、扩展和正式传播减少癌症健康差距的活动，方法是让更多的社区伙伴参与进来，寻求方案资金，并传播循证信息，以促进减少南卡罗来纳州非裔美国人的癌症健康差距

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In Phase I of the South Carolina Cancer Disparities Community Network (SCCDCN), the overall goal is to develop and increase capacity to support community-based participatory education, research, and training to reduce cancer health disparities among African Americans in South Carolina. Research activities focus on establishing an infrastructure including multidisciplinary professionals, primary community partners (Baptist Education and Missionary Convention and South Carolina Primary Health Care Association), and secondary partners and collaborators. Organizations and individuals involved in this process will determine priorities for addressing cancer health disparities through a faith-based approach. Further, Phase I activities will include working with community partners to collect baseline data, provide cancer education, and seek funding to support pilot research projects developed in concert with community partners. An essential component of all phases will be dissemination to community partners and the larger African American community to ensure the researchers are addressing community interests related to cancer health disparities. The goal of Phase II of the SCCDCN is to actually implement community-based participatory research education, and training programs to reduce cancer health disparities. Research activities in this phase focus on initiating at least two pilot community-based participatory research projects with BEMC congregations, developing additional projects for future implementation, constructing a strategic plan for recruiting and training researchers and community practitioners to conduct cancer health disparities research, and evaluating programmatic and project-specific activities. Phase III of the SCCDCN will, focus on institutionalizing, expanding, and formally disseminating activities that reduce cancer health disparities through involving additional community partners, seeking programmatic funding, and disseminating evidence-based information to promote reduction of cancer health disparities among African Americans in South Carolina