Communities of TexasCancerActivityResearchEducationSupp
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CPCRN meeting: October 19, 2010
Chapel Hill, NC
Educational programs of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service are open to all people without regard to race, color, sex, disability, religion, age, or national origin. The Texas A&M University System, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the County Commissioners Courts of Texas Cooperating.
Underway:
Survivorship Survey at Relay for Life Digital Divide Review Youth Tobacco Awareness Program Mini-grants Friend to Friend dissemination
In search of funding:
Surviving &Thriving after Recovery (STAR) Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening, Outreach,
Access and Referral (SOAR) Skin Cancer Prevention with hairdressers-Talkin’ About
Better Skin (TABS)
Projects
Utilized Emory University’s experience and input from community connections
Projects utilize CDC recommended strategies for increasing physical activity
Progress to date:
Mini-grants
May-RFAs released
June-Community training session
July-received 6 applications
August-funded 5 projects
September-held grantee kickoff meeting
Mini-grant Projects
Leon
RobertsonBell
Williamson Milam
Lee
Burleson
Brazos
Madison
Grimes
Washington
Trail based project
Children’s based project
Funded Projects:• Brazos Valley Community
Action Agency, Inc. (BVCAA)• The Children’s Museum of
Brazos Valley
• City of Navasota Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department
• City of Temple Parks and Leisure Department
• Texas AgriLife Extension Service – Leon County
Mini-grant Projects
Funded Organization Project Centerpiece
Brazos Valley Community Action Agency, Inc. (BVCAA)
Downtown Bryan walking trail
The Children’s Museum of Brazos Valley Making an outdoor space safe and usable for kids to be active
City of Navasota Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department
Adding lights and signs to make a city trail usable at night
City of Temple Parks and Leisure Department
Adding signs and trees to a trail to increase utilization
Texas AgriLife Extension Service – Leon County
Implementing physical activity programming in schools while mobilizing community walking groups
There are 2 projects with children, 2 projects in parks and 1 project in a downtown
Mini-grant Projects
Take a walk through downtown
Mini-grant common themes
Synergies among similar projects (kids, parks, etc.)
Standardized pre/post assessments Similar barriers and challenges among
projects Community mobilization is essential and
challenging for each project
Friend to
Friend•Research Tested Intervention Program•Planning for dissemination in 2011 and 2012•Implemented by trained AgriLife Extension agents •4-6 community volunteers will assist each County agent with:
•Marketing•Planning•Program implementation
Friend to Friend
•40 selected counties will implement the program
•32 of them are wholly medically underserved or have no designation at all•8 of them are partially underserved
•Program will be ready for full statewide roll-out after two years
•Will be sustainable through AgriLife’s existing infrastructure
Friend to Friend
•Adaptations:•Addition of cervical cancer screening education•To meet the needs of older Caucasian, Latinas, and African Americans in rural Texas•Updates with current ACS screening guidelines•Update assessment tools
Friend to Friend
•Challenges:•Interventions often improve with subsequent iterations—but this might not be in R-TIPS material•Implementation manual not easily modified (locked PDF format)•Finding sources of mammograms and pap tests in very rural West Texas communities
•BCCS clinics are non-existent in these areas and would require hundreds of miles of travel•Looking into a mobile van, but this is not a sustainable solution