Community Outreach
COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM FOR CANCER CONTROL AND PREVENTION The Community Cancer Outreach, Prevention and Control Program conducts cancer prevention and control through community-partnered participatory research, bidirectional educational exchange, and capacity building with its community partners in underserved and/or socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, predominantly in the South Los Angeles Area. The Program has continued to conduct community-partnered research with support of pilot projects between community and academic faculty.
ACTIVITIES
- Community Academic Council (30 Members)
- Latino Community Academic Council (15 Members)
- Prevention, Treatment and Control of Cancer in Our Community Conference Series
- Pilot and Program Sponsored Research Projects
PARTNERSHIPS
- The Community Faculty Program, Division of Community Engagement at Charles Drew University (CDU):
- Collaborative manuscript preparation and partnered proposals with Program members.
- Healthy African-American Families II
- Originator of the Community Partnered Participatory Research Model, host of CAC meetings, and Co-sponsor of the Buildings Bridges Community Conference series.
- UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Cancer Prevention and Control Research Center:
- Providing research expertise on survey design, analysis, and manuscripts.
- The Accelerating Excellence in Translational Science (AXIS) Center at CDU:
- Providing additional statistical and programming staff for quantitative studies, and co-sponsorship of conferences and pilots.
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI):
- UCLA, CDU, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, and UCLA Harbor Hospital/LA BioMed: Conference co-sponsorship and support for Health Policy center efforts
- UCLA Center of Health Policy:
- Provided summary statistics on cancer risk, prevalence, and mortality and participated in shared analyses with CAC members.
- South LA Patient Navigation and Wellness Center (PNWC):
- This is the first navigation and wellness center in South Los Angeles and is housed within CDU and the adjoining MLK-MACC. To date, the navigators (all bilingual in Spanish) have been heavily engaged in the Partnership, including participation in Community Cancer Outreach conferences. PNWC is a local resource for the U54 to help patients overcome access/follow-up barriers to receiving care and participating in research activities if elected.
- This is the first navigation and wellness center in South Los Angeles and is housed within CDU and the adjoining MLK-MACC. To date, the navigators (all bilingual in Spanish) have been heavily engaged in the Partnership, including participation in Community Cancer Outreach conferences. PNWC is a local resource for the U54 to help patients overcome access/follow-up barriers to receiving care and participating in research activities if elected.
EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS
- The American Cancer Society, South Los Angeles Leadership Council: Conference Co-sponsorship.
- Celebrate Life Cancer Ministry Cancer Survivor Network: Co-investigators on U54 pilot project and patient navigation and wellness center project.
- Coalition of (11) faith-based organizations: Developed as a result of Present Your Body pilot project
- Martin Luther King Multispecialty Ambulatory Care Center (MLK-MACC); Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LADHS): Co-sponsor of patient navigation and wellness center project
- The Los Angeles Urban League: Co-sponsor of patient navigation and wellness center project
- Peoples Coordinated Services and Mixtec Indigenous Community Organization Project (MICOP): Proposal partnership in Community Capacity Building
- City of Hope Hospital, Center of Community Alliance for Research & Education: Proposal partnerships on Latino Survivorship Care Panning and Multilevel analyses of Cultural and Social Determinants of Health
- California Community Foundation: Co-Sponsor patient navigation and wellness center project and other projects