NACP Outreach Goals
Our long-term goal for the Outreach Core of the Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention is to strengthen the capacity and infrastructure to provide sustained, community-based cancer education, screening and care services to advance cancer health equity. A guiding principle of the OEC is collaboration, specifically the continuation and expansion of partnerships with institutional partners, Native Nations and Native American=-serving entities to build regional capacity through coalition building, supporting tribes’ own efforts to bring cancer related services to their citizens, and mentoring NACP investigative teams to disseminate relevant research results to Native Nations.
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Aims
In the next period of funding, the OEC will support AZ’s Native Nations to build and maintain cancer prevention and support programs, contribute to tribes’ capacity to provide local cancer patient navigation and improve UACC and NAU researchers’ dissemination skills to reach tribal communities.
- Arizona will enhance AZ Native Nation’s cancer patient navigation capacity through CHR training and mentorship across the cancer care continuum.
- Arizona will facilitate a national Intertribal center network to build programmatic knowledge, funding, and infrastructure for AZ’s tribal cancer related activities.
- Arizona will mentor and guide NACP research teams in effective community-based dissemination and application of research activities through enhanced training.
- Contribute to the National Cancer Institute’s National Outreach Network (NON) and collaborate with NACP’s Community Advisory Committee (CAC) to develop, prioritize, implement, and evaluate requested cancer-related activities to benefit Native American communities.
To accomplish these aims, the Outreach Core leadership and staff collaborate with the other NACP Cores, especially the Research Education Core and the GUIDeS Shared Resource.
Outreach Publications for Conducting Research in Native American Communities
Contacts
University of Arizona Cancer Center: Dr. Julie Armin, jarmin@arizona.edu
NAU: Nicky Teufel-Shone, nicky.teufel@nau.edu