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Project Description
Phase I
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. Activities focus on establishing an infrastructure including
multidisciplinary professionals, primary community partners (State
Baptist Young Woman’s Auxiliary (YWA) of the Woman’s Baptist Education
and Missionary Convention (BEMC) of South Carolina and South Carolina
Primary Health Care Association), and secondary partners. Organizations
and individuals involved in this process will set 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 with community
partners. A key component of all phases will be sharing results and
lessons with community partners and the larger African American
community and to address community interests related to cancer health
disparities.
Phase II
The goal of Phase II of the SCCDCN is to implement community-based
participatory research, education, and training programs to reduce
cancer health disparities. Research activities in this phase focus on
conducting at least two pilot community-based participatory research
projects with within affiliated BEMC congregations working with the
State Baptist Young Woman’s Auxiliary, 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
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. |
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