# Presentation: 005469

## Community Networks Program (CNP)

**Kenneth Chu, Ph.D.****Chief, Disparities Research Branch**
**Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, NCI**

## Community Networks Program

**Community Networks Program**

**	****Purpose: Reduce cancer ****	****disparities through community-****	****based participatory education, ****	****research, and training  **
**	****Goal: Significantly improve ****	****access to and utilization of ****	****beneficial medical cancer ****	****interventions**

## CNP Program Phases

**2005**

**2010**

**2009**

**2008**

**2007**

**2006**

**Phase II: Disparities Research and Training**

**Phase III: Establish Credibility and Sustainability**

**Phase I: Capacity Building and Education**

## CNP Organization and Partnerships

- Project Steering Committee

**Community Networks Staff**
-   Project PI
-   Multidisciplinary professionals
-   Policy Analyst
-   Program Evaluator
-   Clinical Coordinator

- _Community Partnerships_
- Local Community-based organizations, government and non-government organizations

- _Clinical Partnerships_ *
- Primary and Secondary Prevention Facilities
-  Diagnosis and Treatment Facilities

- _Research/Training Partnerships_
- University(s) and other cancer research organizations/foundations

- Community Advisory Group *

- NCI Collaborations *

**Partnerships**

## Community Networks Program

**Community Networks Program**

## Phase I – Capacity Building and Education

- Establish organizational infrastructure
- Partnerships
- Including local communities, primary and secondary prevention facilities, diagnosis and treatment facilities, government and non-government programs
- Participation in community-based primary and secondary prevention activities
- Increase community participation in smoking cessation and early detection activities

## Preliminary First Year Program Evaluation Findings

- 399 People work on the CNP staffs
- 171 Clinical partnerships created with screening clinics, hospitals
- 641 Community partnerships, local/state government, non-profit organization partnerships
- 898 Educational activities during the first year

## Phase II – Disparities Research and Training

- Address spectrum of research issues necessary   to reduce disparities in the community
- Develop community-based interventions
- Assessing policies on reducing disparities
- Train researchers from minority/underserved populations in disparities research
- Develop pilot projects to reduce cancer disparities, including assessment of health policy

## Phase III – Establish Credibility and Sustainability

- Reduce cancer disparities in the community
- Obtain non-CRCHD funding for continuing Community Network activities
- Inform policymakers of community-based research that reduces cancer disparities

## American Indian/Alaska Natives

| Principal Investigator | Institution(s) | Program Title | Populations Addressed | Possible CCOP link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|   |   |   |   |   |
| Kaur, Judith S. | Mayo Clinic Rochester d/b/a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine | The American Indian/Alaska Native Initiative on Cancer | National Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives | Am Indian
Duluth CCOP MN
Metro MN
Montana CCOP
Merit Care ND
Sioux Valley SD
Marchfield, Wi |
| Buchwald, Dedra | University of Washington | Regional Native American Community Networks Program | Am Ind/Alaska Nat in the Seattle Area | Virgina Mason, WA |
| Coe, Kathryn | Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. (ITCA) | Southwest American Indian Collaborative Network | American Indians in Phoenix-Tucson areas | Western Regional   
  CCOP
Univ New Mexico |
| Beebe, Laura A. | University of Oklahoma Health | University of Oklahoma Community Networks Project (OUCNP)   | Native Americans & African Americans in Oklahoma | Oklahoma CCOP |

## Asians and Pacific Islanders

| Chen, Moon S. Jr. | The Regents of the University of California, Davis | Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research & Training | National Program for Asians | Asians
Bay Area Tumor Inst |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ma, Grace | Temple University of the Commonwealth System | ATECAR - Asian Community Cancer Network | Asian Americans in the Eastern Regions of the US | Geisinger |
| Chong, Clayton | Papa Ola Lokahi | Imi Hale - Native Hawaiian Cancer Network | Native Hawaiians in HI | Native Hawaiians CRC of HI |
| Tanjasiri, Sora Park | California State University, Fullerton Foundation | WINCART: Weaving an Islander Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training | Pacific Islanders communities in Southern California | Other Pacific Islanders |
| Tofaeono, Victor Williams | LBJ Tropical Medical Center | American Samoa Community Cancer Network | Samoans in the U.S. Territory of American Samoa | Samoans |

## Hispanics

| Ramirez, Amelie G. | Univ. of Tx Health Science Center at San Antionio | Redes in Accion: National Latino Cancer Research Network  | National program for Hispanics | Hispanics 
Bay Area Tumor Inst
Mt Sinai, FL
North Shore, NY
Scott & White, TX
Our Lady Mercy NY
San Juan PR
S Texas Pediatrics |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Huerta, Elmer E. | MedStar Research Institute | Latin American Cancer Research Coalition | Latinos in the Washington-Baltimore Tri State region | Howard Univ |
| Espinoza, Paula | Univ. of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Ctr. | The Colorado Front Range Latino Community Network (CFRLCN) | Latino/a Community in Colorado | Co Cancer Res Prog |
| Thompson, Beti | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Hispanic Community Network to Reduce Cancer Disparities  | Hispanics in rural areas | Virgina Mason, WA
 |

## African Americans

| Satcher, David  | Morehouse School of Medicine, | National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer III: Community Networks Program (NBLIC III: CNP) | National Program for African Americans | African Americans
Atlanta regional CCOP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Partridge, Edward E. | Univ. of  Alabama at Birmingham, Comprehensive Cancer Center | Deep South Network for Cancer Control | African American's in Alabama & Mississippi | The Gulf Coast MB-CCOP |
| Henry-Tillman, Ronda S. | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Arkansas Cancer Research Center | Arkansas Cancer Community Network (ARCCN)  | Underserved Black, White & Rural | Breast cancer AR |
| Hebert, James | Univ. of South Carolina Research Foundation  | South Carolina Cancer Disparities Community Network (SCCDCN) | African Americans in South Carolina | Greenville SC
Gibbs SC |

## African Americans (cont)

| Albrecht, Terrance | Wayne State University | CNP for Older, Underserved, African-American Adults | African American Elderly in Detroit | Michgan Cancer Research Consortium |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Godley, Paul A.  | Univ. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill | Carolina Community Network | African American Adults in North Carolina | Southeast Cancer Control Cons CCOP |
| Hargreaves, Margaret K. | Meharry Medical College | Meharry Medical College-Community Health Centers Network | African American in Tennessee | Meharry CCOP |
| Colditz, Graham | Washington University | Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities(PECaD) | Multidisciplinary Community Focused | St. Louis-Cape Girardeau |

## Underserved

| Dignan, Mark B. | University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Appalachia Community Cancer Network (ACCN) | Appalachian regions of Kentucky, WV, OH, PA NY, MD and VA | Appalachia
Columbus CCOP
Geisinger PA |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Baquet, Claudia R. | University of Maryland | The Maryland Regional Community Network Program To Eliminate Cancer Health Disparities (MRCN) | Underserved populations in MD  | MD underserved |
| Meade, Cathy D. | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute | Tampa Bay Community Cancer Network (TB-CCN): A Model for Reducing Cancer Health Disparities | Tri-county community based areas in Tampa Bay, Florida | Florida Pediatric CCOP |
| Koh, Howard | Harvard School of Public Health | (MASS CONECT) Mass. Community Networks to Eliminate Cancer Disparities through Education, Research and Training | Services for urban, low SEP populations  in MA ( Boston and Worcester) | MA underserved |

## For More Information

- 	For additional information, visit the CRCHD Web site at _[http://crchd.nci.nih.gov/](http://crchd.nci.nih.gov/)__ _
- _[http://crchd.cancer.gov/cnp/cnp-project-listing.html](http://crchd.cancer.gov/cnp/cnp-project-listing.html)_
- For questions contact us at: (301) 496-8589
- Kenneth Chu (kc10d@nih.gov) or
- Leslie Cooper (lc58q@nih.gov)