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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

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•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

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•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

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•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