What is it?

1. The CEO Cancer Gold Standard™Jill Maughan, MEdProgram CoordinatorTexas Comprehensive Cancer Control ProgramChronic Disease BranchHealth Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Section http://www.cancergoldstandard.org/

2. What is it? • A work site wellness framework • A program focusing on cancer prevention & control • A comprehensive approach to cancer control

3. Why does it matter?

4. Goals of Gold Standard • Risk Reduction • Early Detection • Quality Care

5. Five Pillars • Pillar #1: Prevention • Tobacco-Free Workplace • Nutrition • Physical Activity • Healthy Weight • Vaccines • Pillar #2: Screening • Pillar #3: Cancer Clinical Trials • Pillar #4: Quality Treatment and Survivorship • Pillar #5: Health Education and Health Promotion

6. Accredited Organizations • Maintain a cultural approach to cancer prevention & control • Offer many health protective benefits to their employees

7. How to Become Accredited • Online application • Tobacco-Free Workplace Policy • Preparer’s Certification

8. Are You Ready??

9. Prevention Tobacco-Free Workplace • Is your agency completely tobacco-free (not just smoke-free) indoors and outdoors? • Does your policy prohibit all forms of tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and any others), including smokeless tobacco (chew, snuff, twist), and any others? • Does your policy prohibit e-cigarettes and all other forms of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)? • Do you have designated areas for the use of tobacco? • Do you cover, at either no cost or at a reasonable cost-sharing level, evidence-based tobacco-cessation treatments including prescription (Rx), non-prescription over-the-counter (OTC) products and counseling for employees and their covered dependents? • Do you sponsor tobacco-cessation programming, in your workplace, such as a quit line, seminars or onsite support groups?

10. Prevention Nutrition, Physical Activity and Healthy Weight • Do you value, support and promote healthy food choices, physical activity, and achieving and maintaining a healthy weight? • Do you have specific programming, services, and opportunities in place to support and enable your employees follow a healthy diet, be physically active, and maintain a healthy weight – and avoid or reduce obesity? Vaccines • Do you cover FDA-approved and CDC-recommended vaccines (currently, Gardasil and Cervarix) against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) for the prevention of cervical cancer?

11. Screening • Do you communicate the importance of screening for certain cancers to your employees? • Do your health benefit plans cover, at either no cost or at a reasonable cost-sharing level, screening services for breast, colorectal and cervical cancer?

12. Clinical Trials • Do all of your health benefits plans provide coverage for cancer clinical trials that are approved by an official Institutional Review Board (IRB)? • Is cancer clinical trial participation limited to individuals considered to be terminally ill?

13. Quality Treatment & Survivorship • Do your health benefits plans provide coverage for cancer treatment at Commission on Cancer-accredited facilities and/or National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers? • Does your workplace culture recognizes the needs of employees who are cancer survivors themselves or who are family members/caregivers of cancer survivors?

14. Health Education & Health Promotion • Do you educate and inform your employees about all aspects of cancer prevention, screening, clinical trials, quality care, and survivorship in order to enable and encourage appropriate behavior? • Do you promote employee engagement and participation in healthy workplace initiatives?