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Discover the innovative CEED program's journey in Louisiana, bridging healthcare disparities through community and interpersonal interventions. Success stories, challenges, and future opportunities are explored, highlighting the program's significant impact on improving screening services and health outcomes.
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Louisiana and REACH U.S. CEED A Community and Interpersonal Level Approach to Eliminating Screening Disparities
The Evolution of CEED in LA • First round • 2 funded legacy projects • TUSPHTM: Interactive DVD Project • LCCP/ACS: COFFEE Program, Policy Support and Hospital In-Reach • Second round • LA CAP funded • COFFEE and In-Reach (supplemented by DVD) and Policy • Third round • Focus on COFFEE program • Leveraging other resources to fund policy and In-Reach
The COFFEE Program • 35 community network partners • 5 unique communities • 30 COFFEE-Mates trained • Educating women on breast & cervical screening • Navigating women to screening services
Successes • Leveraging resources to grow COFFEE • Community Network partner received Avon funding to expand program to Jefferson Parish • LBCHP received additional funding to continue including Latina and Vietnamese communities • ACS received funding for home health parties from LSU School of Medicine MB-CCOP
Successes • “Abreast a Boat of Hope” DVD disseminated • Recipients included: • Disaster Navigation Program Community Advisory Board • Franklin Avenue Baptist Church • Watson Memorial Church • American Cancer Society COFFEE program • McFarland Institute • Orleans & Jefferson Parish Community Neighborhood health centers
Successes • Moving some CAP activities to other funding sources • The In-Reach program was funded by NBCCEDP supplemental funds • Louisiana Comprehensive Cancer Control Program received a CDC policy grant to support policy work • Sustainability • “Abreast a Boat of Hope” DVD was distributed to COFFEE program and In-Reach program to enhance educational outreach activities
Successes • Publications and Presentations • COFFEE program • 2009 oral presentation and 2010 poster presentation at APHA • ACS Imagine Newsletter (Internal) • ACS Volunteer Newsletter (Distributed to Orleans-Area volunteers) • “Abreast a Boat of Hope” DVD • LCRC Cancer Letter (10,000 subscribers) • Tulane Interventionist (Global distribution) • Local New Orleans television presentations • 2010 poster presentation at APHA
Challenges • Data Overload • Data collection • Data entry • Data coordination/HIPPA/partnerships • Evaluation of data • How to get from intervention exposure measurement to screening outcome measurement to long-term health outcome
Challenges • Program Coordination and Integration • “Abreast a Boat of Hope” DVD sustainability for evaluation and outcomes measurements • Cancer navigation and COFFEE - many different versions of navigation along cancer continuum
LA Patient Navigation Network:Maximizing the Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute Model
Opportunities • Patient Navigation Network • Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program Navigation funding • Better coordination/integration of existing programs • Rapides Foundation is partnering to grow CHA program work in Central Louisiana • “Abreast a Boat of Hope” – submitted NIH proposal • Afro-Caribbean global health disparities • Includes evaluation component
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