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*Updated Version* Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month Campaign

Through funding and support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the GW Cancer Center has updated its colorectal cancer awareness month campaign! To assist with your planning for Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in March, we are providing the awareness campaign one month in advance. As always, the campaign includes downloadable tips for getting started on social media, and sample messaging for Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, including messaging around COVID-19. Access the campaign today!

The Cancer Survivorship E-Learning Series is an online, self-paced training that offers ten modules that address several areas of survivorship care. Data in this report were collected from learners who completed at least one E-Learning Series module between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021. Access the report for more information about the learners in your state/tribe/territory!

As newsletter readers know, the GW Cancer Center, along with the American Cancer Society, provides technical assistance and training (TAT) to Comprehensive Cancer Control programs and coalitions through a cooperative agreement with the CDC. To determine your TAT needs, the GW Cancer Center, along with the American Cancer Society, conducted a needs assessment to inform TAT planning and implementation. Sarah Kerch, MPH, CCC Technical Assistance Manager, Ruta Brazinskaite, MS, Program Associate, Liza Fues, JD, Technical Assistance Coordinator, and Mandi Pratt-Chapman, PhD, Associate Center Director, Patient-Centered Initiatives and Health Equity for the GW Cancer Center co-authored Technical Assistance and Training Needs of Comprehensive Cancer Control Programs: a Qualitative Analysis, along with former GW staff member Mohammad Khalaf, MPH. Download the paper to learn more!

Additionally, working with a Community Advisory Board, GW Cancer Center staff developed the Advancing Patient-Centered Cancer Survivorship Care Toolkit -- a "workshop in a box," designed to help comprehensive cancer control professionals advance patient-centered survivorship. In this study, toolkit dissemination was evaluated. GW Cancer Center co-authors include Mandi Pratt Chapman, PhD, Associate Center Director, Patient-Centered Initiatives and Health Equity for the GW Cancer Center, Sylvia Shirima, MPH, Health Education Manager, and Ruta Brazinskaite, MS, Program Associate. Download Advancing Patient-Centered Cancer Survivorship Care: Evaluation of a Dissemination Project today!

Applications are now available for the Tribal Researchers’ Cancer Control Fellowship Program! The goal of the program, which will be held June 6-17, is to reduce cancer incidence and mortality and improve cancer survival in tribal communities through the efforts of American Indian and Alaska Native researchers. The program offers training and mentorship to prepare researchers to design and implement cancer-related research projects within AI/AN communities. Contact Ashley Thomas for more information or an application.

The Prevent Cancer Foundation's Laurel Awards annually recognize innovators and leaders in the fight against cancer. Awardees will be honored at the 2022 Prevent Cancer Dialogue on June 9. Nominations will close on March 2, so submit your nomination soon!

The Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership Sustaining Coalitions work group hosts quarterly check-ins by Zoom for CCC coalitions and programs related to sustaining coalitions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Join the CCCNP on February 15 from 4:00-4:30 EST for the next installment, which will feature a discussion on how CCC coalitions are building emergency preparedness into their coalitions. Stay tuned for call-in information! Guest presentations and notes from previous check-ins are available here.

As part of its effort to assist CCC coalitions and programs in addressing health inequities in cancer, the CCCNP will hold its next quarterly Zoom session on March 1. The session will focus on CCCNP efforts over the past 2 years to address health equity, including identifying and utilizing an evidence-based framework to guide its efforts. Access this link to join the call. Slides and a recording of the previous session, which featured Angela Moore, MPH, and Trina Pyron, MA, CDC National Comprehensive Cancer Control Branch, are available on the CCCNP website.

Is it time for a PSE change refresher? This training from the GW Cancer Center explores PSE change, from its evidence base to a full-length case study. It provides background information on the PSE change process, stepwise worksheets, a PSE action plan template, real world examples, an extensive resource list, and theoretical and evaluation approaches to help grow the PSE change evidence base. Access the training at Action for Policy, Systems and Environmental (PSE) Change: A Training.