Determine the status of your state cancer plan
Obtain a copy of your state’s cancer plan
- Download a copy from the above sites
- Obtain a hardcopy from the CCC Contacts below
Contact your state’s Comprehensive Cancer Control Program Director
- State contacts are located on the CDC, NCI and CoC Web sites
- ACS Division staff can also direct you to the appropriate state CCC contacts
Become a member of the state partnership
- Match your area of interest with a workgroup, subcommittee and/or portion of the plan (e.g. breast cancer workgroup, disparities, treatment, survivorship, etc.)
- Assign a representative from your facility to the partnership
Present the state plan to your cancer committee
- Outline the priorities
- Highlight objectives that may have a direct impact on the community
Determine how your facility’s interests fit within the state’s priorities
- Discuss how the facility can support the top cancer priorities in the state
- Can the facility donate resources (staff, time, money, space), host a partnership meeting, host a screening day
- Match goals of the cancer program with those identified in the plan
Identify specific goals and objectives within the plan to implement at your facility or within the community
- Define the resources and inputs needed to implement activities at the local level
- Identify a target audience, site specific issue, or approach (prevention, early detection, treatment, etc.) the facility would like to address
- Discuss a schedule of activities with the cancer committee
Identify a community agency to collaborate with on outreach activities
- Identify community organizations currently working on initiatives of interest to the facility and outlined in the plan
- Identify community organizations that can contribute the resources needed to accomplish the activity chosen by the facility
- Invite the local partner to attend a cancer committee meeting to discuss partnership opportunities
- Outline and discuss the benefits of partnership to the agency and to the facility
Inform the state cancer planning team of your activities and success
- Document all community outreach activities in the Survey Application Record (SAR) and in cancer committee minutes
- Share successes, best practices, and lessons learned with the state team
- Keep the CoC State Chair informed of on-going activities, corrective action needed, and support needed
Attend press releases/town hall meetings
- Serve as an advocate for your state plan
- Serve as a local speaker on clinical cancer issues
- Represent your CoC approved cancer program, facility, and its activities, successes and involvement in state cancer planning
