Top Goals of the Tobacco & Cancer Disparity Networks for Coming Year

Top Goals for Next Year

National Council for Behavioral Health / mental health

• Continue to hold state strategy sessions to see what’s been done and where there are opportunities to move the needle.
• Examine their current (extensive) workforce development programs to see how tobacco & cancer information can be bolstered
• Looking to leverage more opportunities to collaborate and coordinate with the sister networks as a body

Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan / American Indian

• Looking to promote lung cancer screening, awareness and availability. (there’s low awareness on this now)
• Creating information repositories on their website, of toolkits, links to outside information, etc.
• Promoting tobacco screening for youth in tribal clinics through onsite trainings
• Promoting community and clinical linkages among the tribal health clinics

RAISE / Asian American/Pacific Islander

• Disseminating cancer and tobacco equity information to the different partners
• Providing technical assistance to the different partners
• Coming big 20th anniversary conference in SF

Patient Advocacy Foundation / low socioeconomic status

• Build the network!
• Launch a website
• Leaning into media and social media to get information out to the people who really need to understand resources

CADCA / geographic health equity

• Engage the network partners in meaningful ways, especially the sister disparity networks
• Amplify the message by building a following for the network on social media
• Building breadth & depth, especially starting conversations about how we define ourselves as a community. Maybe an Instagram campaign of selfies?
• Building capacity & coalition, looking at readiness of different states to change policies.
• Being a repository for information

LGBT Network (<– guess who)

• Enduring the fallout after we give a bunch of states F’s on their LGBT inclusion report cards/rebuilding relationships with some states/providing more technical assistance to states to help them up their game
• Launching, with the National LGBT Cancer Network, the first ever National LGBT Cancer Action Plan
• Launching, with the National LGBT Cancer Network, the first LGBT Cancer Best Practices compilation
• Creating model wellness policies for LGBT community centers, working with centers to see who can adopt these policies

NAATPN / African American/African

• Intercultural Cancer Council created a guide about how to work with specific populations related to health disparities, looking to expand and finish it in year 2.
• Looking for other cities that might adopt the Chicago model to ban flavored cigarette sales near schools
• Work with the SouthEast Intercultural Cancer Council region to drill down into a system or policy change which can be implemented to affect cancer disparities.
• The faith based summit in year one has really taken off, looking to expand it in year two.

National Alliance for Hispanic Health

• Continuing to build the infrastructure of the network
• Look at secondhand smoke and see how it affects different populations, especially in the southeast
• Promote skin/cervical/colorectal cancer awareness and screening to coincide with and support CDC’s emphasis on same