Annual Report to Stakeholders 2011-2012 - Siteman Cancer Center ...

Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD)
Building on the Capacity of Community Partners for Cancer Education
Faith-Based Outreach
In 2011, we formalized our outreach program working with faith-based organizations
to promote cancer health and wellness. This effort builds upon Faith Communities
Joined for Health (FCJH), a consortium which began in 2008 with community partners
and faculty at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. Our goal is to help
churches and other faith-based organizations incorporate cancer prevention into
health ministries and to encourage use of evidence-based programming such as
Body & Soul, a faith-based health curriculum. PECaD's community health educator
works collaboratively with the FCJH consortium and faith-based groups to provide
technical assistance, ongoing monitoring of cancer prevention programs, plan church
workshops, and implement Body & Soul trainings.
With FCJH, we have hosted workshops for churches focused on cancer health and
wellness. The purpose of the workshops is to equip churches that have or are
building health ministries with state-of-the-art cancer prevention information for their
programs. We also focus on linking community partners to information about local
cancer prevention resources and research. The first workshop in November 2011
took place at the Regional Arts Commission in St. Louis. In addition to engaging
churches in self-directed cancer programming and activities, we held a Grant Writing
101 session. This session provided attendees with little or no grant experience a
better understanding of the grant writing process. Following this session, four
churches/faith-based groups applied for PECaD partnership grants of $250 per year
to support cancer prevention and control activities. Another church workshop was
held in April 2012, which focused on cancer basics, connection to NCI messaging
and materials, and awareness of community resources.
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