We are working with local communities and clinics to increase access to high-quality cancer prevention, detection and treatment services.
INTERVENING TO IMPROVE CARE
Understanding needs. Improving health.
Our Community Screening Navigation Program was launched to increase access to evidence-based cancer screenings, with an initial focus on cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccine uptake in vulnerable populations. Beyond that, we ensure a connection to needed care for all individuals. The care spans the continuum from screening through treatment and uses tailored communications, community outreach and engagement, and clinical navigation services. By intervening at partnering health facilities that provide care in underserved communities, we can tailor high-quality care to each person based on their social and health care needs and link them to needed care and follow-up. These efforts are made possible through collaboration between community leaders, local health care facilities, providers and researchers.
Our Services
Cancer prevention and risk reduction education and tools
Cervical and colorectal cancer screening
Health system navigation
Women’s health and reproductive care
Translation
Transportation
Community partners
The UF Health Cancer Center's Community Outreach and Engagement office partners with a range of academic, clinical, community and UF organizations.
Our Approach
improve health
Increasing cancer screening
One of our main goals is to increase the uptake of evidence-based cancer prevention screenings, with a special focus on at-risk populations, cervical and oral cancer and barriers to care.
counsel
Providing counseling and engagement
Providers and patients engage in shared decision making on screening eligibility and follow-up. They actively work alongside patients, linking them to appropriate care, providing tools for patients to lower their risk, establishing self-management goals and creating a coordinated care plan.
link to care
Connecting patients to treatment
Participating providers: refer patients for treatment, provide service, share their findings with the study group and develop tailored care plans.
support
Linking patients to community resources and support
We connect patients with needed community support. Participating providers will assess non-medical risks and barriers to care and provide patients with available community resources to help overcome them.
Steering Committee
Our Steering Committee, comprising a committed group of local community members, was formed to partner with the COE office, our community collaborators and local primary care clinics. The overarching aim of the partnership is to increase access to high-quality, evidence-based and locally tailored health information related to cancer risks, detection, treatment and survivorship in our 23-county catchment area.
The committee gathered in the spirit of building equitable partnerships. Members incorporated the perspective of the community in developing goals and strategies to enhance how we reach the members of the communities we serve.
