We are working with local communities and clinics to increase access to high-quality cancer prevention, detection and treatment services. The Community Screening Navigation team is an integral function of the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement that has long been part of its structure. The team now supports the office’s Mobile Cancer Screening Connector, providing essential services underpinning its clinical, outreach and educational missions.
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
Breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate cancer screening
Decentralized clinical trials
Identifying and reducing barriers to cancer screening
Community partners
Our 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.
Our Team
Jamie Hensley MHCM, CCRP
Mel Hernandez
