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APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

Crystal L. Meyer, MPH¹, Bryan Weiner, PhD², Anissa Vines, PhD, MS¹, and Paul Godley, MD, PhD³. (1) UNC Program on Ethnicity, Culture and Health Outcomes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7400, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, (2) Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7411, 1102-C McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, (919) 966-7375, bryan_weiner@unc.edu, (3) Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 7305, 3009 Old Clinic Bldg., Chapel Hill, NC 27599

The Carolina Community Network to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CCN) is a regional cancer network, aimed at reducing breast, prostate and colorectal cancer disparities among adult African Americans in North Carolina. Leveraging longstanding university-community relationships and the community-based participatory research expertise at the University of North Carolina, the CCN strives to enhance and extend cancer education and research, research training, and cancer health policy in both secular and faith-based communities. The long-term goals of the CCN are to: (1) improve utilization of beneficial cancer interventions; (2) increase the number of minorities in clinical trials and other forms of research; (3) strengthen the community's knowledge of cancer disparities and treatment; and (4) impact cancer prevention and control policies. The efficiency and synergy of the CCN will be evaluated using the Competing Values Framework, a comprehensive view of organizational effectiveness that integrates four prevailing models of management. The Competing Values Framework recognizes that organizations like the Community Networks Program (CNP) want to achieve goals and demonstrate productivity, but they must also exhibit efficient well-run operations, accountability to internal and external stakeholders, participation and openness, partner commitment and morale, innovation and adaptation, and growth resource acquisition. The Competing Values Framework offers a coherent conceptual structure that relates these seemingly disparate dimensions of effectiveness. Our use of the Competing Values Framework as an evaluation tool will complement, not replace, the framework and methodological approaches developed by the CNP national evaluators.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to

• Identify the goals and objectives of the Carolina Community Network to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities; and
• Describe the Competing Values Framework and how it can be applied to community-based participatory research evaluation

Keywords: Evaluation, Community-Based Partnership

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No