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James Plumb, MD, MPH¹, Vanessa Briggs, MBA, RD, LDN², Michael Rosenthal, MD³, Ronald Meyers, PhD⁴, Rickie O. Brawer, MPH⁵, and Tinesha Peterson, MPH². (1) Family and Community Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, 1015 Walnut Street, Suite 401, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215-955-0535, James.Plumb@jefferson.edu, (2) Health Promotion Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 260 South Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, (3) Department of Family and Community Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, 1015 Walnut Street, Suite 401 Curtis, Philadelphia, PA 19107, (4) Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, 1100 Walnut Street, Suite 400, Philadlephia, PA 19107, (5) Office to Advance Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 1015 Chestnut, Suite 617, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Disparities in stroke and prostate cancer mortality rates, based on race/ethnicity, are evident among men in Pennsylvania. African American (AA) men in Pennsylvania, and particularly in Philadelphia, are more likely to die of a stroke or prostate cancer than are men from different racial/ethnic backgrounds. The Stroke Hypertension and Prostate Education Intervention Team (SHAPE-IT) project is a 2.5-year community-based intervention that fosters partnerships between community-based organizations, community members and health care providers to design and implement strategies that ultimately can reduce disease and death from prostate cancer and stroke among AA men age 35 and older in North & West Philadelphia. Using Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Methodology, SHAPE-IT plans to reach at least 25% (6,750) of the 27,000 AA men residing in the target areas. This project provides substantial opportunities for community planning, establishing partnerships, and enhancing cultural relevance of activities by using a shared responsibility model of community health planning. Project activities included: 1) the development and implementation of a comprehensive Community Action Plan by the Project Advisory Council (PAC), a council of community members and organizational representatives; 2) implementation of identified recruitment and retention strategies for AA men into the SHAPE-IT multi-faceted hypertension, stroke and prostate cancer education sessions; 3) identification of venues for increasing community awareness about stroke and prostate cancer risk factors, symptoms of disease and treatments; 4) integration of social support networks into screening and educational programs. Program evaluation data will be presented.

Learning Objectives:

• 1) Identify the successes and challenges related to developing and implementing a comprehensive Community Action Plan designed to increase knowledge, change attitudes, modify behaviors and support social change process related to hypertension, stroke and prostate cancer prevention in African American men.
• 2) Describe the successes/challenges in identifying, recruiting and retaining African American men into educational programs on hypertension, stroke and prostate cancer.
• 3) Identify successes/challenges of venues utilized to increase community awareness about stroke and prostate cancer risk factors, symptoms of disease and treatments.
• 4) Describe how to integrate social support networks into screening and educational programs.

Keywords: Community-Based Partnership, Community Education

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Not Answered

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