Understanding the Basics of Community Outreach and Engagement: University of Cincinnati Cancer Center 2022 Community Dialogue Circles
Through Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) activities, the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center can build relationships that create opportunities for mutually beneficial alliances, collaborations and partnerships between clinicians, researchers and communities of all kinds. To help you learn more about the benefits of COE, we held four Community Dialogue Circles during the 2022 summer. Herein are the recordings, slides and handouts as a very basic training for all Cancer Center faculty, staff and partners. By completing the brief survey below, we will customize your training experience. Completion of our three question quizzes following each video will capture your participation.
Our goal is that all members have some understanding of COE by the start of the next fiscal year. Thank you for your willingness to support COE within the UC Cancer Center!
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Are you currently a UCCC member?
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The UCCC’s membership program is open to all University of Cincinnati (UC) faculty with interest in cancer research, prevention, and care.
The UCCC’s membership program will help promote cross disciplinary collaboration with other cancer researchers throughout the entire UC campus, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), and UC Health. This collaboration will help drive our vision for a center that excels in cancer care, research, training, and community impact.
Membership in the UCCC affords clinicians and scientists access to internal pilot funding opportunities, core research facilities privileges at UC and CCHMC, networking and professional development events, and communications and community outreach support.
The application process takes about 5 minutes and requires your current CV. The link to apply is: https://ucwebapps.uc.edu/institutemember/Account/Login
Demographics: We are querying this information so that we may highlight the diversity (or lack thereof) of our membership in our future reports, presentations and publication about our program. THe NCI expects that our faculty be interdisciplinary and from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
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Please select the Dialogue Circles that you have attended. Check all that apply.
Dialogue Circle: Session 1 Ready to learn about the value of Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) to you?
To view the video recording "The Value of COE to Busy Basic Science, Clinical & Population Health Researchers" click below:
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Power Point for Session 1
1 How can we make our research stronger and have the research be beneficial to both the community member and clinical researcher?
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Consider only your our own (expert clinical) perspectives - don't worry that your perspectives may drastically different than your patients' and research participants' perspectives
Ask as many questions as possible on your surveys, interviews, etc.- don't worry about the burden your research participants experience supporting your study
Educate your study participants and invite them to inform your study by asking for their priorities, perspectives and guidance.
The benefits to research participants is both getting to participate and/or getting a benefit from what is learned from the research over time.
2 Which of the following does NOT apply.
COE is a great method to:
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Improve the impact of our research by getting participants perspectives
Reduce the time having to spend out in the community
Improve diversity and be more inclusive
Access to communities, for mutual benefit
3 Research Ready is an outreach program offered by Research Advocates (CRAs) to family, friends and community members to help them become "research-ready".
Being "research-ready" means understanding the three P's:
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Purpose, Protection, Participation
Purpose, Participation, Product
Purpose, Passion, Participation
Popularity, Product, Post-Survey
From patients' and community members' perspectives, why do we need greater diversity in cancer clinical trials?
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To make our grant sponsors happy - its a requirement to work towards diversifying our trial enrollment
To ensure equitable access to the innovation and high quality care associated with participation
To make sure our research is generalizable across populations
Your Answer is NOT completely incorrect,
but is not really a reason your patients or study participants
would provide as a good reason to increase diversity.
Dialogue Circle: Session 2 Ready to expand your COE skills?
To view the video recording "Dialogue Circle: Critical COE Skills for the Newly Engaged" click below:
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Power Point for Session 2
1 The way we think, might:
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Influence if and how we approach community partners and with who we partner
Determine our ability to see and appreciate differences
Being open to learning how best to successfully partner
Impact our ability to be patient and be able to take the time to learn the skills necessary to create a mutually beneficial relationships
All of the above
2 According to the Dialogue circle, one good way to set clear expectations around a project or study between academic and community partners alike is to create together a:
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Business Plan
Partnership Agreement
Program Abstract
Memorandum of Mutuality
3 The APPLE technique is a guide to asking questions that facilitate discussion with community partners, and giving people the opportunity to really talk, respond and contribute. Which of the following is NOT part of the APPLE acronym for effective questioning skills?
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Asking the question (open-ended and probing are best)
Pass on questions that are not getting answered (don't pick a volunteer to answer)
Pausing to allow participants to think of an answer
Listening to the answer provided
Elaborate more on the answers given, paraphrase, summarize and request clarification
Dialogue Circle: Session 3 Ready to strengthen your communication and connection with the community?
To view the video recording "To view the video recording "Best Practices for Giving Research Talks to Spur Community Outreach Discussions" click below:"
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Power Point for Session 3
1 For a successful community presentation and discussion:
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Make sure attendees are present the whole time
Focus on big ideas, tell a story, and listen with intent
Prepare as though you are attending a scientific conference
Don't plan around what will most interest attendees
All of the above
2 When sharing your research or clinical experience, whyy might focusing on only Big Ideas be a good idea?
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3 is the optimal amount to remember, retain, and use
3 focuses the presentation on the important items and doesn't overwhelm participants
3 allows for simple discussion and specified interaction with you (researcher, scientist, or care provider)
3 allows you to focuses on a problem, action, and resolution without extraneous information
All of the above
3 Which is a component to having strong discussions?
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Include prompts to inspire meaningful discussion
Check for understanding by pausing and asking if they have any questions
repeat their question(s) and affirm
Ask others to weigh in and provide their opinions
Ask for support if support is needed
All of the above
Dialogue Circle: Session 4 Ready to learn what can be co-designed with the community?
To view the video recording "To view the video recording "Dialogue Circle: Collaborative Design for Mutual Researcher- Community Benefit" click below:"
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Power Point for Session 4
1 A common way the community can inform research is by having them participate in:
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Feedback surveys
Focus groups
Interviews
An iterative co-design process
All of the above
2 The We Engage for Health (WE4H) program currently uses graphic style stories to promote health and encourage timely cancer screenings. Why? Choose the best response.
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Stories are easy to make quickly and inexpensively.
While some adults like stories, most children like them a lot.
Stories force people with lower health literacy levels to read.
Stories are memorable, shareable and help people to make sense of complex information.
3 Considering those community members that are committed to the co-design process, how do they value authorship in co-design?
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They see authorship as a great value and as evidence of their contribution to the work/study.
They are more than often neutral or indifferent to authorship.
Community members are not usually interested in authorship as it doesn't pertain to them.
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