epico Education to Promote Improved Cancer Outcomes EPICO: Educaon to Promote Improved Cancer Outcomes was a tailored training program on prevenon, treatment and healthy survivorship for colorectal, breast and cervical cancers among at-risk residents living in South Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border. The focal strategy was to train and ulize Community Health Workers (CHWs)/promotoras to deliver tailored educaon to improve access to comprehensive cancer services for Hispanic residents. As part of the project, six promotoras completed a Texas Department of State Health Services cerfied Community Health Worker Instructor course and assisted in developing and delivering eleven different bilingual cancer training modules providing cerfied CHW Connuing Educaon Units (CEUs). The EPICO project delivered more than 700 units of CHW training and 5000 CEUs of resident training across Texas. Other project acvies included: packaging curriculum and delivering trainings to promotoras in six urban centers in Texas; analyzing evaluaon data; and disseminang results. Project SUSTAINABILITY Project Goals • Equip CHWs to educate residents on prevention, treatment, and survivorship issues related to colorectal, breast, and cervical cancers. • Enable CHWs to use tailoring strategies to improve their outreach efforts. • Increase residents’ prevention, treatment, and healthy survivorship behaviors. • CHWs provided feedback during all phases of the project, leading to changes in curriculum content, training methodology, and program delivery. • CHWs completed exit interviews and focus group at completion of project, sharing lessons learned about meeting community needs, education vs. service delivery, and a request increased emphasis on advocacy training and capacity building for participants. For more information about this project, please contact Paula Saldaña (956) 459-1031, Blanca Macareno (979) 436-9360 or email us at CHW-Training.tamhsc.edu. NCHWTC.tamhsc.edu | CHWAction.tamhsc.edu
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epicoEducation to Promote Improved Cancer Outcomes
EPICO: Education to Promote Improved Cancer Outcomes was a tailored training program on prevention, treatment and healthy survivorship for colorectal, breast and cervical cancers among at-risk residents living in South Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border. The focal strategy was to train and utilize Community Health Workers (CHWs)/promotoras to deliver tailored education to improve access to comprehensive cancer services for Hispanic residents. As part of the project, six promotoras completed a Texas Department of State Health Services certified Community Health Worker Instructor course and assisted in developing and delivering eleven different bilingual cancer training modules providing certified CHW Continuing Education Units (CEUs). The EPICO project delivered more than 700 units of CHW training and 5000 CEUs of resident training across Texas.
Other project activities included: packaging curriculum and delivering trainings to promotoras in six urban centers in Texas; analyzing evaluation data; and disseminating results.
Project SUSTAINABILITY
Project Goals
• Equip CHWs to educate residents on prevention, treatment, and survivorship issues related to colorectal, breast, and cervical cancers.
• Enable CHWs to use tailoring strategies to improve their outreach efforts.
• Increase residents’ prevention, treatment, and healthy survivorship behaviors.
• CHWs provided feedback during all phases of the project, leading to changes in curriculum content, training methodology, and program delivery.
• CHWs completed exit interviews and focus group at completion of project, sharing lessons learned about meeting community needs, education vs. service delivery, and a request increased emphasis on advocacy training and capacity building for participants.
For more information about this project, please contact Paula Saldaña (956) 459-1031, Blanca Macareno (979) 436-9360 or email us at CHW-Training.tamhsc.edu.
NCHWTC.tamhsc.edu | CHWAction.tamhsc.edu
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