# Outreach Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES · 2020 · $280,692

## Abstract

Outreach Core
Core Leaders: Rebecca Palacios, Raquel Garzon NMSU and Beti Thompson, Rachel Ceballos Fred Hutch
[The content of this Pilot Proposal is identical in the NMSU and Fred Hutch proposals]
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
This U54 Partnership proposes a comprehensive Outreach Core that addresses a number of the overall U54
Partnership Aims. The border region of New Mexico (NM), the northwestern region of NM known as Indian
Country, and the Yakima Valley of Washington State (WA) are three areas where disparities are severe among
Hispanic and American Indian (AI) people. The overall goal of the Outreach Core is to reduce the cancer
health disparities found in the three regions of NM and WA. We will do this by addressing the following specific
aims:
 1. To continue our existing community-academic partnerships through the Small Grants Program (SGP) that
 promotes health behaviors to reduce cancer health disparities. We will continue to train community
 organizations in grant-writing and will fund small-grant proposals with community organizations to
 enhance outreach activities.
 2. To conduct health education through the NMSU Cooperative Extension Service (CES). Using NMSU as
 a workplace, the CES will initially provide cancer education to NMSU employees.
 3. To provide community education to the regions using Community Health Educators (CHEs) to deliver
 evidence-based programs as recommended by the region CABs. The evidence-based programs will be
 drawn from The Community Guide for Preventive Services. Immediate priorities for the first intervention
 year are HPV education and vaccination and cervical cancer screening.
 4. To involve future health disparities practitioners in community education programs in the regions served
 by the Outreach Core. Students from the University of Washington/Fred Hutch Consortium will
 participate in U54 Partnership programs in the three targeted areas.
The four primary aims express the focus of the Outreach Core. A cross-cutting goal of the core will be to
disseminate cancer prevention and control interventions in our local and regional communities. We will do this
in four ways. First, we will continue our Small Grants Program as this places us within our communities and
gives community based organizations resources to reach the underserved. A new program will use the
cooperative extension service, which has a presence throughout the state, to incorporate e-Learning tools into
worksites. The community education program is now wedded more tightly to community needs assessments
through CABs. Finally, we have reinstituted the Health Disparities Field Experience to train the next generation
of scholars into the complexity of working in underserved communities. These activities will assure the
attainment of the four specific aims and add a comprehensive Outreach Core to our U54 Partnership.!

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10006802
- **Project number:** 5U54CA132383-13
- **Recipient organization:** NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Rebecca Lorena Palacios
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $280,692
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2007-09-30 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10006802

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10006802, Outreach Core (5U54CA132383-13). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10006802. Licensed CC0.

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