# Outreach Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · 2021 · $203,330

## 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:** 10240631
- **Project number:** 5U54CA132381-14
- **Recipient organization:** FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Rachel M. Ceballos
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $203,330
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2007-09-30 → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10240631

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10240631, Outreach Core (5U54CA132381-14). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10240631. Licensed CC0.

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