# Strengthening Community Engagement in Colorectal Cancer Screening and Clinical Trial Enrollment Through a Community Health Educator

> **NIH NIH P30** · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $115,000

## Abstract

Abstract:
In this extension of support application, the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, an NCI-designated
Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University proposes to continue integration with current
outreach efforts of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) Enterprise through the catalyst of
the NCI's National Outreach Network (NON) and the Community Health Educator (CHE). These
efforts have translated to virtual education and engagement. The CHE will work with existing
SKCC outreach efforts to coordinate colorectal cancer (CRC) screening education that leads to
early detection actions and cancer clinical trial (CCT) education in underserved communities
that identify as of African descent, Latinx, or Chinese immigrant. The SKCC catchment area, the
tri-State region of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware is characterized by dense urban
populations, rural farmlands, and some of the greatest cancer health inequities in the country.
SKCC's concerted commitment to Reduce the Longevity Gap systematically seeks to increase
access to cancer care and to CCTs. Clinical trials that are currently being promoted are the
NCI's Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), ECOG-ACRIN EAZ171
Studying Neuropathy in Black Women, and Circulating Tumor Cells in Patients with Breast
Cancer (RO-1). We hypothesize that our culturally informed and community engaged
educational interventions on CRC and on CCT will improve CRC screening and CCT knowledge
and interest, respectively. We propose three Specific Aims: 1. Integrate National Outreach
Network (NON) CHE within research and virtual outreach efforts throughout our cancer center,
our catchment areas, the communities served, and our region. 2. Plan, conduct, and assess
CHE-facilitated virtual community education and outreach, aligned with NCI and cancer center
research and outreach priorities, within underserved communities, locally and regionally to
enhance CRC screening and CCT enrollment. 3. Strengthen partnerships and collaborations
with key NCI-sponsored academic, research, community, and regional partners to enhance
NCI's ability to reach underserved communities more effectively and virtually with tailored
cancer information and to foster virtual community engagement in research to enhance CRC
screening and CCT enrollment. Strategies to track, monitor and evaluate the efficacy/impact of
our proposed work will utilize our culturally informed and community-engaged intervention to
address CRC screening and CCT enrollment. Our efforts now include remote consenting, digital
assessments of knowledge and beliefs about CRC screening and CCT enrollment, virtual health
education platforms, social media and electronic record recruitment, and video tools.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10372730
- **Project number:** 3P30CA056036-22S1
- **Recipient organization:** THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** KAREN E KNUDSEN
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $115,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1995-06-22 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10372730

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10372730, Strengthening Community Engagement in Colorectal Cancer Screening and Clinical Trial Enrollment Through a Community Health Educator (3P30CA056036-22S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10372730. Licensed CC0.

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