In July 2025, GW successfully concluded its community of practice (CoP) teatime, focused on rural cancer control. There were 89 registered participants. Over six sessions, 111 people participated and received content from 14 subject matter experts. Following are the resources that were provided to participants. They are being posted here to provide you with rural cancer control assistance.
Generally Applicable GW Cancer Center Resources
- Cancer Awareness Toolkits
- Cancer Survivorship Series
- National Cancer Awareness Months List
- Online Academy
- Patient Navigation and Survivorship Newsletter
- Patient Navigation Training and Patient Navigator Training Resources
- Psychosocial Training Module
- TAP Newsletter
- TAP Website
Session 1: Data and Definitions
ACS National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable
CDC
National Network
Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
HRSA
Huntsman Cancer Institute
- Community Health Assessment Survey (the first cancer control-focused data and knowledge base on frontier populations)
NCI
Rural Cancer Institute
Research Papers
- Rural Cancer Disparities in the United States: A Multilevel Framework to Improve Access to Care and Patient Outcomes
- Closing the Rural Cancer Care Gap: Three Institutional Approaches
Session 2: Education and Awareness of Cancer in Rural Communities
ASTHO
Blood Cancer United
Breast Cancer Resource Center
Center for Black Health & Equity
National Council on CHW Core Consensus Standards
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- “It’s Our Way Down South”: HPV Vaccination Roundtable of the Southeast’s current campaign (assets are co-brandable and customized by state). Preview campaign materials here. Request access to materials here.
- Preventing HPV Cancers in Rural Communities
- Quarterly meetings with updates on preventing HPV in rural communities: Register Program – Webex
Vaccinate Your Family University
- Vaccination Community Navigator (VCN): Vaccinate Your Family University houses an online, bilingual (English-Spanish) training series for their Vaccination Community Navigator (VCN) program for Promotores/Community Health Workers (P/CHWs)
Session 3: Geographic Considerations
Community Engagement
- Community Engagement Toolkit – Planning and Facilitating Meaningful Conversations: https://www.nadtc.org/community-engagement-toolkit/
Lodging
- ACS Hope Lodge: https://www.cancer.org/support-programs-and-services/patient-lodging/hope-lodge.html
- ACS Keys of Hope Program: https://www.cancer.org/support-programs-and-services/patient-lodging.html
- Healthcare Hospitality Network: https://www.hhnetwork.org/
- Joe’s House: https://www.joeshouse.org/
- Check local hospital websites for lodging partners
Resource Coordination Software
Resource Search Sites
- FindHelp (free/reduced cost food, housing, financial assistance, healthcare, etc.)
- Patient Advocate Foundation
- American Cancer Society
Telehealth
- My STORI app (developed for brain cancer patients)
- OASIS app (developed for cancer patients)
- o University of Iowa testing app used to help cancer patients
- o U of IA studies mobile app
- Medicare: https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/telehealth
- Mobile Healthcare Association: https://mobilehca.org/
- Telehealth.HHS.gov
Transportation
- ACS Road to Recovery: https://www.cancer.org/support-programs-and-services/road-to-recovery.html
- ACS Transportation grant press release: https://pressroom.cancer.org/releases?item=1318
- American Hospital Association: Transportation and the Role of Hospitals
- Assisting People Find Transportation: https://www.nationalrtap.org/Toolkits/Find-Anything-Toolkit/Assisting-People-With-Finding-Transportation
- Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility TA Center
- o Transportation Insecurity as Part of a Medical Diagnosis
- o Health and Transportation Resource Center
- Find your State Transit Associations: https://www.nationalrtap.org/Toolkits/Find-Anything-Toolkit/Appendices/State-Transit-Associations
- Health Outreach Partners: Transportation & Health: Addressing the Health Inequities in Transportation
- Iowa Transportation Program: https://www.ridehirta.com/doyouhavetransportation
- National Aging and Disability Transportation Center
- The Missing Link in Family Caregiving: https://www.nadtc.org/resources-publications/resource/transportation-the-missing-link-in-family-caregiver-support/
- Check local hospital/clinic websites for transportation partners
Colorado Cancer Plan and Telehealth Program
- 2021-2025 Colorado Cancer Plan: https://www.coloradocancercoalition.org/colorado-cancer-plan-data/
- University of Colorado Cancer Center Sleeplessness Telehealth Program: https://news.cuanschutz.edu/cancer-center/brewer-baurle-insomnia-telehealth
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- “It’s Our Way Down South”: HPV Vaccination Roundtable of the Southeast’s current campaign (assets are co-brandable and customized by state). Preview campaign materials here. Request access to materials here.
- Preventing HPV Cancers in Rural Communities
- Quarterly meetings with updates on preventing HPV in rural communities: Register Program – Webex
Session 4: Workforce
CDC
Colorado Patient Navigator Training Collaborative
GW Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity
HRSA
New Mexico
Nevada Cancer Coalition
NIH
Project ECHO
Research Paper
Rhode Island’s Project ECHO
Session 5: Policy
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Frameworks Institute (messaging)
HRSA
RWJF
West Virginia
Session 6: Psychosocial Support Services in Rural Areas
Cancer Support Community
Center to Advance Palliative Care/Get Palliative Care
Colorado
Dialogue4Health
Iowa Cancer Consortium Blog Post
Iowa State University
Mt. Sinai Center for Behavioral Oncology
Nevada Cancer Coalition
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital HPV Cancer Prevention Program
- Quarterly meetings on preventing HPV in rural communities: Register
University of New Mexico
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