Community Cancer Leadership Collaborative was formed to address the needs of the cancer community, adhering to the MCA 2025 plan. We are a collective of non-profit, health-focused organizations who feel we can address many of the MCA 2025 plan objectives by working together as a collective with one stronger voice.
We wanted to share with you where we see CCLC connecting to the variable objectives and strategies, in the hopes of garnering MCA’s support. This will further help CCLC make meaningful connections, help support this plan, in turn building our individual and collective capacities in the community, ultimately have an effect on improving the health, the quality of life, for those immersed in the cancer community.
The following includes where we see direct correlations to the plan, along with a list of accomplishment from 2018 and also since CCLC’s inception.
CCLC Strengths and Connections to MCA Cancer Plan 2025
Objective 5
- Connect cancer patients….services they need..non-clinical..
Strategies—
- 5.2 Convene providers to promote best practices…
- 5.4 Build community capacity to address non-clinical support needs…
CCLC—The patient is overwhelmed with volumes of resources; by acting as one collective, we hope to reduce this often daunting burgeon, as well as build awareness of CCLC in the cancer community.
Objective 6
- Expand the cancer workforce to include more community health workers….
Strategies
- 6.1 Increase availability of/access to certificate programs
- 6.2 Work to integrate a high quality cancer curriculum
CCLC—Many of the CCLC organizations have staff and/or volunteers who have joined or been brought in to the respective organizations as practitioners. The skillsets of these practitioners span from direct services to program and curriculum development. The ongoing intent is to build capacity of respective provider bases, once other community-based practitioners are aware of the quality of CCLC’s focus and outcomes.
Objective 7
- 7.3 Increase use of survivorship care plans
Strategies—
CCLC—This objective, occurs organically within CCLC, through the building and exchange of cross-organizational referrals; many of the CCLC organizations have missions that include specific programs and care for survivors, as well as their families and caregivers. Each of the CCLC members have ongoing , internal development plans focused on developing and implementing the most up-to-date, relevant and impactful survivorship programs and curriculums.
Objective 8
- Reduce financial burden…on cancer patients
Objective 9
- Increase access to cancer rehab/wellness services.
CCLC—Covering both objectives, many of the CCLC organization’s services at offered at no charge, or modest stipends, to reduce the burden of medical hardships for those who are suffering, offering accessibility to all. CCLC organizations’ programs and services are designed to enhance quality of life through implementation of direct services or via the offering of cancer-related health & wellness resource offerings.
Objective 18
- Increase utilization of Palliative Care services
CCLC—each of the CCLC organizations offer services, programs that ultimately favorably address quality of life; CCLC believes this is a direct correlation to each of the stated strategies under this objective.
2018 Accomplishments
- Fairview/Healtheast has been contacted by CCLC to conduct discussions around how CCLC might establish a St.Paul-based location and offering of requested services to their cancer community. Currently, a meeting has been scheduled with Fairview/Healtheast’s Community Engagement division.
- Cross-organizationally, many CCLC organizations have met with other CCLC member participants and communities to share their resources, in turn offer more extensive cancer survivorship resources. Unexpected outcome can come of such connections; Pathways presented to Jacks’ Caregivers and one of the attendees was a social worker from the St Paul/United Hospital based Virginia Piper Cancer Institute. After several meetings, Pathways is now sending providers to VPCI/St Paul to offer programming.
- The Angel Foundation will be collaborating with Pathways to offer programming to Pathways participants.
- Pathways collaborated with Brighter Days to offer it’s Renewing Life™ program to Brighter Days Widows Group.
