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By Joseph D. Bryant
UAB
June was officially National Cancer Survivors Month, but for Darlene Robinson, every day is a day for celebration and encouragement. For years, Robinson has found creative ways to engage her community and keep her support group of cancer survivors connected and inspired.
Robinson works with the Office of Community Outreach & Engagement at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB as a community outreach coordinator for Greene and Hale counties. Not even the pandemic was enough to stop Robinson’s efforts to unite cancer survivors in this region of the state’s Black Belt.
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By Joseph D. Bryant April 25, 2021
Jean Hernandez, second from left, is making a difference in Alabama communities as both director of the Alabama Latino AIDS Coalition and as a member of the UAB O Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center s Community Advisory Board. (contributed)
Throughout its 25 years, the Office of Community Outreach & Engagement at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB has relied on community partners to form strategies that reach previously overlooked groups. Two of the newest members of the Community Advisory Board are serving as guides to help address health disparities among Alabama’s Latino populations.
Board members Vanessa Vargas and Jean Hernandez are partners in expanding outreach efforts to reach a Spanish-speaking audience through community collaboration and culturally relevant, inclusive messaging.
The complete article can be found at AlabamaNewsCenter.com.
By Joseph D. Bryant
UAB
In two decades, the Office of Community Outreach & Engagement at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB has trained more than 2,000 Community Heath Advisors. Countless lives have been affected by the work of these CHAs, who provide a link to essential health education and awareness in communities most in need of access.
As the Office of Community Outreach & Engagement celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, program officials are looking back at the founding, growth and evolution of its seminal asset, the Community Health Advisor Program.
The complete article can be found at AlabamaNewsCenter.com.
By Joseph D. Bryant
UAB
It has been 25 years since leaders at UAB recognized the need to address widening health disparities in cancer screening and treatment, and then took decisive action to address it.
The result was the creation of what is now the Office of Community Outreach & Engagement at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center. During its silver anniversary this year, the office traces its roots, development and impact on the communities it was designed to serve. This month, the office’s monthly newsletter, Community Connections, talked with a few of the pioneers.