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Session Title: Approaches to Assuring Evaluation Use: Valuing Stakeholders, Context, and Program Priorities in Cancer Control
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Panel Session 581 to be held in Lido C on Friday, Nov 4, 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
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Sponsored by the Health Evaluation TIG
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| Angela Moore, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cyq6@cdc.gov
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| Discussant(s):
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| Kimberly Leeks, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, kfj1@cdc.gov
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| Abstract:
The National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (NCCCP) provides support for states, tribes, and Pacific Island Jurisdictions to sustain partnerships and implement cancer control plans including goals, objectives, and strategies that span the entire cancer control continuum from prevention to survivorship. In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released six new priority areas for the NCCCP. The priorities focus on high-impact, common, and cross-cutting elements among programs, emphasize measureable outcomes, and reflect the cancer control continuum, and grew out of long standing focus areas of the national program. In order to ensure that evaluations are used to improve public health practice, an approach was taken that includes the following guiding principles: a commitment to obtain stakeholder input, the recognition that the NCCCP is evolving and adapting to new priority areas, and the commitment of CDC to increase evaluation capacity among grantees to ensure the ability to demonstrate program effectiveness.
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Valuing and Understanding Context: What an Environmental Scan Tells Us About Comprehensive Cancer Control Programs
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| Behnoosh Momin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fqv6@cdc.gov
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| Mary Kay Solera, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zmt7@cdc.gov
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| Stephanie Lung, Case Western University,
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| Cindy Soloe, RTI International, csoloe@rti.org
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CDC will conduct an environmental scan to inform the development of performance measures and an evaluation plan based on the NCCCP priorities. Questions to be answered by the environmental scan are 1) what are CCC programs currently doing with respect to the NCCCP priorities? 2) What is the current state of the science with respect to chronic disease programs performance measurement? A review of end of year reports, action plans, and funding opportunity announcements will be conducted. This document review will allow for the creation of Evaluation Planning Matrices, in order to begin the process of populating the matrix with data. Consultations with experts in performance measures as well as key informant interviews will also be conducted. Results from this environmental scan will provide additional perspective regarding the extent to which programs are equipped to implement the priorities and will inform the development of an evaluation plan and performance measures for the NCCCP program.
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Development of an Evaluation Plan to Evaluate Grantee Attainment of Selected Activities of Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) Priorities
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| Angela Moore, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cyq6@cdc.gov
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| Behnoosh Momin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fqv6@cdc.gov
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| Chris Stockmyer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zll6@cdc.gov
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| Julie Townsend, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, jtownsend@cdc.gov
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| LaShawn Curtis, RTI International, lcurtis@rti.org
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CDC has begun to develop an evaluation plan that will assess the extent to which recipients of the NCCCP are appropriately and effectively implementing CCC activities. This evaluation will also address the extent to which the Comprehensive Cancer Control Branch's (CCCB) technical assistance, resources, and funding have sufficiently bolstered these efforts. The development of the evaluation plan follows methodology of the CDC Framework for Program Evaluation which was designed to improve and account for public health actions by involving procedures that are useful, feasible, ethical, and accurate. The CCCB's utilization of this framework has resulted in an evaluation plan that, once implemented, will assist both programs and CCCB in articulating key processes and outcomes related to the implementation of cancer control.
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The Evolution of Performance Measures for the National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program
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| Julie Townsend, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, jtownsend@cdc.gov
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| Chris Stockmyer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zll6@cdc.gov
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| Susan Derrick, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, srd3@cdc.gov
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| Angela Moore, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cyq6@cdc.gov
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| Behnoosh Momin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fqv6@cdc.gov
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The National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program performance measurement system must evolve to reflect new priority areas to ensure accountability, measure outcomes, and facilitate quality improvement. In 2010, CDC refined program priorities for the long-standing NCCCP. The performance measurement system needs to systematically capture grantee performance on existing recipient activities as well as these priority areas. CCCB evaluators initiated a process to map priority areas to domains that accurately reflect common recipient activities. Domain areas that were identified relate to partnerships, data and surveillance, evidence based interventions, technical assistance and training, policy, system, and environmental changes, communication, and evaluation. Another key activity related to the refining of this system is the conducting of an environmental scan that assesses performance measures of other chronic disease programs. These activities will enable CCCB to monitor implementation of the priorities and will provide data for linking NCCCP efforts with cancer control outcomes.
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