Jessica Roark, MBA, CCHW
Navigation Outreach Specialist Southwest Virginia
Sarah Knight, MPH, CHES
Research and Evaluation Specialist
Yellow Door Foundation Apartment Refurbishment
Yellow Door Foundation
This project aims to renovate four of their eight Charlottesville apartments, which for six years have been a free home away from home for the families of pediatric cancer and transplant patients for the duration of the child’s treatment at UVA Health Children’s.
Hopecam Champions of Hope
Hopecam
This project aims to help children receiving cancer treatment overcome social isolation by providing them tablets, laptops, internet access and Hopecam resources to connect them virtually with classmates and peers at no cost.
The Primary Care Partnership WellAware Program
The Primary Care Partnership
This program in Charlottesville aims to broaden services such as transportation, food deliveries, home visits, health coaching and outreach to improve engagement with cancer services and expand the public’s knowledge about cancer.
Vance Street Missionary Baptist Church Cutting Cancer
Vance Street Missionary Baptist Church
This project in Danville promotes awareness of the importance of early cancer detection by engaging community members in culturally appropriate cancer conversations, screening education and resources to navigate the healthcare system.
HCB2 Colon Online on Land (COOL)
Hitting Cancer Below the Belt (HCB2)
This project brings colorectal cancer education and screening messaging to communities online, on land, and even on wheels to raise the level of conversation around colorectal cancer in ways that move people in Virginia from awareness to action.
Victoria Bartfai
Health District 2 Co-Chair
Virginia Department of Health, Cumberland Plateau Health District
Module 4: Building Community Partnerships
Build and strengthen community partnerships Improve listening skills to assist in partnership development, and Develop strategies to promote trust and manage conflict
Module 3 Bidirectional Value
Define Ethics Understand ethical principles in community engaged research The value of bidirectional relationships, and Community expertise in community engaged research