October 2024 Impact Brief
We are proud to announce that NACDD has been awarded funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for several new projects and initiatives.
NACDD is one of 48 organizations that received funding via the five-year National Partners Cooperative Agreement from the CDC Public Health Infrastructure Center (PHIC). NACDD was awarded $21 million to lead 28 projects that support CDC’s goal to increase the knowledge, skill, and ability of the U.S. public health workforce to deliver essential services, improve organizational and systems capacity and capacity building to address health priorities.
With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I’d like to highlight another vital CDC project recently awarded to NACDD, “Supporting Young Breast Cancer Survivors, Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients, and Their Families.”
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the U.S. Early-onset breast cancer—diagnosed in women younger than 45—is often more aggressive and is more likely to reduce the patient’s life expectancy and cause physical, psychosocial, and financial challenges.
This new project seeks to provide support to entities that improve the quality of life among young breast cancer survivors and young metastatic breast cancer patients, as well as to increase equitable access and availability of psychosocial and structural support services for patients, and their families, and improve patient-provider interactions during follow-up care.
You can find updates on this project and all our cancer-related work at chronicdisease.org/cancer. I also encourage you to check out the many resources we have available, including the Bring Your Brave project, which shares vital information about breast cancer to women under 45. NACDD partnered with the CDC and Red Glass Pictures to create the Bring Your Brave campaign, which includes a suite of digital resources to support family discussions and cancer prevention strategies. The campaign was awarded a gold medal in the 3rd Annual Anthem Awards.
NACDD also recently developed two valuable tools for addressing health disparities and improving access to cancer screening as part of the Cancer Peer-to-Peer Learning Program (P2P). P2P is a recipient-informed learning and engagement opportunity that supports recipients of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) and the Colorectal Cancer Control Program (CRCCP) to engage with their peers on important topics.
These resources offer evidence-based information to support State Health Departments, partners, stakeholders, and clinics in their efforts to improve access to cancer screening and reduce barriers, especially for underserved and underrepresented populations. (Learn more).
October 18 is National Mammography Day, a reminder of the importance of regular mammograms and breast screenings in early breast cancer detection. Take the time now to schedule your routine mammogram or encourage someone you love to schedule theirs.
NACDD also received two grants from CDC for tobacco cessation under the Building Capacity to Increase Commercial Tobacco Cessation funding, which will support state-level capacity building for evidence-based cessation interventions, prioritizing strategies that reach populations experiencing tobacco-related disparities.
The new tobacco projects will be housed in NACDD’s Center for Advancing Health Communities and will build upon our existing efforts as a Tobacco National Network for Reaching People with Disabilities. Component 2 of the project will promote and support the implementation of health systems change initiatives that seek to integrate tobacco dependence treatment into routine clinical care across clinical settings, and Component 3 will promote and support improvements to health insurance coverage for evidence-based tobacco cessation treatments (including individual, quitline, and group counseling, as well as FDA-approved medications).
We are grateful for our partnership with and support from CDC. Collaboratively, these efforts along with other ongoing projects and partnerships will strengthen public health practice through initiatives that advance the nation’s public health infrastructure and performance.
For a complete list of PHIC-funded recipients and more information, visit CDC’s website.
World Stroke Day is October 29. Tobacco use is a major risk factor for stroke. Check out CDC’s Stroke Communications Toolkit and Tips From Former Smokers campaign.