Community Leader Training Programs

Live and In Person Training Programs

The Community Leader Training Program empowers community leaders to spread the message about the importance of cancer clinical trials to their peers in interactive, one hour workshops that help community leaders learn how to increase awareness about and participation in cancer clinical trials. This peer-to-peer approach includes an open and honest dialogue about clinical research, and helps to:

• Build on the strengths and resources within the community 
• Involve communities that have been marginalized by the health care system 
• Increase trust and bridge cultural gaps between researchers and communities (traditionally a critical barrier in clinical trial outreach and education)
• Enhance access to clinical trials 
• Promote inquiry about clinical trials 
• Change cancer care in their communities by spreading the word about the importance of cancer clinical trials and the fact that today's standard therapies are yesterday's clinical trials.

ENACCT's training program for community leaders features two interrelated components:

Train the Trainers" Program:
This program enables health care providers to become "provider trainers", teaches them how to conduct a two-hour workshop with their peers, and provides them with the tools they need to spread the word about the importance of cancer clinical trials.

Community Leader Workshops:
Led by peer trainers, these workshops are designed to: increase knowledge and awareness about cancer clinical trials; equip health care providers with the tools and skills needed to make appropriate referrals; and inform patients about clinical trials as an important option in cancer treatment and care. A number of different modules are available, and each includes trainers' guides and participant guides

Please contact us if you would like to receive more information regarding our live community leader training programs.

Web-Based Courses

LEVEL I
Your Role: How You Can be an Advocate for Cancer Clinical Trials in Your Community
For community leaders and patient advocates, this course is designed to prompt action on sharing information about the importance of clinical trials and encouraging all patients to ask about clinical trials regardless of diagnostic stage.  

LEVEL II
Your Role In Action: Community Leaders & Patient Advocates 
This course is designed to share practical examples of how individuals and groups across the country have successfully implemented approaches to community-based cancer clinical trials education and outreach. 

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