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Updates

Reaching Muslim Women through the Mosque

Megersa – working on bringing together organizations in African communities

Peer Educator models continued

Megersa’s position will end June 30^th due to funding.

Adverse reaction HPV vaccine   syncopal episodes. Occurring L age 16 and when mixed with other vaccines need clarification

Merck pulling back from supporting mandate – HPV vaccine

Peer educator program Center for New American – Dr. Kate Onyeneho.

Project was a Peer Educator training project, breast cancer focus, navigating medical system, nutrition, and physical activity, prostate and lung cancer, addressing barriers and a “toolkit” for community and home-based education.

Experiencing delay as IRB approval is still pending & need to provide more information to Islamic center of MN

Ex: Somali Confederation, African Community Services

Important to look at what’s been done already.

Niccu will begin to summarize outcomes           begin to identify possible communities for a “Train the Trainer” project

Excellent success keeping projects going and bringing organizations into MCA.  Gay and Megersa to meet soon to discuss tasks of cervical team.

 Marva will contact Dr Downs for more information & circulate an e-mail

Senator Solon also pulling back from mandate and considering establishing Cervical Advisory Group

 MaKeisha and Elizabeth will be withdrawing from the project and assessing other opportunity to develop “Train the Trainer” projects

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Cervical resources data base

Somali women in St Cloud

Funding

Simplifying Cervical Screening message

Mary Winnet willing to write a grant to cover cost to get cervical data base converted to Oracle format and other details to make data base easy to use and maintain.

St. Cloud Somali Event

When Women’s Cancer Resource Center closed, PWP funding on hiatus. Now WCRC has sold building and returned funding

Message has become complicated, Paps – how often, HPV tests, vaccines, how often to screen  MOC group MN Outreach Coalition reports episodes of variance between educational messages and what provider may tell patients

After educational presentation MOC will start to work on simplification of message accurate, easy to understand.

Providers may have constraints in discussion cervical screening with patients (time, lack of educational materials).Patients may see different providers, hear different guidance and not have good understanding of what medical test and how often

Group supportive of this

March 23

10 – 12 women

B & C education and an opportunity to explore best way to bring information to this community

Money returned to Marva at U, so a bit of additional funding available for small projects.

Educational update on:

1.     Cervical cancer screening will be provided to MOC

Office of Minority and Multi-cultural health Hispanic Outreach workers will be invited also, and others

March 15^th – Pat Radabaugh will present

Goal:  Accurate, easy, simple to explain message – consistent

Niccu wants to remind about literacy in the development of cervical message

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See, test and treat

Next meeting:

Tuesday March 27^th

10 – 12

Littlefork Room

SOP

Kristin suggest breaking into subcommittees and thoughtful process development of message development project as is a very large undertaking include providers – how message delivered in addition to what message is

2^nd Informational meeting will be scheduled soon

Elisabeth Atherly will be guest team facilitator

Timeline:  Sept (GYN Cancer Awareness Month)