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KCP works with community partners to provide outreach services, mobilize resources, and build community capacity to address cancer issues and problems. Specifically, KCP provides:
- Educational Programs to promote lifestyle behaviors to prevent cancer and to detect it early, with a special focus on cancer of the breast, cervix, colon, lung, prostate, and skin.
- Educational Exhibits at health fairs, church events, community festivals, and other location, which feature Dermascans to assess sun damage to the skin, CO monitors to assess harmful effects of smoking, and other interactive, visual aids.
- Community Screenings in collaboration with health care providers to improve access and to detect cancer in early stages.
- Special Events in recognition of national observances, such as National Cancer Survivor's Day, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and others.
- Workplace Programs like Going Smoke Free…It’s Your Business to guide employers on policies and cessation programs.
- Community Coalitions: Collaborating with partners and participating in coalitions, KCP leverages resources to enhance program development and improve cancer outcomes. KCP has worked with the Kentucky Department for Public Health to organize more than 50 breast and cervix coalitions across the state to increase breast and cervical cancer screening among low income women. KCP also participates in local tobacco coalitions to address the state's greatest cancer challenge.
- Free Education Information/Materials in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute; and promote the use of the Cancer Information Service, 1-800-4-CANCER.
- Risk Reduction Interventions
- Cooper Clayton
Since 2001 KCP has provided facilitator training and assisted with program development and evaluation for the Cooper/Clayton Method to Stop Smoking. This successful science-based smoking cessation program uses education, skills training, and social support in combination with use of nicotine replacement products. One-hour weekly classes are spread over 13 weeks. There is also a Cooper/Clayton Self Help program available for people who cannot, or prefer not to, participate in a class. - Cooper/Clayton Facilitator Training
- Cooper/Clayton Materials
- Aspire is a web-based smoking prevention interactive experience for adolescents, using animation and live videos to communicate the facts about smoking and tobacco use. Users learn how to make the best choices to stay on the path to good health.
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