Appendix
Plan for Action
Resources
This worksheet is to help you determine how to accomplish your
goals for clinical trial outreach and education. We hope that this
planning will inspire you to take realistic steps towards your
goals. You may want to print this appendix for future reference.
Please be realistic in planning; you do not need to fill out every
page.
1. Remind yourself why you/your organization want(s) to get
involved in clinical trial outreach and education. Sometimes it can
be helpful to list these reasons before you plan your efforts.
List five reasons:
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2. Given your interest in the above topic areas, which of the
following activities do you feel ready to undertake during the next 6
months or next year?
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Read through the entire action plan before you begin to
check your interests. Be realistic about your other
commitments!
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Ways to Educate Yourself
Use NCI resources to keep up-to-date with new clinical trial
information, including www.cancer.gov
Find local clinical trials in your community
Attend conferences, meetings, and workshops
Ways to Educate Others, One-on-One
Find opportunities to talk to others-neighbors, friends, and
coworkers-about clinical trials, and about the common myths
surrounding clinical trials, and where to find more information on
clinical trials
Help others understand how to evaluate research in the news
Ways to Conduct Community Outreach and Education
Find opportunities and develop a strategy to speak about
clinical trials and/or:
Write articles for newsletters; post articles on Web sites
Host an information session or community forum on clinical
trials
Form a clinical trial advocacy coalition
Ways to Work with the Media
Develop a media campaign
Contact local media outlets about running a story related to
clinical trials
Write a letter to the editor or an op-ed piece for your local
newspaper
Ways to Work with Hospitals, Medical Centers, and
Universities
Help researchers design and conduct clinical trial recruitment
efforts
Find ways to get primary care doctors, oncologists, and oncology
nurses to understand local clinical trial resources and to refer
people to trials
Find out how you can serve on a local institutional review board
(IRB)
3. What resources will you need to get these activities
accomplished? (Think about time, organizations, and individuals.)
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4. Name five steps you will take to begin planning these
activities. Be as specific as possible.
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5. What challenges do you see standing in your way of
accomplishing these activities?
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6. How can you address these challenges? If you are working as a
part of a larger organizational effort, how can you get support from
your organization?
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Education and Training. (2000). North Carolina State University
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: North Carolina Cooperative
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How You Can be an Advocate for Change: Action Against Cancer.
(1997). Washington, DC: Center for the Advancement of Health.
KU Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development.
(2000). Community Tool Box. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas.
[Online], Available: http://ctb.ukans.edu/tools/EN/section_1045.htm.
Stevens, G.L. (1990). A Process for Building Coalitions. Lincoln,
NE: Cooperative Extension, Institute of Agriculture and Natural
Resources, University of Nebraska. [Online], Available:
http://ianrwww.unl.edu/pubs/family/g988.htm
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. (1999). Educational
materials for affiliate distribution. Clinical Research Affiliates
Funding Trials (CRAFT).
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