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Intentional Storytelling To Sustain Low-Cost/Free Breast Cancer Services: A Latina Example Of Community-Driven Advocacy, Ayokunle Olagoke, Katherine Reyes, Liliana G. San Miguel, Paola Torres, Casandra Robledo, William Kling, Maria Medina, Juanita Arroyo, Carmen Garcia, Nora Coronado, Olivia Hernandez, Araceli Lucio, Hunter T. Norris, Vida Henderson, Yamilé Molina

Health and Kinesiology Faculty Publications

Background: Community-based public health advocacy efforts are crucial to sustaining the low-cost/free breast cancer services that support underserved populations.

Objectives: We introduce two ways in which narrative theory may be a useful tool for developing advocacy materials and provide an example, using a community–academic partnership to promote Latina breast health in Chicago, Illinois.

Methods: Community and academic partners 1) engaged 25 Spanish-speaking Latinas in an advocacy workshop, 2) leveraged narrative theory to develop multi-media advocacy materials, and 3) disseminated materials to policymakers.

Lessons Learned: Our project highlights 1) that narrative theory may be useful to describe how Latinas engage policy-makers …

Intentional Storytelling To Sustain Low-Cost/Free Breast Cancer Services: A Latina Example Of Community-Driven Advocacy, Ayokunle Olagoke, Katherine Reyes, Liliana G. San Miguel, Paola Torres, Casandra Robledo, William Kling, Maria Medina, Juanita Arroyo, Carmen Garcia, Nora Coronado, Olivia Hernandez, Hunter T. Norris, Vida Henderson, Yamilé Molina

Health and Kinesiology Faculty Publications

Background: Community-based public health advocacy efforts are crucial to sustaining the low-cost/free breast cancer services that support underserved populations.

Objectives: We introduce two ways in which narrative theory may be a useful tool for developing advocacy materials and provide an example, using a community–academic partnership to promote Latina breast health in Chicago, Illinois.

Methods: Community and academic partners 1) engaged 25 Spanish-speaking Latinas in an advocacy workshop, 2) leveraged narrative theory to develop multi-media advocacy materials, and 3) disseminated materials to policymakers.

Lessons Learned: Our project highlights 1) that narrative theory may be useful to describe how Latinas engage policy-makers …

Evaluation Of A Drowning Prevention Campaign In A Vietnamese American Community, Linda Quan Md, Elena Shephard Md, Elizabeth Bennett Ches, Mph

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

To address Washington State’s high pediatric fatal drowning rates in Asian children, especially Vietnamese, we conducted and evaluated a community water safety campaign for Vietnamese American families. Working with community groups, parks departments and public health, we disseminated three messages (learn to swim, swim with a lifeguard, and wear a life jacket) in Vietnamese media and at events, increased access to free/low cost swim lessons and availability of lifeguarded settings and life jackets in the community. Parents completed 168 pre- and 230 post-intervention self-administered, bilingual surveys. Significantly more post-intervention compared to pre-intervention respondents had heard water safety advice …