Trauma-informed Cancer Care ECHO Series Informational Office Hours

Join our Trauma-informed Cancer Care ECHO Series!

The National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco and Cancer Control (NBHN) is excited to announce our new Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) series, Beyond the Diagnosis: Integrating Trauma-informed Approaches in Cancer Care. ECHO is a collaborative model of education and care management that helps professionals provide expert-level care and education wherever they live. 

The intersection of trauma and cancer care has emerged as a critical area of focus in comprehensive cancer control efforts. Research demonstrates that having cancer can be psychologically challenging and potentially traumatic. For some people, cancer treatment can also bring back previous, unrelated trauma. This complex interplay calls for a trauma-informed approach to address the needs of cancer patients, particularly those with co-occurring mental health or substance use challenges. 

Alongside ECHO faculty and subject-matter experts, participants will learn about the basics of trauma-informed care (TIC) principles and how to implement them across the cancer care continuum. In five 90-minute sessions from January-May 2025, participants will focus on creating opportunities to integrate TIC principles and support mental wellbeing through their cancer prevention and control efforts. 

This ECHO is open to people who work in cancer care, cancer centers, clinicians and their teams. We highly encourage staff from national comprehensive cancer control programs and cancer coalitions to apply.  

After this ECHO, participants will be able to: 

• Understand how TIC principles can be integrated into comprehensive cancer control efforts to address the needs of cancer patients with co-occurring mental health and substance use challenges. 

• Identify practical strategies for incorporating trauma-informed approaches into cancer prevention, screening, treatment and survivorship programs at the state and community level. 

• Explore ways that cancer coalitions and health systems can collaborate to implement trauma-informed cancer care practices across diverse oncology settings and populations. 

Register for our upcoming Office Hour with the ECHO faculty on Thursday, Dec. 12, 1-2 p.m. ET to learn more about this opportunity. 

Register for the Office Hour

Submit Your Application

Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on Dec. 16, 2024 

This ECHO series is supported by the National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco and Cancer Control (NBHN) in association with the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. NBHN is jointly funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control and Office on Smoking and Health. 

If you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact ZacharyP@TheNationalCouncil.org.