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Join our Trauma Informed Care (TIC) ECHO Series!
The National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco and Cancer Control (NBHN) is excited to announce our new ECHO Series, Beyond the Diagnosis: Integrating Trauma-Informed Approaches in Cancer Care. ECHO — Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes — is a collaborative model of education and care management that helps professionals provide expert-level care and education wherever they live.
Trauma and cancer care have emerged as a critical area of focus in comprehensive cancer control efforts. Research demonstrates that the experience of cancer can be psychologically challenging and potentially traumatic, with some individuals experiencing re-traumatization due to previous non-cancer-related trauma. This complex interplay between trauma and cancer care necessitates a trauma-informed approach to address the needs of cancer patients, particularly those with co-occurring mental health and substance use challenges.
Alongside faculty and subject-matter experts, ECHO participants will learn about trauma-informed care (TIC) principles and how to implement them across the cancer care continuum. The series will cover the basics of TIC and how to integrate TIC principles into cancer control and prevention initiatives, including cancer care. Across five, 90-minute sessions from January through May 2025, participants will focus on creating opportunities to integrate TIC principles and support mental wellbeing through their cancer control and prevention efforts.
Register for our upcoming Office Hour with the ECHO faculty on Thursday, December 12, 1-2:00 p.m. ET to learn more about this opportunity!
This opportunity 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 case practices across diverse oncology settings and populations.
Register for the Office Hour
Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on December 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 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.