Erie St. Clair Regional Integrated Cancer Screening Team

Connecting Frontline Teams to Save Lives… WHAT: Lunch/events + interactive ½ day workshops WHY: ESC RCP strategic priority: Work with Primary Care to Increase Cancer Screening WHO: Non physician staff of Primary Care offices in ESC (about 400 in region) WHEN: June 2013, Nov 2013, June 2014 WHERE: 2 in Windsor, 1 in Chatham, 1 in Sarnia

Getting the word out….. + Faxes + Emails + Phone Calls!

Getting the people out……. Stipends (first year) Early Bird Registration Draw Prizes Giveaways Pampering Lunch Nice venues Interactive, fun

Build it and they will come! Almost 300 participants……. Session # of Participants #1 June 2013 105 #2 November 2013 85 #3 June 2014 102

Series 1 intro to team, 3 screening programs, jeopardy, brainstorming activity Series 2 high risk genetics, smoking cessation, pilot project concept testing, cancer screening in PCP Series 3 Keynote, DAPs, immunizations, dealing with difficult people, brain games

Feedback and Evaluation….. Feedback form to assess satisfaction and gather suggestions Clicker questions used to measure change Highlights from #3: 98% very satisfied with event 93% will share info in office 90% thinks office will benefit from info 87% will do something different in their office

Costs 1st series: $24K ($6,200 sponsorship) major costs were stipends ($9,000 worth) and material development 2nd series: $13K ($5,000 sponsorship) major costs were stipends and venues 3rd series: $8K major costs were venues/food and speakers

Benefits Long term partnerships and goodwill Identify partners for other projects Learn from participants Raise awareness, knowledge Change in practice

Challenges…. Achieving sufficient participation tough – especially in outlying areas Staff time to implement considerable Keeping material ‘new’ and ‘interesting’ a challenge

Into the Future….. Annual face to face ½ day + event Webinars, topic specific, shorter sessions throughout the year Frontline Connect Advisory Council