1. Erie St. Clair Regional Integrated Cancer Screening Team

2. 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

3. Getting the word out…..
+ Faxes
+ s
+ Phone Calls!

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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

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

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