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Community Outreach Advocacy - pg 5 How Do I Become a Community Outreach Advocate? Advocates can volunteer with national advocacy organizations. Each organization has education, research, legislative or fundraising advocacy opportunities. Just search online under the type of cancer advocacy you are interested in. There is not one path on how to become a community outreach advocate. Advocates can volunteer at their local cancer center or in their faith communities. The main thing is to volunteer. Advocates can volunteer at their work places, especially if they work in a health related environment. Do a good job at what you decide to volunteer for and you will be asked to do more. Some advocates have established relationships with other community leaders and have the ability to form strong coalitions that have the ability to make great change in their communities.

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Training in Community Outreach Advocacy

If you want to become a community outreach advocate in the area of cancer, you should first educate yourself about cancer. You should get your information from good, reliable resources whose information represents the latest evidence based information available.

“Cancer Information and Support Network” is a good, reliable resource.

You are on this site now. This site has many good modules for learning about cancer that start off very basic and gradually get more complex in content. Each module also has a quiz, so you can make sure you are grasping the concept before moving to the next module. The recommended modules are:

• CISN Training Introduction & Instructions
  https://www.cisncancer.org/eTraining/eQuiz_Intro.html
  • This page is an overview of training modules offered by CISN.
• CISN e-Training/Quiz1 - Cancer 101
  https://www.cisncancer.org/cancer101/index.html
  • This training is intended for advocates, patients and anyone else who would like a basic understanding of what cancer is. Everyone is encouraged to start here as vocabulary and basic concepts are introduced at this point.
• CISN e-Training/Quiz2 - What We Know About Cancer https://www.cisncancer.org/research/what_we_know/overview.html
  • This training will test your knowledge of cancer at a more advanced level. It includes questions on basic biology as well as advances in cancer research including the "OMICS" revolution and personalized medicine.
• CISN e-Training/Quiz3 - How Cancer is Studied https://www.cisncancer.org/research/how_cancer_is_studied/overview.html
  • This training is designed to test your knowledge of each field of cancer research including their methods and tools.
• CISN e-Training/Quiz4 - Drug Development https://www.cisncancer.org/research/drug_development/overview.html
  • This training is designed to test your knowledge about the drug development process including target identification, the regulatory process and the stakeholders involved.
• CISN e-Training/Quiz5 - New Horizons in Cancer Treatments https://www.cisncancer.org/research/new_treatments/overview.html
  • This training is designed to test your knowledge about the recent advances in cancer diagnosis and treatment plus the new tools needed.
• CISN e-Training/Quiz6-Personalized Medicine https://www.cisncancer.org/personalized_medicine/index.html
  • This training is designed to test your knowledge of personalized medicine including ethics, tissue donation and molecular diagnostics.

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