The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA

Abstract #68988

Ross F. Conner, PhD¹, Sora Park Tanjasiri, DrPH, MPH², Erualdo Gonzalez², Alice Bae, BA³, Mary Anne Foo, MPH⁴, Donna Lin⁵, Wendy Yoo³, Lucy Young⁵, and Carol Wang⁵. (1) School of Social Ecology, Center for Community Health Research, University of California Irvine, Building SE 1, Irvine, CA 92697-7075, 949-824-6746, rfconner@uci.edu, (2) Urban & Regional Planning, UCI School of Social Ecology, MPAA 328, Irvine, CA 92697-7075, (3) Orange County Korean American Health Information & Education Center, 9636 Garden Grove Blvd, #20, Garden Grove, CA 92844, (4) Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance, 12900 Garden Grove Blvd, #214A, Garden Grove, CA 92843, (5) Asian American Senior Citizens Service Center, 301 Civic Center Drive West, Santa Ana, CA 92701

The ACCT Project (Achieving Cancer Control Together with Korean and Chinese Communities in Orange County, CA) involves two community-based coalitions working in different ways on cancer control, in collaboration with a countywide Asian Pacific Islander alliance and a university evaluation team. ACCT started with a two-year planning effort, based on the World Health Organization’s Healthy Cities/Communities framework and a related framework recently used in the Colorado Healthy Communities Initiative. This APHA presentation will describe the model the communities used (involving community scanning, community sectoral/interests analysis, stakeholder recruitment, vision development, and action project selection) and present results on the differences in implementation and outcomes of the planning process in the communities. The Chinese process involved an ever-expanding group of diverse stakeholders who collectively moved the effort forward. The Korean process involved a small group who outreached to diverse community sectors/members, brought their ideas and interests back to the small group, then moved the effort forward. We will discuss reasons for these differences and their effects on outcomes (i.e., planned activities, some of which are currently underway), and present implications for other community planning efforts, particularly for minority communities, and for the development of community-based infrastructure for planning, action and evaluation.

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will be able to:
• Describe the four partners and the unique ACCT partnership.
• Explain the “healthy cities/communities” planning model and the ACCT variations.
• Articulate the implementation differences between the two communities, the reasons for these, their effect on outcomes, and their implications for other minority communities.

Keywords: Community-Based Public Health, Asian Americans

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I have a significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
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