CSI Spotlight: Campaign to Control Cancer

Today's spotlight is on CSI member The Campaign to Control Cancer.

1) How long have you been a CSI member?

Our group (The Campaign to Control Cancer) has only been with CSI for a month

2) What's the best part of being at CSI?

Being surrounded by other great organizations.

3) What has being at CSI meant for your organization/business?

Its a chance to build partnerships with other CSI organizations

4) What are you working on right now?

A project called Community Conversations on Cancer which are volunteer-led events of 6 or more people, where participants provided with questions about cancer and cancer control. Conversations can take place in homes, businesses, schools, hospitals, places of worship, community centers, and anywhere else that a group chooses to meet. The conversations are great because you don't have to be a professional or cancer expert to host one. People who host conversations fill out an online survey after their conversation and we then take these surveys and create a report which we distribute to elected officials.
 
We are also going to be having a Cancer Day of Action in provincial legislatures across Canada on November 3rd. The goal of the 2010 Cancer Day of Action is to educate, energize and unify professional, patient, advocate, providers and citizens in order to give voice to Canadians concerned about cancer issues. It will be a chance for citizens to meet with elected officials about their concerns and to tell politicians to push forward with a policy on catastrophic drug coverage.

5) Have you collaborated with other CSI members on projects, and if so, can you share an example or two?

No, not yet.

6) Tell us something that other CSI members might not know about you.

This year we collaborated with Stephen Lewis and brought  "The People vs. Cancer" - Ontario Speaking Tour with Stephen Lewis to five Ontario universities. Students, faculty, staff, members of the community and elected officials, were invited to participate and hear Stephen Lewis bring a global health activist point of view to the challenge of engaging Canadian universities and students in shaping and supporting a new response to controlling cancer.