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This toolkit is designed to help stakeholders implement evidence-based practices when communicating about the importance of addressing health disparities in order to advance health equity. It can also help you plan, implement and evaluate your social media strategy and make the case for why it’s important. Public health professionals, cancer control professionals, cancer centers, coalitions, community-based organizations and other stakeholders can use this toolkit and adapt its messaging for their unique audiences and areas of expertise.

Throughout the month of August, NACCHO’s National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) Blog Series highlights the importance of immunizations across the lifespan. This week’s NIAM Blog Series post takes us to Florida, where high rates of human papilloma virus (HPV)-associated cancers and low HPV vaccination rates led the Florida Department of Health in Broward County (DOH-Broward) to take action.

Policy, Systems and Environmental Change: Effectively Engaging Your Coalition When Working with the Media is a resource that coalitions and policy committees or task force groups can use to achieve their healthy community goals. Media plays a major role in shaping our perceptions and influencing our decisions. Information in the media impacts public understanding of health, which in turn, affects health beliefs, health behaviors, health care practices, and policy- making. As public health practitioners continue to shift their focus towards physical, social, environmental, and political factors that affect health, media engagement has become a vital part of any health campaign or practice. The purpose of this guide is to provide coalitions with information and tools they can use to organize their media efforts and maximize their success. It serves as a companion to the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Media Plan Guidance: How to create and implement an effective media plan and the Policy Systems and Environmental Change Resource Guide.

Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) programs and coalitions are developing strategies and implementing interventions that are successfully impacting policy, systems, and environmental changes and influencing health behaviors. Although the many accomplishments have been documented by CCC programs and coalitions through the creation of success stories, publicizing and disseminating the stories can pose a challenge. Promoting Existing Comprehensive Cancer Control Successes provides a framework that can guide CCC programs and cancer coalitions in sharing their success stories with a broad audience. It is based on interviews conducted with representatives from CCC Programs and cancer coalitions who shared their experiences in successfully promoting their stories.