Table 3.
Sustainability concept addressed in some objectives or strategies of the following plans.
| State | Section(s) where sustainability is referenced |
|---|---|
| Alabama | Funding cancer control initiatives: work with policy makers and partners to ensure that budgetary costs of cancer control in Alabama will be based on expected improvements in long-term societal costs. To ensure sustainability, reach out to new partners |
| Tobacco: indoor clean air policy. Tobacco excise tax increases | |
| California | Health disparities: provide capacity building, technical assistance, and resources to sustain local efforts; expand federal and state funding for services related to reducing disparities, especially in areas identified as gaps; assist local coalitions in identifying outside private funding sources |
| Prostate cancer: support funding for research to identify better screening tools and develop treatment options | |
| Advocacy: educate public, healthcare professionals, and policy makers to garner support for funding; participate in media advocacy efforts | |
| Breast cancer: support research and grants for clinical trials, state and federal funding for access to screening and diagnosis, private funding, and grants for uninsured and under-insured people | |
| Cervical cancer: develop and promote clinical standards and professional education materials that promote follow-up and treatment for abnormal screening tests. Support funding for state and federally funded programs | |
| Advocate for funding of melanoma research | |
| Increase National Cancer Institute funding for ovarian cancer research in California by 38% | |
| Colorado | Sustain colorectal screening funding for un- and under-insured |
| Support the development of a sustainable mechanism for collecting the data to monitor sun safety guidelines in schools | |
| Increase funding to expand and sustain survivor education | |
| Connecticut | Partners charged to work collaboratively to leverage support for implementation, using plan as a guide for resource allocation |
| Delaware | Monitor draft policies related to clean indoor air |
| Support funding for physical activity | |
| District of Columbia | A cross-cutting theme throughout the plan is to identify and develop public and private funding sources |
| Sustain and expand data collection | |
| Florida | Infrastructure: secure funds for cancer control |
| Advocate for research advances | |
| Overarching strategy: policy and legislation | |
| Georgia | Plan contains a section on sustainability which includes funding and work-force needs. The tobacco settlement is referenced as a key funding source |
| Hawaii | Advocate for equal access to, and adequate resources for screening and care |
| Establish policies for prevention and early detection, affordable care, and support for survivors and families | |
| Illinois | Implementation section addresses sustainability |
| Advocate for increased funding for screening, survivorship, data surveillance, research, and clinical trials | |
| Tobacco policy | |
| Indiana | Funding for tobacco education, screening for low-income individuals, Indiana Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and the Comprehensive Cancer Control Program |
| Iowa | Build and sustain coalitions |
| Kansas | Advocate for funding for school physical activity programs, fruit and vegetable consumption in schools, early detection |
| Kentucky | Sustained infrastructure for tobacco initiatives, funding for tobacco prevention and control, advocate for colon cancer screening |
| Louisiana | Identify funding sources for cancer control programs |
| Maine | Pursue sustainable funding and legislative support for Maine CCC Plan |
| Use program evaluation framework to assure sustainability of plan | |
| Maryland | Tobacco policies |
| Massachusetts | Develop and sustain collaborations to reduce cancer-related health disparities and promote health equity |
| Create and sustain a cancer policy and legislative agenda that supports projects across the continuum | |
| Create and sustain environments that support prevention | |
| Michigan | Coalition guiding principles include sustainability |
| Minnesota | Advocate for sustained funding for programs related to healthy eating, physical activity, healthy weight, tobacco control |
| Establish consistent and reliable funding for tobacco control | |
| Missouri | Advocate for funding to tobacco initiatives and fitness initiatives |
| Montana | Advocate for tobacco policies and childhood cancer survivors’ quality of life services |
| Nebraska | Sustain detection and screening programs |
| Advocate for increased taxes on tobacco products | |
| Nevada | Advocate for research funding |
| New Hampshire | Support tobacco prevention program funding |
| Enhance existing and develop new strategies to advocate for continued funding for breast cancer screening | |
| New Mexico | Support policy changes to help cancer survivors |
| New York | Fund professional education programs related to cancer treatment and care |
| Support/fund quality improvement collaboratives to ensure providers recommend evidence-based, guideline-driven cancer screening, diagnostic, and treatment services | |
| Support tobacco control and education policies | |
| North Dakota | Support cancer screening programs and care for un- and under-insured individuals |
| Ohio | Advocate for funding for tobacco control (use of settlement money) and research |
| Rhode Island | Encourage funding of screening |
| Support policies related to tobacco control, physical activity in schools, and skin cancer screening | |
| South Carolina | The plan contains a section on health policy and advocacy. The coalition works to ensure that laws, ordinances, and policies protect our citizens from cancer |
| Tennessee | Promote and support funding for research, nutrition education, screening, colorectal cancer control, the under-insured, and prostate cancer awareness |
| Texas | Develop or strengthen the infrastructure supporting the delivery of cancer prevention and care services |
| Advocate for funding for tobacco control, obesity prevention and control, nutrition and physical activity recommendations, epidemiologic and environmental monitoring and research, survivorship programs to improve quality of life, and infrastructure supporting collection of quality cancer data and delivery of cancer prevention and care | |
| Promote funding opportunities across the spectrum of cancer research | |
| Utah | Secure the resources needed to execute the plan |
| The Utah plan also includes detail on plan implementation, which supports the concept of sustainability: the Utah Cancer Action Network consists of implementation teams. Each team is asked to select at least one objective or strategy to work on over the course of a year. Teams develop an action plan that provides an outline for accomplishing their chosen intervention. As part of the action plan, teams identify which goal, objective, and strategy they will work on, what will be measured, and what activities will need to be completed in order to accomplish the task. A lead person is selected, key partners identified, a timeline is set, and needed resources determined | |
| Virginia | Advocate for education policies regarding skin cancer, an increase in the number of adolescents and young adults that receive the HPV vaccination, improved access to evidenced-based programs for early detection, healthcare policies that promote appropriate use of palliative care |
| Wisconsin | Strategies and action steps will be prioritized annually for implementation by the Steering Committee through a systematic process using specific, measurable criteria. The resulting priorities will set the direction for the implementation efforts of the state-wide coalition for the following year |
| Wyoming | Advocacy efforts are highlighted as steps to sustain the work of the coalition |