Abstract Background: The Community Outreach Core (COC) of the Pacific Island Partnership for Cancer Health for Everyone (PIPCHE) aims to improve health equity for medically underserved populations including Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI). PIPCHE is a partnership between the University of Hawai’i Cancer Center and the University of Guam that began in 2003 whose efforts are focused on Hawaiʻi, Guam and the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI). The COC directly addresses the disproportionately high rates of cancer incidence and mortality found within NHPI often due to multiple complex historical, social, cultural, and environmental factors. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in nearly all the USAPI jurisdictions. Kōkua Kalihi Valley (KKV) Comprehensive Family Services is a federally qualified health center serving diverse communities in Honolulu, including Asian and NHPIs, with many provided clinical care in languages other than English. Methods: Beginning in 2023, our COC collaborated with KKV to provide health and social resources to families within one public housing community where NHPI are overrepresented. KKV led health fairs and community events which the COC joined. Sponsors and community organizations also taking part in these community events included Medicare/Medicaid services, dental care, literacy programs, and career and vision services. To date, the COC has taken part in nine community events with our KKV partnership within one public housing community, and an additional site was added that provides supportive housing for formerly homeless households. Our outreach efforts have addressed NHPI cancer inequities by raising awareness of the high cancer burdens experienced by these underserved communities. COC efforts include resource sharing, data collection, participant interviews, and recruiting at these venues in Hawaiʻi. The COC’s focus is on promoting cancer screening by age, gender, and cancer type. These recommendations were provided to all attendees through a flyer and discussed and also normalized through rapport building with games focused on building cancer screening knowledge. Results: 514 individuals were provided our cancer screening recommendation flyers as a resource. Household sizes were captured mid-way through 2024 with 894 household members affected through these outreach efforts. We provided PIPCHE-based giveaways through a Spin-the-Wheel game in which attendees were questioned about cancer screening recommendations including age groups and screening frequencies. A total of 221 individuals took part in the game with 88 answering the cancer screening questions correctly and 133 answering incorrectly. Conclusion: The PIPCHE’s COC has been able to reach NHPI though community partnerships facilitated by KKV to deliver culturally tailored cancer prevention education and efforts within Hawaiʻi. These efforts have begun to address the cancer burdens these populations face by raising awareness of cancer screenings recommendations and have laid a framework for continued community collaborations. Citation Format: Mark L. Willingham Jr., Kevin Cassel, Pearl Faimafili Sheck, Jane Teneza. Cancer outreach and community engagement through a collaboration with a federally qualified health center: Promoting cancer screening recommendations for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in Hawai'i abstract. In: Proceedings of the 18th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities; 2025 Sep 18-21; Baltimore, MD. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2025;34(9 Suppl):Abstract nr C121.
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