Mission Statement and Goals

The mission of the Carolina Community Network (CCN) is to reduce prostate, breast and colorectal cancer disparities among adult African Americans by leveraging long-standing university-community relationships and the community-based participatory research expertise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to enhance and extend cancer education and research, research training, and cancer health policy in both secular and faith-based communities.

The long-term goals of the Carolina Community Network are to:

• Improve utilization of beneficial cancer interventions
   
• Increase the number of minorities in clinical trials and other forms of research
   
• Strengthen the community’s knowledge of cancer disparities and treatment
   
• Impact cancer prevention and control policies