Colorado Colorectal Screening Program Funding Announcement

Dear Partners,
It is with great pleasure that we can send this note to you announcing that the Colorado Colorectal Screening Program has successfully competed for funding for a three year grant that allows us to substantially restore activities of the Program. We have received a 2.86 million dollar award for 9 months, starting October 2012 to support endoscopic screening, including some treatment and navigation support, as well as, additional activities in systems change to support the use of high sensitivity fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) for colorectal cancer screening, and to start improving our partnerships with other chronic disease prevention programs.
Contingent on the state budget, we will receive $3.82 million in each of the following two years. While this doesn't meet our previous funding levels, it is a step in the right direction to provide this important cancer screening for medically underserved Coloradans. Please share the good news with your screening and treatment providers!
The Program will holding a series of conference calls in early September with the details about the grant and will be contacting clinics directly regarding the allocations of screens and participation in FOBT systems changes. The Program will be contacting you and your service partners in the next few weeks to execute new memorandums of understanding for this Fiscal Year 2013 grant. We plan to make these contracts for the 3 year grant period from October 1, 2012 to June 30, 2015.
Thank you for your continued partnership and effort to help us provide endoscopic screens to about 1850 people by the end of May 2013. 

Best regards,
Holly and the Coordinating Center team




Holly Wolf, PhD, MSPH
Program Director
Colorado Colorectal Screening Program
University of Colorado Cancer Center