The Chosen Community

Discuss about the Working with Community for Cancer Council of Victoria.

The chosen community is the Cancer Council Victoria.

The Cancer Council Victoria is chosen in that it contributes in serving the needs concerning the understanding of the lifestyle and nutritional elements that are required to be incorporated for countering the incidence of cancer. Similarly, researching on the above community would also help in designing of coaching programs for nurses regarding dealing with cancer patients and thereby in motivating them to live a better life (Cancer Council Victoria, 2017).

Cancer Council Victoria focuses on reducing the level of impact of cancer on different individuals.

Cancer Council of Victoria has gained international reputation owing to the development of its potential for conducting research, prevention and also supports activities for reducing the impact of different types of cancer on different individuals. It also focuses on empowering communities for reducing the level of inequities concerning dealing with cancer (Cancer Council Victoria, 2017).

Cause of the Challenge

The first challenge is associated with the designing of fundraising activities and programs for sourcing funds to counter different types of cancer. It thus requires identification of potential stakeholders like cancer survivors, celebrities, clubs and other volunteers and also designing of quality programs for helping patients suffering from cancer (Cancer Council Victoria, 2017).

Nature of the Cause

The nature of the challenge is identified to be economic such that it focuses on understanding and evaluating the financial needs for sourcing of necessary funds for fighting of different types of cancer (Cancer Council Victoria, 2017).

Cause of the Challenge

The second challenge is associated with requiring the tobacco companies for rendering detailed package highlighting health problems concerning the consumption of tobacco in terms of cigarettes, tobacco powder and other like products. The generation of warning labels are required to be generated for reducing the chances of misuse of tobacco products (Cancer Council Victoria , 2016).

Nature of the Cause

The nature of the cause is identified to be social such that it aims on governing consumer behaviour regarding purchasing of tobacco products. Effective labelling is required to be provided for generating needed awareness concerning association of tobacco product consumption with oral cancer (Cancer Council Victoria , 2016).

Cause of the Challenge

The third challenge is associated with the existence of cultural diverse groups in Australia. It is observed that around 22 percent of the patients suffering from cancer belong to non-English speaking nationalities. Members of culturally and linguistic communities face problems concerning language and also from lack of knowledge concerning health system of Australia to both prevent and diagnose cancer (Cancer Council Victoria , 2017).

Community Interest in Professional Capacity

Nature of the Cause

The nature of the above cause is identified to be social owing to the identification of problems concerning culturally and linguistically diverse communities residing in Australia in understanding the mode of diagnosing and preventing cancer (Cancer Council Victoria , 2017).

The first goal is associated with the development of effective and potential fund raising programs and also with involvement and empowering of different stakeholder groups concerning cancer survivors, celebrities and other local volunteers for designing of merchandises and selling of such to gather funds.

The goal for the sourcing of potential funds through involvement of different stakeholders for designing of fund raising programs would ideally help in meeting the challenge concerned with lack of proper funds for fighting cancer.

Significant amount of funds are required to generate and sustain a fight against cancer. The same requires the development of fund raising programs to help source needed funds for helping cancer patients (Xu et al., 2014).

The second goal is associated with encouraging and governing tobacco companies for rendering detailed packaging reflecting the incidence of oral cancer with increased consumption of such.

Encouraging and monitoring of detailed labelling and packaging on tobacco products and raising voices for such would help in reducing the chances of misuse concerning same and thereby would help in countering cancer.

Effective labelling of tobacco products concerning development of a smoke-free environment and also reducing presence of passive smokers can help in promoting a reduction in tobacco consumption (Miller, 2012).

The goal is to generate needed awareness and educating the common masses belonging to different cultural and linguistic communities regarding the diagnosis, prevention and cure of different types of cancer.

The meeting of the goal would help the people belonging to different cultural and linguistic backgrounds to get first hand information concerning diagnosing and also preventing the emergence of cancer.

Effective communication is required to be carried out for training and coaching of individuals belonging to diverse cultural and linguistic communities to fight cancer (Parks et al., 2017).

Needs based on Goal 1

• Need for identification of effective donor population
• Need for recruitment of effective volunteers and in coaching them the objectives of fundraising and tactics needed to be undertaken.
• Development of communication for generating awareness about the fundraising event through public relations and incorporation of social networking platforms.
• Generation of merchandises and in designing fundraising programs by surveying of population and in identification of potential regions(Gupta et al., 2014).

Needs based on Goal 2

• Need for tobacco companies to publish advertisements for rendering a smoke-free environment.
• Need for tobacco companies to reflect the harmful impacts of tobacco on family and social life.
• Need for tobacco companies to highlight on packs showing incidence of oral cancer on increased consumption of cigarettes and the like(Velicer et al., 2014).

Needs based on Goal 3

• Designing of effective communication programs in English and also in other vernaculars.
• Communicating with the masses through the use of print, broadcasting, digital or web and also through use of social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter and thereby educating them on cancer and the different health facilities available.
• Distribution of leaflets in different languages to the public of diverse communities for generating information on cancer.
• Surveying of the sample population for evaluating the level of understanding.
• Encouraging people to communicate through the use of videoconferencing and also with local agents for gaining proper access to health, finance and other support facilities(Simon et al., 2014).

Pertinence of Need 1 to Challenge

The need for identification of potential donor population along with effective volunteers with also the development of effective communication for cultivating needed awareness would help in drawing necessary funds for generating needed care to cancer patients.

Pertinence of Need 2 to Challenge

Encouraging, promoting and also monitoring the actions of the tobacco companies concerning the publication of advertisements and public relation information through use of different types of media would help in restricting the undue growth of tobacco consumption in the region. Generation of effective labelling for creation of a smoke-free environment would help in reducing of passive smokers and thereby in restricting lung cancer.

Pertinence of Need 3 to Challenge

Generation of effective communication through use of different communication channels and also coaching the people belonging to different linguistic and cultural fronts would help in creation of needed awareness regarding cancer and also the existence of different facilities and support. This would help the people in availing needed support for fighting with the disease.

• Effective communication skills
• Team working and organising
• Budgeting skills
• Skills for motivating others
• Convincing and sales skills(Cancer Council Victoria, 2017).

• Effective presentation skills
• Convincing skills
• Monitoring skills
• Communication skills (Cancer Council Victoria, 2017).

• Communication and interactive skills
• Language skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Empathy
• Public Relation and promotion skills
• Motivation skills
• Organising and team working (Cancer Council Victoria , 2017).

Conclusion

The different needs are identified associated with the different goals associated with development of a fundraising activity, needing tobacco companies for generating detailed labels and finally regarding educating people pertaining to different cultures and languages about cancer and health facilities, systems and support available.

The fundraising needs are identified owing to lack of proper funds for addressing the support needs of cancer patients. Labelling needs of tobacco companies are identified owing to growth of passive smoking and need for a smoke-free environment. Finally, the existence of people belonging to different cultures and languages requires the development of coaching and mentoring programs.

• Financing and funding needs—–Development of Fundraising Events
• Labelling needs———————Promoting and monitoring of labelling standards
• Generating awareness for cancer among linguistic and cultural communities——Development of coaching and mentoring programs.

References

Cancer Council Victoria , 2016. Domestic challenge to plain packaging: High Court of Australia finds plain packaging constitutional. [Online] Available at: https://www.mccabecentre.org/focus-areas/tobacco/domestic-challenge-to-plain-packaging [Accessed 22 September 2017].

Cancer Council Victoria , 2017. Culturally diverse communitiies. [Online] Available at: https://www.cancervic.org.au/about/culturally-linguistally-diverse-communities [Accessed 22 September 2017].

Cancer Council Victoria, 2017. Fundraise. [Online] Available at: https://www.cancervic.org.au/how-you-can-help/fundraise [Accessed 22 September 2017].

Cancer Council Victoria, 2017. Healthy Living after Cancer. [Online] Available at: https://www.cancervic.org.au/how-we-can-help/healthy-living-after-cancer [Accessed 22 September 2017].

Cancer Council Victoria, 2017. Whaty We Do. [Online] Available at: https://www.cancervic.org.au/about/strategic-plan [Accessed 22 September 2017].

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