Coping with Cancer in the Kitchen (CCK) was developed by the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) as an eight-week, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, health behavior change intervention for post-treatment cancer survivors. CCK has three components: nutrition education, psychosocial wellness and culinary demonstrations. AICR and its partners used the results from a series of community-based pilot studies to make informed data- and process-driven decisions about how to approach scaling up from local pilot studies to a nationwide programs. But things don’t always go as planned, so this presentation will provide a sneak peek into the wins, setbacks, and real-life nuts and bolts of this work.

Objectives:

• Participants will be able to describe the nature of the data and approach that are important to scale a health behavior change intervention from the pilot phase to the program phase for broad uptake in interested communities.
• Participants will be able to recommend the kinds of data, planning, steps and pivots needed to support the methodical transition of an intervention from pilot to program phase, and everything in between.

For more information on the American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR), visit www.aicr.org