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Toolkits, Evaluation, Dissemination

Toolkits

Community Engagement in Research: Precision Outreach and Planning

The CERPOP tool is intended for use by academic research teams who are new to community-engaged research and plan to conduct outreach within communities. Research teams should use this tool, in collaboration with community partners, to customize their outreach strategy based on a community’s needs and preferences.

Society for

Public Health

Education

SOPHE’s Health Equity & Anti-Racism Task Force developed the following resources for SOPHE members, chapters, stakeholders, and other community-based organizations to use in their work.

Racial Equity Toolkit:

An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity

Racial equity tools are designed to integrate explicit consideration of racial equity in decisions, including policies, practices, programs, and budgets. Use of a racial equity tool can help to develop strategies and actions that reduce racial inequities and improve success for all groups.

Patient and Community Engagement Resources, NIH

HEAL seeks effective engagement of people with lived experience in research. Effective engagement can help achieve health equity by building trust and respecting cultural traditions.

Community Engagement Resource Guide, NLM

This guide is intended to assist those who are interested in conducting health information outreach through community engagement.

AAFP Health Equity Curricular Toolkit

The Health Equity Curricular Toolkit provides a structured curricular tool to facilitate exploration of some of the most pressing questions around social determinants of health, vulnerable populations, and economics and policy. The toolkit also provides resources to promote skill-building to confront drivers of persistent and pervasive inequities.

Equity of Care:

A Toolkit for Eliminating Health Care Disparities

This American Hospital Association (AHA) toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care disparities and ensure hospital leadership reflects the communities they serve.

The Community Tool Box:

Using Community Sectors to Reach Targets and Agents of Change

Learn how to use different sectors based on common social, political, economic, cultural, or religious interests to help you reach Targets and Agents of Change.

Community Health

Improvement Navigator

The CDC Community Health Improvement Navigator (CHI Navigator) is a website for people who lead or participate in CHI work within hospitals and health systems, public health agencies, and other community organizations.

Engage

for Equity

The CBPR model and tools were created by multiple partners who share a collective vision for multi-year community engaged (CenR) and community based participatory research (CBPR) in advancing health equity.

Faith and Health Toolkit

This toolkit features resources that can help unlock the positive potential of religious diversity in health-related settings. The materials featured here have been created or curated by Interfaith America and our Faith & Health partners.

Evaluation

Evaluation Trainings, Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities

ARCC has partnered with Sarah Welch, ARCC Steering Committee Member and Evaluation Director for Northwestern’s Buehler Center for Health Policy & Economics to offer a series of evaluation trainings.

Measure What Matters, PCORI

Measurement tools, including questionnaires and surveys, are intended to collect info about engagement in standardized ways, which are reproducible and have been shown to capture what they claim to measure (known as reliability and validity in scientific literature).

Introduction to Measuring your Impact, Candid Learning

This course will prepare you to:

Draft SMART objectives for a program
Identify the parts of a logic model
Report the impact on your Candid profile

How to Create a Program Evaluation for Your Non-Profit, Coursera

Learn the basics about program evaluation for non-profits.
Learn how to complete a Logic Model, how to create SMART goals, and how to write good evaluation questions.

Dissemination

Methods of Dissemination for Community Health Programs, Rural Health Information Hub

After identifying the dissemination objective and intended audiences, rural communities can share content in various ways. Regular and ongoing contact with program partners and community members within the service area can support message dissemination.

Engage For Equity Agreements for Data Sharing, Ownership, Authorship and Dissemination Guidelines, University of New Mexico

This Agreement emphasizes Engage for Equity's core goals of promoting health equity and contributing to the knowledge and science of partnering practices in Community-Based Participatory Research and Community Engaged Research.

Measuring Community Engagement, National Academy of Medicine

Twenty-eight Instruments were identified to support assessing community engagement. These can be used to measure various domains and indicators in the Conceptual Model.

Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication, CDC

To achieve health equity, it will require a great deal of focus and societal efforts to resolve historical and contemporary injustices. CDC's Health Equity Guiding Principles can help public health professionals adapt communication strategies where needed.

Evaluation Reporting: A Guide to Help Ensure Use of Evaluation Findings, CDC

The Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) evaluation guides are a series of evaluation technical assistance tools developed for use by CDC-funded programs. State health departments, tribal organizations, communities, and partners working in a variety of public health areas may also find these tools helpful.

Phase 6:

Communication and Dissemination, CDC

Use traditional and non-traditional (e.g., social marketing techniques and social media platforms) methods of communication to present your results and encourage people with disabilities to take advantage of the new resources in your community.

Check out CDC's tools, templates, and training for all things health communication.

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