Tools

Table of Contents

• Healthy Public Policy
• Community Development “How To” Guides
• Assessment – What is the issue?
• • Gathering Community Information
  • Understanding Health Indicators
• Partnership – Who are we going to work with?
• • Building Partnerships
  • Identifying Partners
• Planning & Implementation – What are we going to do?
• • Planning a Meeting
  • Developing Leadership
  • Planning
  • Considering the Evidence
  • Getting the Word Out
  • Resolving Conflict
• Evaluation – How will we know if we did it?
• • Building Evaluation Capacity
  • Preparing to Evaluate
  • Implementing the Evaluation
  • • Collecting Data
    • Analyzing Data
    • Reporting

Healthy Public Policy

A Guide to Community Health Impact Assessment
Faits saillants sur l’évaluation d’impact sur la santé
Health Impact Assessment Fact Sheet
Health Impact Assessment Guides and Tools
Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention

Community Development “How To” Guides

Community Action Resources for Inuit, Métis and First Nations: Making it Happen
Community Action Resources for Inuit, Métis and First Nations: Toolbox
The Community Development Handbook
Community Economic Development Pathfinder *
The Citizen’s Handbook: A guide to building community

Assessment – What is the issue?

Gathering Community Information

Resources

Beyond Economic Survival: 97 Ways Small Communities Can Thrive
Community Action Resources for Inuit, Métis and First Nations: Assessing Needs
Conducting Focus Groups
Key Informant Interviews
OCAP: First Nations Right to Govern First Nations Data
PATHways II: The Next Steps. A Guide to Community Health Assessment

Tools

Community Food Assessment Guide
Community Health Survey Tool (IRHA)
Health Assessment Tool for Schools (HATS)
Reported indicators worksheets
University of Queensland Life and Recreation Survey
Manitoba Youth Health Survey Questionnaire

Understanding Health Indicators

APHEO List of Core Health Indicators & Resources
Community Health Factors (framework developed by Prevention Institute)
Health Equity and Social Justice Toolkit
What determines health?

Partnership – Who are we going to work with?

Building Partnerships

Community Action Resources for Inuit, Métis and First Nations: Finding Resources
Community Benefits Agreements Handbook
Facility Joint Use Agreements Do’s and Don’ts
Facility Joint Use Guidelines
Neighborhood Change Partners
Facility Joint Use Agreement Issues
Partner identification, consideration, characteristics, and implementation
The Partnership Handbook *

Identifying Partners

Aboriginal Organizations in Manitoba
CONTACT Community Information, Manitoba’s Community Resource Data Warehouse
Manitoba Networks and Coalitions

Planning & Implementation – What are we going to do?

Planning a Meeting

Facilitating Meetings with Community Groups
Meeting tools: Meeting planner form; Meeting agenda planning form; Detailed meeting agenda planning form; Minutes form
Meeting participation Self-checklist
Planning a Great Meeting

Developing Leadership

Different Roles in Group Process & Tasks/Questions for Each Role
Leadership Skills Assessment Checklist
Mentoring Modules
Choosing the Most Appropriate Leadership Style
Volunteer Manitoba

Planning

Creating a Non Profit Organization
Community Action Resources for Inuit, Métis and First Nations: Planning
Workplan worksheet
Action planning form
Developing goals and objectives worksheet
Logic Model
Solutions Matrix
Techsoup Canada
Watch Out for Health Planning Resource

Considering the evidence

Best Practice Guidelines for Mental Health Promotion Programs: Children & Youth
Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
Canadian Best Practices Portal
Canadian Institute for Health Information
The Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
Communities Taking Action: Profiles of Health Equity
Heart & Stroke Position Statements
Knowledge Exchange Network (Canadian Cancer Society)
Lifestyle Information Network National Recreation Database
Lifting the Burden of Chronic Disease
Manitoba Health Population Report
National Collaborating Centres for Public Health
Program Evidence Tools (TEIP)
Pubget: the search engine for life-science PDFs

Getting the word out

The Basics of Social Marketing
Breaking Through on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities
Creating a Great Website
A Guide to Writing in Plain Language
The Health Communication Unit, Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto
Making an Idea Worth Being Spread or Putting Words in People’s Mouths
Sample Photo Release Form
Spreading Ideas

Resolving Conflict

Conflict resolution worksheet
Group Effectiveness and Group Participant Checklists

Evaluation – How will we know if we did it?

Building Evaluation Capacity

TEIP On-line Evaluation Learning Module
Manitoba Evaluation Training Calendar
Participatory Evaluation Essentials
Program Development and Evaluation

Preparing to Evaluate

THCU Logic Model Workbook
UWEX Planning an Evaluation Worksheet
Template for creating an Evaluation Framework
ARRECI ethics guidelines
How to Contract an Evaluator (coming soon)

Implementing the Evaluation

Collecting Data

Collecting Evaluation Data: An overview
Focus Group Guide
Questionnaire Design
Photovoice
Fluidsurveys

Analyzing Data

Wordle
Analyzing Quantitative Data
Using Excel for Analyzing Survey Data
Analyzing Qualitative Data

Reporting

Using Graphics to report results
Prezi
Reporting worksheet (coming soon)
Outline of an evaluation report (coming soon)