Tools & Resources

Healthy Public Policy

Community Development “How To” Guides

Assessment – What is the issue?

• Existing Data
  • Regional Health Authorities (Details)
  • Community Profiles (Details)
  • Canadian Population Health Initiative (Details)
  • Canadian Population Health Surveys (Details)
  • Cancer Surveillance On-Line (Details)
  • Chronic Disease Infobase (Details)
  • Community Health Assessments (Details)
    Brandon RHA 2004 Brandon RHA 2009
  • RHA - Central 2004 RHA - Central 2009
  • Churchill RHA 2004 Churchill RHA 2009
    Interlake RHA 2004 Interlake RHA 2010
    NOR-MAN RHA 2004 NOR-MAN RHA 2009-2010
    North Eastman Health Authority 2004 North Eastman Health Authority 2008-2009
    Parkland RHA 2004 Parkland RHA 2010
  • South Eastman Health/Santé Sud-Est 2004 South Eastman Health/Santé Sud-Est 2010
  • Winnipeg RHA 2004
  • Identification des problèmes et des besoins de santé perçus au sein de la communauté francophone du Manitoba (Details)
  • Identifying the Perceived Health Issues and Needs of Francophones in Manitoba (Details)
  • The Community Information Database (Details)
  • Early Development Instrument (EDI) Reports (Details)
  • health-evidence.ca(Details)
  • Health Reports (Details)
  • First Nations Regional Longitudinal Survey (Details)
  • Food and Nutrition Surveillance (Health Canada) (Details)
  • Manitoba in motion Survey (Details)
  • Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence
  • Provincial Youth Health Surveillance Data (Details)
  • Statistics Canada - Health (Details)
• Gathering Community Information
  • Resources

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

  • Tools

  • Community Health Survey Tool (IRHA) (Details)
  • Reported indicators worksheets (Details)
  • University of Queensland Life and Recreation Survey (Details)
  • Manitoba Youth Health Survey Questionnaire (Details)
• Understanding Health Indicators
  • APHEO List of Core Health Indicators & Resources (Details)
  • Community Health Factors (framework developed by Prevention Institute) (Details)
  • Health Equity and Social Justice Toolkit (Details)
  • What determines health? (Details)

Partnership – Who are we going to work with?

• Building Partnerships
  • Community Action Resources for Inuit, Métis and First Nations: Finding Resources (Details)
  • Community Benefits Agreements Handbook (Details)
  • Facility Joint Use Agreements Do's and Don'ts (Details)
  • Facility Joint Use Guidelines (Details)
  • Neighborhood Change Partners (Details)
  • Facility Joint Use Agreement Issues (Details)
  • Partner identification, consideration, characteristics, and implementation (Details)
  • The Partnership Handbook (Details)
• Identifying Partners
  • Aboriginal Organizations in Manitoba (Details)
  • CONTACT Community Information, Manitoba's Community Resource Data Warehouse (Details)
  • Manitoba Networks and Coalitions (Details)

Planning & Implementation – What are we going to do?

• Planning a Meeting
  • Facilitating Meetings with Community Groups (Details)
  • Meeting tools: Meeting planner form; Meeting agenda planning form; Detailed meeting agenda planning form; Minutes form (Details)
  • Meeting participation Self-checklist (Details)
  • Planning a Great Meeting (Details)
• Developing Leadership
  • Different Roles in Group Process & Tasks/Questions for Each Role (Details)
  • Leadership Skills Assessment Checklist (Details)
  • Mentoring Modules (Details)
  • Choosing the Most Appropriate Leadership Style (Details)
  • Volunteer Manitoba (Details)
• Planning
  • Creating a Non Profit Organization (Details)
  • Community Action Resources for Inuit, Métis and First Nations: Planning (Details)
  • Workplan worksheet (Details)
  • Action planning form (Details)
  • Developing goals and objectives worksheet (Details)
  • Logic Model (Details)
  • Solutions Matrix (Details)
  • Techsoup Canada (Details)
  • Watch Out for Health Planning Resource (Details)
• Considering the evidence
  • Best Practice Guidelines for Mental Health Promotion Programs: Children & Youth (Details)
  • Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (Details)
  • Canadian Best Practices Portal (Details)
  • Canadian Institute for Health Information (Details)
  • The Centre for Aboriginal Health Research (Details)
  • Communities Taking Action: Profiles of Health Equity (Details)
  • Heart & Stroke Position Statements (Details)
  • Knowledge Exchange Network (Canadian Cancer Society) (Details)
  • Lifestyle Information Network National Recreation Database (Details)
  • Lifting the Burden of Chronic Disease (Details)
  • Manitoba Health Population Report (Details)
  • National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (Details)
  • Program Evidence Tools (TEIP) (Details)
  • Pubget: the search engine for life-science PDFs (Details)
• Getting the word out
  • The Basics of Social Marketing (Details)
  • Breaking Through on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities (Details)
  • Creating a Great Website (Details)
  • A Guide to Writing in Plain Language (Details)
  • The Health Communication Unit, Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto (Details)
  • Making an Idea Worth Being Spread or Putting Words in People's Mouths (Details)
  • Sample Photo Release Form (Details)
  • Spreading Ideas (Details)
• Resolving Conflict
  • Conflict resolution worksheet (Details)
  • Group Effectiveness and Group Participant Checklists (Details)

Evaluation – How will we know if we did it?

• Building Evaluation Capacity
  • Learning about program evaluation
  • Evaluation Guidebook for Small Agencies (Details)
  • Online Program Evaluation Trainnig Module (Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health - Ontario)
  • Participatory Evaluation Essentials for Non-Profit Organizations and their Evaluation Partners (Details)
  • Program Development and Evaluation (University of Wisconsin Extension) (Details)
  • TEIP: Learning Module 3 - Planning for Successful Evaluation
  • Working Together: The Paloma-Wellesley Guide to Participatory Evaluation
  • Evaluation Organizations and Associations
  • American Evaluation Association
  • Canadian Evaluation Society
  • Manitoba Chapter - Canadian Evaluation Society
• Preparing to Evaluate
  • Ethics in Evaluation
  • American Evaluation Association - Guiding Principles Training Package
  • ARECCI - Ethics Screening Tool (Details)
  • ARECCI - Ethics Guidelines for Quality Improvement and Evaluation Projects (Details)
  • Guiding Principles for Evaluators - American Evaluation Association
  • Planning the Evaluation
  • American Evaluation Association - Guiding Principles Training Package
  • Guidelines for engaging evaluators (Details)
  • Planning a Program Evalution Guide - University of Wisconsin Extension
  • Program Evaluation Tool - Towards Evidence-Informed Practice
• Implementing the Evaluation
  • Collecting Data (methods and tools)
  • Community Capacity Building Tool (Public Health Agency of Canada) (Details)
  • Data collection worksheet (Details)
  • Partnership Self-Assessment Tool - Centre for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health
  • photovoice.org (Details)
  • A Practical Guide to Photovoice (Details)
  • Analyzing Quantitative Data
  • Analyzing Qualitative Data
  • Focus Group Guide - Ontario Women's Health Network
• Reporting, Dissemination, and Knowledge Exchange
• Evaluating
  • ARECCI Ethics Decision-Support Tools for Projects
  • Evaluation and Program Planning Capacity Survey Summary Report (Details)
  • Evaluation Guidebook for Small Agencies (Details)
  • Evaluation Plan Template (Details)
  • Evaluation Training Calendar (Details)
  • Guide to Project Evaluation: A Participatory Approach (Details)
  • Guidelines for engaging evaluators (Details)
  • Manitoba Evaluation Resources (Details)
  • Participatory Evaluation Essentials for Non-Profit Organizations and their Evaluation Partners (Details)
  • Program Development and Evaluation (University of Wisconsin Extension) (Details)
  • Sample Intermediate Outcome Indicators (Details)
  • Towards Evidence-Informed Practice (Details)

Program Resources

• Active Living
  • Girls Day (info: Interlake Regional Health Authority)
  • Green Commute (info: Resource Conservation Manitoba)
  • Manitoba Recreation Director's Handbook - A guide for recreation delivery in Aboriginal communities (info: Aboriginal and Northern Affairs)
  • School Travel Planning: Best Practice (info: Active and Safe Routes to School)
  • School Travel Plans: Review & Recommendations (info: Active and Safe Routes to School)
• Healthy Eating
  • Canteen Checklist (info: Healthy Brandon in motion)
  • Girls Day (info: Interlake Regional Health Authority)
  • Heart Smart Cooking Segments 2009 (info: Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba)
  • Making the Move to Healthy Choices (contact: )
  • What's In Your Lunch? (info: Healthy Brandon in motion)
  • Winnipeg Cooks Together (info: Winnipeg RHA 2004)
• Healthy Sexuality
  • Beyond the Basics: A sourcebook on sexual and reproductive health (info: Sexuality Education Resource Centre)
  • Do You Know What's In Your Drink? (info: Klinic Sexual Assault Crisis Program)
  • Finding Our Way: A sexual and reproductive health sourcebook for aboriginal communities (info: Sexuality Education Resource Centre)
  • Teen Clinic Services Manual (info: Healthy Child Manitoba)
  • Teen Clinic Volunteer Manual and Training Curriculum (info: Healthy Child Manitoba)
  • Toolkit for Service Providers/Educators (info: Teen Talk)
• Injury Prevention
  • Injury Prevention: A Review of Best Practices (info: Manitoba Healthy Living, Youth and Seniors)
• Mental Health
  • CMHA Mental Health Promotion Toolkit (info: Canadian Mental Health Association Manitoba)
• Substance Use
  • Do You Know What's In Your Drink? (info: Klinic Sexual Assault Crisis Program)
  • Learning from Each Other: Enhancing Community-Based Harm Reduction Programs and Practices in Canada (info: Manitoba Harm Reduction Network)
• Tobacco Cessation
  • Blue Light Project (info: Manitoba Lung Association)
  • N-O-T (Not on Tobacco) (info: Manitoba Lung Association)

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