The CAPTURE Project is pleased to announce that Dayna Albert has recently joined us as Manager, Practitioner Engagement. Dayna comes to CAPTURE from the Ontario Public Health Association where she was instrumental in developing the Towards Evidence-Informed Practice (TEIP) program. Dayna will continue to work on a part-time basis for TEIP and will also work … Read the full post »
What is CAPTURE?
The CAPTURE Project will revolutionize how chronic disease prevention practitioners and program managers learn from what they do.
We are building a web-based evaluation platform to help them understand what works in their community and under what context. More info »
Public health student joins CAPTURE for summer practicum
The CAPTURE Project is pleased to welcome Shaylyn Streatch for a twelve week summer practicum. Shaylyn is currently completing a Masters in Public Health, specializing in health promotion, at the University of Toronto. Shaylyn is passionate about the principles and strategies of health promotion. She has a broad range of interests such as strengthening chronic … Read the full post »
Dare we share what didn’t work?
What do practitioners want to learn from their colleagues’ experiences? What are those real-world lessons that can be used to strengthen local interventions and policies? This spring, The CAPTURE Project raised the question in a pilot needs assessment conducted in Ontario. One of the most surprising findings was that practitioners wanted to learn about their … Read the full post »
Survey will be available soon
The CAPTURE Evaluation Needs Assessment Survey will be available in English as of Monday, June 21, 2010. Please visit our website as of this date to participate. For those of you interested in taking the survey in French, please note that it will be posted in the week of June 28, 2010. Thank you for … Read the full post »
Report on the inaugural IAB meeting
On April 12 and 13, 2010, CAPTURE held its inaugural International Advisory Board (IAB) meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. The meeting was attended by 10 members of the 15 member advisory board. The objectives of the meeting were to familiarize the IAB with The CAPTURE Project and its progress to date; share CAPTURE’s plans for … Read the full post »
Shared learning through chance or by design?
I attended a meeting recently where I learned about a new smoking cessation intervention in my own community that really piqued my interest. It was innovative, linking cessation with physical activity and social support. And uptake is growing. Had I not been at this meeting I probably wouldn’t ever have known about it. Lucky I … Read the full post »
Cyberspace and relationships
Can an evaluation platform support the relationship building that is key to doing good evaluations? The fit between my job of helping to build a web-based evaluation platform and my preference for participatory evaluation techniques had been niggling at me for some time now. This niggling recently became demanding in response to the discussions generated … Read the full post »
Summary of initial consultations and information gathering
The first year of The CAPTURE Project was spent gathering information from a variety of chronic disease prevention informants including public health practitioners, evaluators, public health decision-makers, and public health and intervention researchers. Close to 500 participants were involved. A number of different consultations and information gathering activities were undertaken and are summarized in this … Read the full post »
Think tank attendees give feedback on reflective practice
The CAPTURE Project recently hosted a think tank entitled “How can we CAPTURE practice-based evidence?” as part of the 3rd Annual NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation. The purpose of this think tank was to provide an overview of The CAPTURE Project and solicit feedback on one of its proposed features – reflective … Read the full post »
Systems Thinking and Evaluation
I am beginning to think “going to meetings” is my drug of choice! Here I am, yet again on an airplane heading home from another really exciting meeting that has my mind going in all sorts of directions. In this case, The CAPTURE Project partnered with Kerry Robinson and her crew in the Knowledge Development … Read the full post »
