CAPTURE is receiving a great deal of interest from Canada’s primary prevention community for a report we recently released about practical suggestions for improving program evaluation in Northern, rural and Aboriginal communities. Sage Advice: Real-World Approaches to Program Evaluation in Northern, rural and Aboriginal Communities documents the results of an online survey completed by more … Read the full post »
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With funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, CAPTURE embarked on a project to understand and support the evaluation needs of organizations working with northern, remote and Aboriginal communities. Reciprocal Consulting (Dr. Kim van der Woerd, Billy Joe Rogers, Kylee Swift, and Samantha Tsuruda) was engaged … Read the full post »
Purpose and Objectives of the Needs Assessment This report is an extension of the pilot needs assessment conducted in the spring of 2010 among chronic disease prevention practitioners and evaluators in Ontario. As before, the main purpose is to understand the perspectives of practitioners, evaluators and managers who work in chronic disease prevention programming, policy … Read the full post »
By: Dayna Albert and Marla Steinberg What we did In the spring of 2010, CAPTURE posed the following questions to 32 chronic disease prevention practitioners and managers in Ontario who were participating in CAPTURE focus groups: What are the challenges and barriers to sharing ‘lessons learned’ about health promotion programming? What would make it easier … Read the full post »
Learnings from the CAPTURE National Evaluation Needs Assessment By: Dayna Albert and Marla Steinberg What we did In the spring and summer of 2010 over 200 health promotion and chronic disease prevention practitioners, managers and evaluators responded to an on-line survey on evaluation and evidence needs. What we learned Respondents were asked to rate the … Read the full post »
What we did The CAPTURE Project, the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact and the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control at the Public Health Agency of Canada held a Knowledge Exchange Forum in Ottawa on March 29 – 30, 2010. The Forum addressed how to advance the documentation, sharing and use of evaluation … Read the full post »
Learnings from the CAPTURE National Evaluation Needs Assessment By: Dayna Albert and Marla Steinberg What we did In the spring and summer of 2010, CAPTURE received over 200 responses to an on-line survey targeting health promotion and chronic disease prevention practitioners, evaluators, and managers from across Canada about their evidence and evaluation needs. What we … Read the full post »
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 »
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 »
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 »
