As part of its platform development activities, The CAPTURE Project is continuing to consult with the public heath practice community in order to ensure the platform’s features and functionality are consistent with practitioner needs. This is why on December 15, 2009, The CAPTURE Project held a consultation with a large group of public health practitioners … Read the full post »

The CAPTURE Project has engaged the Towards Evidence-Informed Practice (TEIP) Project, a program of the Ontario Public Health Association, to learn about practitioners’ evaluation and evidence needs. Since 2005, TEIP has worked directly with health promotion practitioners and managers in delivering onsite evaluation and evidence-based practice workshops and follow-up support activities. To date, more than … Read the full post »

A few months ago, as we were going over the concept map clusters, I was introduced to a management model called “servant leadership”. The concept kept creeping up in team meetings and conversations. So before our fall consultative workshop, I did some quick online research to better understand its origins and how it has evolved … Read the full post »

I’m just back from too much travel and trying to clear up the email back-log. Seems a common theme among many of my colleagues these days……but I just watched the latest CAPTURE video and I’m all excited again about this challenge we have taken on, trying to build a system which will help us understand … Read the full post »

This past October, CAPTURE held a consultative workshop in Vancouver, British Columbia as a final step in its early planning and consultation phase. The workshop sought to obtain feedback on the design of the CAPTURE web-based platform and supportive system infrastructure and to develop relationships with key organizations and individuals who may use, build or … Read the full post »

Following the CAPTURE consultation at the National Collaborating Centre’s Summer Institute in July 2009, it was decided that we needed more input from the practitioner community to ensure the platform is designed in such a way that it works for its intended users. To supplement information gathered from a first series of key informant interviews … Read the full post »

When I joined The CAPTURE Project a few months ago, my colleague David pressed me to think of creating a CAPTURE blog as part of our communications strategy. I must confess that I was not sold on the idea initially. Thinking that the hype over blogs was overblown I preferred considering more traditional forms of … Read the full post »

A small group of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners from different areas in public health gathered on the evening of July 6, 2009, for The CAPTURE Project working-dinner session held in conjunction with the National Collaborating Centers’ Summer Institute. Our purpose with this consultation activity was to build awareness about The CAPTURE Project and share our … Read the full post »

In March 2009, The CAPTURE Project launched a concept mapping exercise as part of its initial engagement activities to obtain feedback from the chronic disease prevention community on the nature, elements and eventual design of the CAPTURE platform. What we did Using concept mapping methodology, we asked stakeholders to complete the following statement: “An element … Read the full post »

The CAPTURE Project is a highly collaborative initiative, drawing on the expertise and experiences of a broad range of chronic disease prevention stakeholders. We have been in consultations for a few months now and plan to wrap things up at a workshop this fall. We sought initial guidance for the project from an expert panel … Read the full post »