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 »
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Be one of the first to try out CAPTURE and give us feedback! Post a summary of your interventions and help create a repository of Canadian chronic disease prevention programs and resources! Please contact: Dayna Albert Manager of Practitioner Engagement The CAPTURE Project dayna.albert@thecaptureproject.ca
I just got back from a great meeting with my friends at the Canadian Best Practices Initiative (CBPI) at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). PHAC is in the process of transforming its Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (CCDPC) and this meeting was an opportunity to see how the CBPI fit within … Read the full post »
The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer has received funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada to engage organizations working on chronic disease prevention in Canada’s Northern and Remote Regions through the Partnership’s Coalitions Linking Action and Science for Prevention (CLASP) initiative. The purpose of this engagement is to understand their evaluation needs and develop a … 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 »
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 »
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 are sponsoring a knowledge exchange forum to be held in Ottawa on March 29 and 30, 2010. This invitation only event will bring together approximately 50 participants from community-based … 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 »
In concert with our concept mapping excercise, The CAPTURE Project launched a first round of informant interviews focusing on opinion leaders and policy makers who work within knowledge to action processes in the chronic disease prevention realm. What we did Our goal in interviewing the 19 individuals was to understand how CAPTURE can complement or … 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 »
