The CAPTURE Project Fireside Chat Friday, November 18th, 2011 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Session Title: (Shared) Knowledge is Power! Subtitle: Introducing a FREE web-based platform to reflect upon and share our practice-based learnings of what works and how to strengthen local interventions. Brief Description: Imagine being part of a national community where you … Read the full post »
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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 »
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
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 »
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 »
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 »
When David got back from our recently held think tank presented as part of the 3rd Annual NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation we chatted about participant reactions to what our team presented. These post-event debriefs are useful from a communications standpoint since they help to determine whether or not people get … Read the full post »
In response to some feedback I recently received on one of my blogs, I have begun to think about their purpose. I view them as a way for us to chronicle our journey as we develop CAPTURE, share some of the thinking that frames our work, and invite others to offer suggestions that would help … Read the full post »
