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 »
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 »
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 »
Practitioners and program managers are often treated as if they exist in a knowledge desert where, if only we could get them some life sustaining knowledge resources, they might finally be able to thrive. It seems to me that things are more like a swamp. The advent of the internet and the tremendous leaps forward … 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 »
As I write this blog, David, Marla and I are all on a flight back from the 3rd Annual NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation and my head is spinning! We went because we were given the opportunity to host a think tank titled “How can we CAPTURE practice-based evidence?” We thought … Read the full post »
We are in the process of creating some CommonCraft style videos. Part of this process has been to develop a creative brief for the video production company that tells them who we are. They asked questions like: What does your organization do? Who is the audience of your video? What is the problem you are … 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 »
