Culture Counts: A Guide to Best Practices for Developing Health Promotion Initiatives in Mental Health and Substance Use with
Ethnocultural Communities
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- Community Readiness
- Evaluation
- Needs Assessment
- Partnerships
- Project Planning/Management/Organization
- Translation and Plain Language
- Title: Community Readiness Assessment Tools
- Author: Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies
- Web Host: CAPTUS
- Country: USA
- Format: HTML
- Description: These two surveys are intended to be used for assessing community readiness for prevention programs but can be
adapted for other situations.
- Title: Take Our Community's Asset Mapping Test
- Author: RECA (Realizing Every Community Asset) Foundation
- Web Host: The Columbia Free-Net
- Country: USA
- Format: HTML
- Description: Online checklists for taking inventories of individual and community assets.
- Title: Guide to Project Evaluation: A Participatory Approach
- Author: Donna Denham and Joan Gillespie
- Web Host: Public Health Agency of Canada
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML; also available in French
- Description: This guide includes “a framework to guide the step-by-step process of developing effective evaluations; activities
to introduce and plan for project evaluation; examples demonstrating the application of the evaluation framework to health
promotion projects.”
- Title: EVAL--Evaluation made Very easy, Accessible, and Logical
- Author: K. Farrell et al.
- Web Host: Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health
- Country: Nova Scotia, Canada
- Format: PDF
- Description: “Includes a brief outline of how to do a needs assessment; four evaluation frameworks; and guidance for disseminating
your findings.”
- Title: Using Stories in Evaluation
- Author: Center for Collaborative Planning
- Web Host: Center for Collaborative Planning
- Country: USA
- Format: PDF
- Description: The value of including community stories in evaluations and ways to do it.
- Title: SurveyMonkey.com
- Author: Survey Monkey
- Web Host: Survey Monkey
- Country: USA
- Format: HTML
- Description: Create an online survey quickly and easily. The free version allows you to ask up to 10 questions per survey.
- Title: Café to Go
- Web Host: The World Café
- Country: USA
- Format: PDF
- Description: Use a café format to encourage informal discussion.
- Title: Dotmocracy
- Author: Jason Diceman
- Web Host: Co-op Tools
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML/PDF
- Description: “[An] equal opportunity & participatory group decision-making process.”
- Title: Finding Canadian Statistics
- Author: University of Toronto Data Library Service
- Web Host: University of Toronto
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML
- Description: List of sources of Canadian statistics.
- Title: Statistics Canada
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML/PDF; English/French
- Description: Main source of statistics on the Canadian population.
- Title: Research Methods Knowledge Base
- Author: W.M.K. Trochim
- Web Host: Web Center for Social Research Methods
- Country: USA
- Format: HTML
- Description: An introduction to social research methods written in a conversational style.
- Title: The Partnership Handbook
- Author(s): Flo Frank and Anne Smith
- Web Host: Human Resources Development Canada
- Country: Canada
- Format(s): MS Word document, PDF
- Description: Handbook “to help people learn more about what community-based partnerships are and to offer suggestions about
how to be effective in them.”
- Title: Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships
- Author: The Examining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group
- Web Host: University of Washington
- Country: USA
- Format: HTML
- Description: This self-directed tutorial relates to developing community-based partnerships for research, but much of the
advice could be applied to partnerships for health promotion as well.
- Title: Building Strong and Effective Community Partnerships
- Author: Sharon Skage
- Web Host: National Adult Literacy Database
- Country: Alberta, Canada
- Format: HTML
- Description: This guide is aimed at creating family literacy programs but much of the information could apply to forming and
maintaining community-based partnerships for health promotion projects.
- Title: Building Partnerships to End Violence Against Women
- Author: Community Coordination for Women’s Safety Project Team
- Web Host: BC Association of Specialized Victim Assistance and Counselling Programs (BCASVACP)
- Country: British Columbia, Canada
- Format: PDF
- Description: This guide is based on the issue of violence against women, but many chapters could be applied to any community-based
partnership.
- Title: Pink Book: Making Health Communication Programs Work
- Author: National Cancer Institute
- Web Host: National Cancer Institute
- Country: USA
- Format: HTML; also may purchased on CD.
- Description: Step-by-step guide for planning and producing a health communications program.
- Title: Involving the Community—A Guide to Participatory Development Communication
- Author: Guy Bessette
- Web Host: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML, PDF; also available in French
- Description: This guide is directed at those involved in international development research projects, but much of the advice
could apply to local community-based projects. See especially chapter on “Tools.”
- Title: URP Toolbox
- Author: Urban Research Program, Griffin University, Brisbane, Australia
- Web Host: Urban Research Program, Griffin University, Brisbane, Australia
- Country: Australia
- Format: HTML
- Description: Describes strengths and weaknesses of numerous “community involvement tools,” along with case studies of their
use.
- Title: “Ground Rules and Agreements”; “Making Meetings Work”
- Author: Center for Collaborative Planning, Public Health Institute
- Web Host: Center for Collaborative Planning, Public Health Institute
- Country: USA
- Format: PDF
- Description: Quick guides to using agreements for smoother working relationships and running effective meetings.
- Title: Action planning
- Author: CIVICUS
- Web Host: CIVICUS (World Alliance for Citizen Participation):
- Country: South Africa
- Format: MS Word document
- Description: A step-by-step guide to creating an action plan/work plan.
- Title: Basic Facilitation Skills
- Author: International Association of Facilitators, et al.
- Web Host: International Association of Facilitators
- Country: USA
- Format: PDF
- Description: A basic introduction to group facilitation skills—creating an agenda, establishing ground rules, keeping meetings
on track, taking minutes.
- Title: Plain Language Association International
- Author: Various
- Web Host: Plain Language Network
- Country: Canada (and others)
- Format: HTML
- Description: This site is full of resources for learning how to use plain language, including the beginners’ tutorial, Plain
Train.
- Title: The Health Literacy Style Manual
- Author: Penny Lane, et al.
- Web Host: Covering Kids & Families National Program Office, Southern Institute on Children and Families. Country: USA
- Format: PDF
- Description: Advice on planning, writing and translating health education materials that are easy to understand and use.
- Title: ITC SIG Translation Reader
- Author: Various
- Web Host: Society for Technical Communication
- Country: USA
- Format: PDF
- Description: A collection of articles on various aspects of translation, e.g., how to proofread a translation; hiring a translator;
producing a source document that is easier to translate.
- Title: Translation: Getting It Right
- Author: American Translators Association
- Web Host: American Translators Association
- Country: USA
- Format: PDF
- Description: Tips on preparing a document for translation and hiring a translator.
- Title: Written Materials in Other Languages
- Author: Diversity Rx
- Web Host: Diversity Rx
- Country: USA
- Format: HTML
- Description: Overview of some of the pitfalls of translating health information and recommendations for improving multilingual
health information.
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