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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- Title: The Community Development Handbook: A Tool to Build Community Capacity
- Author: Flo Frank and Anne Smith
- Web Host: Government of Canada Publications
- Country: Canada
- Format: PDF; also available in French
- Description: This handbook’s focus is community economic development, but many of the processes and “points to ponder” could
apply to other community-based initiatives in which building community capacity part of the goal.
- Title: HP-101: Health Promotion On-line Course
- Author: Brian Hyndman, et al.
- Web Host: Ontario Health Promotion Resource System
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML, PDF; also available in French
- Description: A self-guided tutorial introducing the basics of health promotion.
- Title: Mental Health Promotion Tool Kit
- Author: Catherine Willinsky
- Web Host: Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML, PDF; also available in French
- Description: A step-by-step guide to developing and running a mental health promotion initiative.
- Title: Introduction to Population Health
- Author: Canadian Population Health Initiative
- Web Host: Canadian Institute for Health Information
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML
- Description: Self-directed tutorial introducing population health and the social determinants of health.
- Title: Health Promotion Resources
- Author: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
- Web Host: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML
- Description: Overview of the development of health promotion; definitions of key terms; links to other health promotion resources.
- Title: The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
- Author: International Conference on Health Promotion, November 17-21, 1986
- Web Host: Public Health Agency of Canada – Population Health
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML
- Description: Charter produced as an outcome of the International Conference on Health Promotion, held on November 17-21, 1986,
in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Title: Primer to Action: Social Determinants of Health
- Author: Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse, Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance and the Canadian Cancer Society – Ontario
Division
- Web Host: Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance
- Country: Ontario, Canada
- Format: PDF
- Description: Explore how the social determinants of health impact chronic disease.
- Title: Podcasts and Audio Presentations
- Author: Gillian Kerr
- Web Host: CharityVillage
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML
- Description: Overview of how to post audio and video presentations on the Internet for little cost.
- Title: Read/Write/Now Brochures
- Author: System for Basic Adult Education Support
- Web Host: System for Basic Adult Education Support (SABES)
- Country: USA
- Format: HTML
- Description: ESL students create their own health promotion brochures based on their own experiences.
- Title: How to Create and Assess Print Materials
- Author: Rima A. Rudd
- Web Host: Harvard School of Public Health – Health Literacy Studies
- Country: USA
- Format: HTML
- Description: Tips for creating and assessing print materials on health subjects for people with low literacy skills.
- Title: Online SMOG (Simple Measure of Gobbledygook) Measurement tool
- Author: Harry McLaughlin:
- Web Host: HarryMclaughlin.com
- Country: USA
- Format: HTML
- Description: Paste text into this online tool and get a measurement of the education level needed to read and understand the
text.
- Title: Beyond the Brochure: Alternative Approaches to Effective Health Communication (PDF)
- Author: AMC Cancer Research Center
- Web Host: Center for Disease Control – Cancer Prevention and Control
- Country: USA
- Format: PDF
- Description: This resource is a bit old (1994), so does not cover the Internet and e-mail, but has many useful suggestions
for developing, evaluating and adapting health promotion materials.
- Title: Communications Toolkit
- Author: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Web Host: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Country: USA
- Format: HTML
- Description: Features tips on building a relationship with the media, writing a press release and being a spokesperson.
- Title: Strategic Communications Plan Generator
- Author: The Spin Project
- Web Host: The Spin Project
- Country: USA
- Format: PDF/HTML
- Description: Tutorial and online form for creating a communications plan that will get media attention for your project.
- Title: Various communications tools for non-profits.
- Author: Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS)
- Web Host: Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS)
- Country: Canada
- Format: PDFs (in English and French)
- Description: From this page you can download PDFs on topics such as making a communications plan and working with the media.
- Title: Developing your policy strategy
- Author: VOICE in health policy Project
- Web Host: Project Voice (Canadian Public Health Association)
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML, PDF; also available in French
- Description: Strategic and action plan worksheets that provide “voluntary organizations working in health with a generic process
to begin developing a strategy to address a health policy issue.”
- Title: Introductory Tutorial for the Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS): Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans
- Author: Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics
- Web Host: Government of Canada
- Country: Canada
- Format: HTML (also available in French)
- Description: This self-directed tutorial covers Canadian government policy on ethical issues related to scientific research
but many of the topics (e.g., free and informed consent; privacy and confidentiality) could apply to social science research
in general.
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