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Towards Evidence-Informed Practice
TEIP Offers Master Trainer Workshops to Support OPHS
Foundational Standard for Research and Knowledge Exchange
TEIP Tools Recognized by MOHLTC Public Health Standards Branch: TEIP's capacity-building tools for Program Assessment, Program Evidence and Program Evaluation have been recognized by the OPHS Branch as a recommended resource to support the Foundational Standard for Research and Knowledge Exchange. TEIP Tools will be linked to the OPHS Website and Online Resource Section, scheduled for release in late 2008.
Master Trainer Workshops: To facilitate the use of TEIP Tools across Ontario TEIP will offer a series of Master Trainer Workshops beginning November 2008. The goal is to create organization-based champions who can:
Build practitioner and organizational capacity for evidence-informed practices; Support their organization to apply TEIP tools to strengthen selected community-based health promotion and CDP programs; Demonstrate progress in addressing requirements under the new Standards.
Master Trainers will receive a Trainer’s Manual and will benefit from ongoing TEIP guidance via email and phone support, skill-building webinars and electronic newsletters.
Benefits of Applying TEIP Tools
TEIP's capacity-building tools help community-based health promotion and CDP programs and practitioners in the following ways:
Enable you to use evidence to inform programming decisions; Provide evidence-based criteria to assess and strengthen local programs; Add clarity, certainty and objectivity to decision-making; Demonstrate progress in addressing requirements under the new OPHS.
Public health units and other health-promoting organizations can nominate staff to participate in Master Trainer workshops. Workshops can be delivered onsite or regionally. For more information, contact Dayna Albert, Manager, Towards Evidence-Informed Practice program.
"On behalf of the Alliance, we would like to express our appreciation to the public health managers for their commitment to injury prevention," added Kerri Richards of Toronto Public Health and co-chair of the Alliance.
"We would also like to thank the Ontario Public Health Association, the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, and the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion for their continued support and leadership of injury prevention and look forward to working together with them long into the future," Richards concluded.
Most regions across Ontario were represented at the meeting. A meeting report will be compiled and finalized shortly, available to Public Health Injury Prevention Managers.
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