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BUILDING A COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP TO COLLECT DATA
COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND EVALUATION
CONDUCTING A COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT
FINISHED OR ON-GOING ASSESSMENT DATA/REPORTS
DATA COLLECTION METHODS
DATA ANALYSIS
DATA INTERPRETATION
DATA PRESENTATION
REPORT WRITING
USING DATA FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING
USING DATA FOR ADVOCACY
RECURSOS EN ESPAÑOL
SECONDARY DATA SOURCES

BUILDING A COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP TO COLLECT DATA

The Consensus Process.

Coping with Conflict.

A Gifted Facilitator.

Facilitating Effective Communication.

Ground Rules and Agreements.

The Community Leadership Association.

Consensus Building.

Working with the Faith Community: Reflections from a National Faith Leader.

Engaging Youth in Philanthropy and Voluntarism: A Resource List.

Collaborating to Improve Community Health: Workbook and Guide to Best Practices in Creating Healthier Communities and Populations. July 1997, Jossey-Bass.

Building Collaborative Partnerships.

Methods to Strengthen Communities: Raising Capacity in Low-Income Neighbourhoods (in English and Spanish).

Community Empowerment: Some Key Words for Mobilizers.

Collaboration Math: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide

The Tension of Turf: Making it Work for the Coalition

A Short Guide to Consensus Building.

Facilitating and Managing Group Participation: Effective Meetings.

Community ToolBox: Bringing Solutions to Light.

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND EVALUATION

Community Tool Box.

Executive Summary of Community Based Research in the US.

Participatory Evaluation.

Conducting a Participatory Evaluation.

Participatory Evaluation with Young People.

Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Evaluation with Young People.

CONDUCTING A COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT

Moving to the Future: Developing Community-Based Nutrition Services.

Designing and Conducting Health Systems Research Projects: Volume 2.

Designing and Conducting Health Systems Research Projects: Volume 1, Proposal Development and Fieldwork.

Preparing for a Collaborative Community Assessment.

Community Health Assessment Clearinghouse.

Community Assessment Guide Book.

Wonderful online tool for understanding and prioritizing factors within your own community that can help improve health and safety.

FINISHED OR ON-GOING ASSESSMENT DATA/REPORTS

Kids Count Data Book.

Measuring for Success 2004 Report

California County Data Book.

Children's Report Card.

Community Health Needs Assessment: A Guide for First Nations and Inuit Health Authorities.

Orange County Health Needs Assessment.

Boone County Health and Human Services Needs Assessment.

Hispanic Health Needs Assessment.

DATA COLLECTION METHODS

Quantitative and Qualitative Research Guide.

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research.

User-Friendly Handbook for Mixed Methods Evaluations.

Research Methods Knowledge Base.

Qualitative versus Quantitative Research.

Qualitative Methods Workbook.

Qualitative-Quantitative Power Point presentation.

Asset Mapping:

Community Health Worker Programs Materials on Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer, Section on Asset Mapping.

Community Capacity Building & Asset Mapping©.

Youth Community Asset Mapping Manual Booklet.

Healthy-Children-Healthy-City Asset Mapping Project.

Neighborhood Knowledge California.

Mapping Community Assets Workbook.

Chapter 3, Section 1: Developing a Plan for Identifying Local Needs and Resources.

Chapter 3, Section 8: Identifying Community Assets and Resources.

Identifying, Mapping and Mobilizing Our Assets.

Mapping Gallery.

Focus Groups:

What Are Focus Groups?

Good Questions/ Better Answers: A Formative Research Handbook for California HIV Prevention Programs.

A Manual for the Use of Focus Groups.

Using Focus Groups for Evaluation.

Survey Research Tools and Services: Focus Group Methods.

Focus Group Interviews in Qualitative Research: A Review of the Literature.

Focus Group Training Handout.

Focus Group Power Point Presentation.

Conducting Focus Group Interviews.

Surveys:

What is a Survey.

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research: Links to Survey Sites.

Good Questions/ Better Answers: A Formative Research Handbook for California HIV Prevention Programs.

The Survey System: Survey Design.

Conducting A Community Needs Assessment: Preliminary Data Collection Techniques.

How to Write a Good Survey.

Public Opinion Quarterly. 2004 68(1):109-130.

Survey Research.

Research Methods Knowledge Base: Constructing the Survey.

Questionnaire Design and Analysis Workbook.

Sampling Workbook.

Survey Questionnaire Construction.

Survey Methods.

Collecting Evaluation Data: Surveys.

Collecting Evaluation Data: End of Session Questionnaires.

Writing Better Survey Questions.

Examples of Survey Questions:

California Health Interview Survey: Topics and Questionnaires

City of Portland Volunteerism and Work/Life Balance Survey

National Health Interview Survey: Questions, Datasets, and Related Documents

Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Questionnaires for Wave I data collection

Sample course evaluation questions for courses using HPC technology

Key Informant Interviews:

Conducting Key Informant Interviews.

Conducting A Community Needs Assessment: Preliminary Data Collection Techniques.

Community Engagement-Needs Assessment: Conducting Key Informant and Focus Group Interviews.

Getting the Lay of the Land on Health: A Guide for Using Interviews to Gather Information.

Needs Assessment Techniques: Using Key Informant Interviews.

Needs Assessment Techniques: Conducting a Key Informant Interview.

Chapter 38, Section 8: Conducting Interviews with Key Participants to Analyze Critical Events.

Conducting Key Informant Interviews.

Community Forums:

Conducting A Community Forum.

Conducting A Community Needs Assessment: Preliminary Data Collection Techniques.

Chapter 3, Section 3: Conducting Public Forums and Listening Sessions.

Community Engagement: Click on Community Forums and Public Hearings.

Using Community Meetings.

Rapid Appraisal:

Know Your Audience: Chapter 13 Observation.

Good Questions/Better Answers: A Formative Research Handbook for California HIV Prevention Programs.

The 2002 User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation.

Observation, Records, and Traces as Alternatives to Direct Questioning in Collecting Evaluation Data.

Collecting Evaluation Data: Direct Observation.

Using Direct Observation Techniques.

Photovoice: Social Change Through Photography.

DATA ANALYSIS

Statistics Glossary.

Introduction to Data Collection and Analysis.

Little Handbook of Statistical Practice.

Electronic Statistics Text Book.

Online Seminars and Classes.

Analyzing Quantitative Data.

Analyzing Qualitative Data.

DATA INTERPRETATION

Program Evaluation Workshop Materials: Step 5 - Make Decisions. Ottawa-Carleton Health Department, 1991.

Evaluation Working Group: Steps in Program Evaluation - Justify Conclusions.

Data Interpretation Games.

DATA PRESENTATION

Charting and Graphing Data: Data Presentation.

Graphical Data Presentation.

Presenting Data: Tabular and graphic display of social indicators.

Data Presentation: A Guide To Good Graphics.

Data Presentation: A Guide To Good Tables.

Guidelines for Effective Data Presentations.

EIA Guidelines for Statistical Graphs.

Informative Presentation of Tables, Graphs and Statistics.

REPORT WRITING

Writing Guides.

Guide to Writing the Scientific-Format Paper.

Guide to Speeches and Presentations.

Report Writing.

Communicating Results: Tips and Practices (Power Point presentation).

USING DATA FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING

Association for Community Health Improvement.

Using Surveillance To Promote Public Health: Examples from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS).

Strategic Planning Resources.

Developing an Effective Planning Process: A Guide for Local MCH Programs.

Strategic Planning in Nonprofit and Public Sector Organizations.

Comprehensive and Integrated Chronic Disease Prevention Action Planning Handbook for States and Communities

Preparing a Community Action Plan: The Community Decides its Own Future.

Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool (ENACT).

Using Data: A Guide for Community Health Activists.

Community Group Member Survey: Using the Results.

USING DATA FOR ADVOCACY

My Voice Counts! Campaigns for Youth's Reproductive and Sexual Health: Advocacy and Organizing Toolkit

Making Public Programs Work for Communities of Color: An Action Kit for Community Leaders.

Making Radio Work For You: An Advocate's Guide on How to Use Radio Actualities and Talk Radio to Move Your Agenda Forward.

First 5 Advocacy Toolkit

Public Health Communications Toolkit

Primary Care Advocacy Kit

Using E-mail as an Advocacy Tool: Can you make an impact?

Media Advocacy Toolkit

Global Health Advocacy Manual

RECURSOS EN ESPAÑOL

Métodos de colección de datos:

Recolectando Información Sobre el Problema (Collecting Information About the Problem).

Evaluando la Comunidad-Asesorando las Necedidades y los Recursos de la Comunidad (Assessing Community Needs and Resources)

Manual de Evaluación Participativa del Programa: Involucrando a los participantes del programa en el proceso de evaluación (Participatory Evaluation Manual: Involving program participants in the evaluation process).

Participación en la Evaluación (Participation in Appraisal)

Valor de los mapas:

Identificando los Bienes y Recursos de la Comunidad (Identifying Community Assets and Resources)

Examen de los recursos internos de una comunidad (Survey of Internal Community Resources)

Cómo Involucrar a los Medios:

Agencia para Sustancias Tóxicas y el Registro de Enfermedades. (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry).

Fundamentos de Principios y Prácticas para la Comunicación sobre Riesgos para la Salud (Health Risk Communication Principles and Practices)

Cómo Preparar una Entrevista en los Medios de Comunicación (How to Prepare for and Interview in the Media)

Como Tratar Con Los Medios De Comunicación (Mastering the Media)

SECONDARY DATA SOURCES

State agencies and foundations

Foundations and advocacy organizations

State surveys

California Cancer Registry
California Health Interview Survey AskCHIS site
California Department of Heath Services, Office of AIDS. HIV/AIDS Case Registry
California Department of Heath Services, Office of Women's Health. Women's Health Survey
University of California, California Policy Research Center
United Way list of California county websites

Federal agencies

Federal Government Website
Administration on Aging
Agency for Health Care and Policy Research
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC Wonder
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AIDS Public Use Data by major metropolitan area
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control WISQARS Database (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Disease Morbidity Dataset (by state)
Freedom of Information and Privacy at Health Care Financing Administration
Healthy People 2010 Data- state level data queries that provide some benchmarks
Indian Health Service
National Cancer Institute, Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)
National Cancer Institute, State Cancer Profile website
National Center for Education Statistics
Office of Minority Health Resource Center
PDQ® - National Cancer Institute's Comprehensive Cancer Database
US Census Bureau
US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics
US Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
US General Accounting Office (GAO)

Federal surveys through the National Center for Health Statistics