Objectives

The goal of the Towards Evidence-Informed Practice program is to increase the effectiveness of health promotion and CDP initiatives in order to decrease the incidence and burden of stroke and chronic disease.   

TEIP’s overall objectives are to:

• Increase application of relevant evidence and knowledge exchange processes
• Increase generation of practice-based evidence
• Increase evidence-informed health promotion programs targeting priority populations (e.g. low income)
• Increase proportion of Ontarian's who are physically active, eat healthy foods and are smoke free in keeping with objectives of the Ontario Stroke System
• Decrease incidence of chronic disease in keeping with the objectives of Ontario’s Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Framework

TEIP aims to achieve these objectives through:

• Systematic, realistic, field-tested and capacity-building tools
• Training and knowledge exchange opportunities to support application of TEIP tools

As of 2008, TEIP has and will continue to engage in the following activities:

• Master Trainer Workshops and follow-up support to promote application of TEIP tools across Ontario
• Webinars to support evidence-informed practice
• Electronic newsletter to support knowledge exchange and share TEIP stories and learnings
• Development of additional learning tools and resources to support evidence informed practice
• Posters and presentations at relevant knowledge exchange conferences
• Publication(s) in a peer reviewed journal