Tools

Across Ontario, health professions involved in health promotion and primary prevention are increasingly interested in effective use of evidence to strengthen interventions. Rising expectations that health promotion practitioners be skilled in the application of research and program evaluation has created a need for capacity-building tools to fill the gap.

TEIP's systematic, field-tested and capacity-building tools for Program Assessment, Program Evaluation and Program Evidence help programs and practitioners in the following ways:

• Enable you to use evidence, including evaluation to strengthen your programs
• Add clarity, certainty and objectivity to decision-making
• Integrate realistic evaluation seamlessly into the program planning cycle
• Facilitate sharing and application of knowledge via unique knowledge exchange processes
• Support new requirements under the Ontario Public Health Standards

Capacity for evidence-informed practice requires more than practitioner skills. TEIP acknowledges the significance of organizational support to strengthen evidence-informed practice and provides steps to assess and enhance this important factor.