The Health Promotion Hub publishes and commissions
various resources to help support health promotion initiatives and
activities. The publications offer a broad overview of a particular
topic along with tools and information to help you implement it
in your community.
Our staff monitors and analyzes many information
sources, such as journals, databases and the internet, to help support
your work. We maintain an in-house resource library to help us serve
you better.
Community
Engagement as Health Promotion
[Presentation, 
3.4 MB]
This presentation explores the concepts
of health and health promotion through the metaphor of an iceberg
and the broad influences on our health that lie 'beneath the surface'.
The presentation describes health promotion as an inclusive process
that helps people gain control over the factors that influence
their health. Community engagement is discussed as a key strategy
to promote health. Engagement can take many forms, ranging from
focused community initiatives to broad-based community mobilization
projects and electronic strategies.
Building
Capacity in Health Promotion: More than Bricks and Mortar
[,
51 kB]
This tip-sheet has been developed as part
of our capacity-building project. Based on literature reviews,
consultation and focus groups with other health promotion resource
centres, this resource helps clarify the meaning of capacity building
for health promotion and includes examples.
Factors
Influencing the Success of Collaboration
This tip-sheet describes nineteen factors
that influence the success of collaborations between human service,
government and other non-profit agencies.
Community
Action Handbook (1995) [,
286 kB]
The Community Action Handbook provides
practical information for initiating a process of community action.
If followed, this will lead to the formation of a community-driven
community coalition, in which members cooperate, coordinate and
collaborate in the planning and implementation of health promotion
programs, policies and activities.
Building
Effective Coalitions: Trainers Manual (1995) [,
3 MB])
This resource was developed as a tool
to use in train-the trainer programs to instruct people how to
build effective community coalitions. The module includes a facilitator's
guide, overheads for use in a training session and a participant's
workbook.
Using
Stories to Guide Action (1994)
This guidebook from Ontario's Healthy
Communities uses nine stories to examine community processes and
activities.These community level stories help people reflect on
their experiences, and to share their information and tools within
and outside their communities. The guidebook identifies common
elements, and suggests processes for developing healthy communities.
It is divided into five sections:
- a context for the guidebook, exploring
why and how the stories were developed
- a description of the three components that make a community
"crackle"
- "words of wisdom" and reflections from the communities
an analytical framework of healthy communities processes that
links the three components
- ways to guide action, including a section on writing stories
and working with healthy communities coalitions.
Available for viewing or downloading
as: HTML or PDF.
- Table
of Contents and Introduction [,
36 kB]
- “Making the Crackle”,
The Stories [,
111 kB)
- Words of Wisdom, Framework for
Healthy Communities, What We Learned [,
76 kB]
- Appendices [,
31 kB]
Dynamic Partnerships
(Revised March 31, 2003)
This tip-sheet provides reflections, references
and resources about partnerships.
Leadership in Changing
Times [,
76.5kB]
This resource focuses on the concept of
SHARED LEADERSHIP — the work of guiding change, working with
resistance, and mobilizing partners while building competence
and self-reliance in others.
The Learning Organization:
The Implementation Challenge
A new series of articles on implementing
organizational change, compiled from the OHPE bulletin.
Creating a Climate for Change
This document is the result of what we
have learned from our work over the past several years with countless
organizations that have that have had to deal with great changes.
It is broken into four main sections: communication, support,
structure, and the future.
A Discussion Paper
on Healthy Organizational Change [,
123kB]
This discussion paper focuses on healthy
organizational change in the face of unpredictable futures. Health
promotion principles can be adapted to organizational change.
Concepts and strategies to deal with change in an unstable environment
are explored.
