New and Updated Resources

General Skills for Health Promotion

• Skills for Health Promotion (planning, evaluation, policy, health communication) Toolkit
• Health Promotion Skills, Essential Resource Tour (updated)

Planning

• Situational Assessment – Excerpt from THCU's New Edition of Planning Health Promotion Programs Workbook (draft)
• Setting Priorities-Strategic Techniques for Groups
• Priority-Setting-Four Methods for Getting to What's Important
• Orientation Webcasts about the Online Health Program Planner
• Evidence to Support Planning Decisions, Collection of Links

Evaluation

• Critique of Sample Outcome and Process Indicators

Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion

• Workplace Mental Health Promotion, A How-To Guide

Sustainability

• Sustainability At a Glance

Health Communication

• Overview of Developing Health Communication Campaigns Toolkit (updated)
• Collection of Articles about Effectiveness of Health Communication

General Tools

• Literature searches done for our clients

Events

Dates for our two-day Skills for Health Promotion Workshops have been set for October and November 2010. Find out more at www.thcu.ca/mass_emails/2010/2010_03_22_web.html

In September, 2010 our webinar series will begin. Between September 2010 and March 2011 we will offer dozens of sessions on topics such as HP 101, Orientation to the Online Health Program Planner, Policy Development at a Glance, Evaluating Health Promotion Programs, and more! Check our website frequently to find out about upcoming sessions, at www.thcu.ca/events/index.cfm

Coming Soon

• Catalogue of Situational Assessment Tools – Updated with new additions
• HP 102:Workplace Health Promotion – Online resource and webinar series
• Online Business Case Creator
• OHPE article on Social Media
• Ongoing upgrades to the Online Health Promotion Planner www.thcu.ca/ohpp

THCU Partnership News

We are very pleased to be working closely with a variety of partners to offer you capacity-building resources in the most efficient, effective and innovative ways possible. Our most active partnerships at this time are with:

• The Intervention Mapping authors at University of Texas, Drs. Kay Bartholomew and Maria Fernandez to develop a prototype for an intervention mapping online decision support system.
• The Ontario Health Communities Consortium and Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion to support Healthy Communities Fund grant recipients and Healthy Communities Partnerships.
• Various Ontario Public Health Units to develop twelve completed examples of program plans (using the OHPP) to support the recently released Ministry of Health Promotion Guidance Documents.
• The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools to develop an Online Business Case Creator.
• Health Nexus to continue to provide and improve the Online Health Promotion Email Bulletin.

En Français

This was a big year for THCU and French Language Services. We translated all of the components of our Skills for Health Promotion Toolkit. This included four training slideshows (planning, evaluation, health communication, policy development). Click here to read more... (PDF)

Consultations

Our team is available to work with you on health promotion challenges.

New THCU Funding Arrangement

For more information, please read the joint MHP/OAHPP announcement.

Comprehensive Workplace Health Promotion (CWHP) Project

As of July 30, 2010, CWHP will no longer exist as a project separate from other THCU core services. Some CWHP services will continue while others will be modified or discontinued. Click here to read more... (PDF)