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Poster Reception #2

Government Evaluation

Session: Poster Reception #2

212 - An interactive writing support toolkit to strengthen the capacity of state and local health departments and tribal organizations to disseminate evaluation findings

Stream: Government and Public Policy

Thursday, October 24, 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Abstract Information: Empowering voices of evaluators from state and local health departments and tribal organizations with varying levels of expertise can lead to improved use and dissemination of evaluation findings. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP), in collaboration with the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), developed and tailored multimodal activities to improve the writing capacity of DHDSP-funded recipients to develop publication-ready manuscripts and other written dissemination products. DHDSP collaborated with recipients to identify resources that would directly assist with disseminating their evaluation findings. One activity of the multimodal approach was an interactive, online toolkit. The interactive toolkit includes recorded writing workshops, knowledge checks to assess comprehension, and resource documents designed for recipients to improve their writing skills and confidence. Built-in analytics on the toolkit were used to access performance metrics for two consecutive five-month reporting periods (4/10/2023 – 8/2/2023 and 8/3/2023 – 12/31/2023) which provided valuable insight to tailoring our multimodal approach. Based on averages of the two collection periods, visit time per page stayed similar, illustrating that recipients continued to use the toolkit over the 10-month period. Data from each collection period also demonstrated that recipients spent most of their time learning more about writing with a health equity lens and disseminating their evaluation findings. This poster will showcase the interactive toolkit, how the toolkit was conceptualized using recipient voices, and highlight metrics that continue to tailor our approach of empowering recipients to disseminate their evaluation findings.