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Informing Best Practice With Community Practice: The Community Change Chronicle Method for Program Documentation and EvaluationUniversity of Minnesota School of Public Health, sherscott{at}earthlink.net
North Carolina Division of Public Health, Chronic Disease and Injury Section, Raleigh, North Carolina Health promotion professionals are increasingly encouraged to implement evidence-based programs in health departments, communities, and schools. Yet translating evidence-based research into practice is challenging, especially for complex initiatives that emphasize environmental strategies to create community change. The purpose of this article is to provide health promotion practitioners with a method to evaluate the community change process and document successful applications of environmental strategies. The community change chronicle method uses a five-step process: first, develop a logic model; second, select outcomes of interest; third, review programmatic data for these outcomes; fourth, collect and analyze relevant materials; and, fifth, disseminate stories. From 2001 to 2003, the authors validated the use of a youth empowerment model and developed eight community change chronicles that documented the creation of tobacco-free schools policies (n = 2), voluntary policies to reduce secondhand smoke in youth hangouts (n = 3), and policy and program changes in diverse communities (n = 3).
Key Words: evidence-based practice • best practices • youth empowerment • program evaluation • tobacco control • narrative methods • ecological model • environmental outcomes
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1, 2009 Health Promotion Practice, Vol. 10, No. 1,
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