Community Engagement Resources

• Description of resource: This 197-page comprehensive report represents a collaboration of multiple agencies including the Centers for Disease Control among others. It includes the widely recognized and used 9 principles of community engagement, along with details of supporting frameworks, theories and examples.
  
• Topics/settings covered: Table 3.1 includes 12 different projects ranging from oral health to cancer, set in various communities, and lists these projects according to each of the 9 principles. Comprehensive project descriptions follow this table that can be used as examples in trainings or meetings.
  
• Target audience/suggested uses: Any portion of this guide can be used with a variety of stakeholders including community members, implementers, program adopters/organization leaders, researchers and evaluators, public health professionals, clinical team members. Table 3.1 would be an ideal orientation to the 9 principles of community engagement in an initial meeting, which could be followed by a presentation or brief storytelling of the examples illustrating the principles found in Chapter 2. Persons leading planning committees or coalitions would be well-suited to reading Chapters 1 and 2 in preparation.

View the Principles of Community Engagement, 2nd edition (Clinical and Translational Science CTSA; 2011) >

• Description of resource: This 197-page comprehensive report represents a collaboration of multiple agencies including the Centers for Disease Control among others. It includes the widely recognized and used 9 principles of community engagement, along with details of supporting frameworks, theories and examples. 
• Topics/settings covered: Table 3.1 includes 12 different projects ranging from oral health to cancer, set in various communities, and lists these projects according to each of the 9 principles. Comprehensive project descriptions follow this table that can be used as examples in trainings or meetings.   
• Target audience/suggested uses: Any portion of this guide can be used with a variety of stakeholders including community members, implementers, program adopters/organization leaders, researchers and evaluators, public health professionals, clinical team members. Table 3.1 would be an ideal orientation to the 9 principles of community engagement in an initial meeting, which could be followed by a presentation or brief storytelling of the examples illustrating the principles found in Chapter 2. Persons leading planning committees or coalitions would be well-suited to reading Chapters 1 and 2 in preparation.

View the Community Toolbox >

• Description of resource: The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network, a thematic network of the CDC-funded Prevention Research Centers, has created an interactive training curriculum to support community program planners and health educators. This curriculum supports the development of skills for using evidence-based approaches and learning about new tools for planning and evaluating community health interventions.
  
• Topics/settings covered: This fully developed 8-session curriculum includes power points, a facilitator guides, and activity sheets with examples for planning and using evidence-based interventions in concert with community. Examples with accompanying activity worksheets include nutrition, colon cancer screening, physical activity, and mindfulness programs implemented across a variety of settings. Session 2 is focused on community engagement.
• Target audience/suggested uses: This ready-to-go curriculum would be ideal for projects that involve a variety of community members and researchers who are embarking on an effort to address a particular public health priority that has already been identified, with the goal of finding, choosing, adapting and effectively implementing and evaluating evidence-based intervention.

View the Putting Public Health Evidence in Action Training Workshop Guide >

• Type of resource: This brief but informative 15-page guide is full of figures and checklists with an overview of the steps In community engagement methods.     
• Topics/settings covered: The guide focuses heavily on potential barriers such as language, bias, geography, and others that are relevant across a variety of settings. It also offers possible solutions and applications to address barriers.     
• Target audience/suggested uses: The target audience for this guide is public health professionals and researchers. The information in the figures and checklists is well-displayed, and not topic-specific, so many pages could be easily used as handouts in meetings for a variety of settings.

View the Community Health Engagement Guide from the Washington State Department of Health >

• Description of resource: This 43-page online report includes a description of a community development project but also functions as a toolkit with detailed descriptions of the best practices learned from this project about the process of engagement. It contains examples of various strategies used to engage residents in community planning, development, and problem-solving activities.           
• Topics/settings covered: The toolkit was generated in King County, Washington for use by Seattle area residents, but was designed to include materials that can be adapted by a variety of settings. This project was to engage residents in prioritizing resource development and policies to improve the health and well-being of their communities.  
  
• Target audience and suggested uses: This toolkit would be especially effective for use by community members and planning committees on how to get started with needs assessment and other formative evaluation. The tools found at the end of the toolkit are informative examples of how to deploy various information-gathering and engagement strategies. It gives examples and instructions for how to organize and implement activities such as community walkabouts, youth engagement, speakout events, and other activities found to be effective in their project, with accompanying photos.

View the Community Engagement Toolkit >

• Description of resource: This 55-page report is from a three-day technical workshop convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop a framework for community-engaged health services. The report is full of helpful checklists, figures, summaries of presentations from the workshop, and is well-laid out with various photos and illustrations. 
• Topic/settings covered: Many examples from the continent of Africa dealing with the Ebola crisis are featured throughout.  Suggestions for how to adapt/use the framework for other topics or settings are given at the end of the report. It has a strong emphasis on empowerment and community action to address a prevalent or ongoing health issue where trust issues or misinformation have been observed.
  
• Target audience/suggested uses: The target audience for this resource includes community members, public health officials, and researchers. Outputs from the group work at the technical workshop can be found on pages 41-43 and are helpful in providing guidelines for consideration of best practices in community engagement. This report is useful in the beginning phases of the engagement process.

View the WHO Community Engagement Framework >

• Description of resource: This 3-page tip sheet with references is an easy to understand introduction to community engagement. It is broken down into steps and guidelines for engagement activities.     
• Topic/settings covered: The tip sheet was developed for organizations working with youth and families, but the information is applicable across a variety of topics. 
  
• Target audience/suggested uses: The target audience is program planners and implementers. It is especially helpful as a handout or to be distributed prior to a meeting as an introductory guide.

View the Community Engagement Tip Sheet from the Office of Adolescent Health >

• Description of resource: This peer-reviewed article used a systematic process to identify sources of information relevant to implementation science researchers. The goal is to meet the need for more specific guidance on how to incorporate engagement into implementation research projects.     
• Topic/settings covered: Many of the resources are generated from international work dealing with a range of situations from infectious disease outbreaks to climate change and poverty, but the frameworks and approaches can be applied across a variety of settings and topics. 
• Target audience/suggested uses: These resources can help implementation researchers think about practical ways to best engage with stakeholders in authentic community engaged research.

Read the article >

Douglas Glandon, Ligia Paina, Olakunle Alonge, David H Peters, Sara Bennett, 10 Best resources for community engagement in implementation research, Health Policy and Planning, Volume 32, Issue 10, December 2017, Pages 1457–1465

• Description of resource: This resource was developed in response to an identified need for more developed guidelines for data sharing in community-academic partnerships.
• Topic/settings covered: 
  • Best practices on data sharing, data management plans, and data sharing agreements
  • A step by step process for the creation of a data sharing agreement
  • Recommendations for what to include in a data sharing agreement
  • Information about the creation and support of effective community-academic partnerships–including building trust
  • An annotated bibliography of key resources for the support of data sharing in community-academic partnerships
• Target audience/suggested uses: The target audience is academics and community partners.
  

View the Data Sharing: Creating Agreements >