| Session Title: Telling Your Program's Story: How to Collect, Create, and Deliver an Effective Success Story |
| Skill-Building Workshop 661 to be held in Mencken Room on Friday, November 9, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM |
| Sponsored by the Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Rene Lavinghouze, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shl3@cdc.gov |
| Ann Price, Community Evaluation Solutions Inc, aprice@communityevaluationsolutions.com |
| Abstract: Prevention programs are often unable to demonstrate outcomes and impacts for several years. Therefore, communicating success during program development and implementation is important for building program momentum and sustainability. Using a workbook developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Oral Health entitled: Impact and value: Telling your program's story, this session will focus on 1) Using success stories to through out the program's life cycle and 2) Using success stories to identify themes and promising practices across multiple sites/programs. This practical and hands on presentation will: define success stories, discuss types of success stories, and describe methods for systematically collecting and using success stories to promote your public health program and policy decisions. Discussion will include use of the workbook and lessons learned in conducting a stakeholder forum for collecting success stories. Attendees will create a 10-second sound-bite story and begin to draft a success story. |