Evidence
Knowledge Mobilization Toolkit
Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
This is a toolkit that is intended to facilitate brainstorming, planning, and implementation of strategies for knowledge mobilization, or information sharing. This toolkit contains clear steps and resources to assist in planning what information to share, how to share it, and ways to evaluate the impact. Though this toolkit it aimed toward child and youth mental health, the toolkit can easily be used to assist a wellness champion in sharing information to promote their new idea in their school community.
Health Equity Impact Assessment
Government of Ontario
This is a tool that can assist wellness champions to make decisions and consider the health impact of their new idea. This can help reduce the likelihood of creating disparities between the populations who will be impacted by their new idea. This tool has a workbook and a template to help wellness champions through five steps: scoping, potential impacts, mitigation, monitoring, and dissemination.
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/heia/
Cost Savings Calculator – Resources
Alberta Health Services
This tool is used to calculate the potential cost savings for an organization if they invest in a workplace health initiative.
https://workplaces.healthiertogether.ca/resources/
Canadian Handbook on Health Impact Assessment
World Health Organization (WHO)
A handbook that provides an outline of the procedures for considering the health impact while performing an environmental assessment.
https://www.who.int/hia/tools/toolkit/whohia063/en/
Alberta Policy Coalition for Chronic Disease Prevention
School of Public Health, University of Alberta
This webpage outlines the five priorities for chronic disease prevention that the Alberta Policy Coalition for Chronic Disease Prevention (APCCP) focuses on to help community members and organizations create evidence-based policies. The five priorities redirect to the specific topics that APCCP have reviewed within each priority subject. Evidence and recommendations are provided that wellness champions can use in their schools to promote their idea.
http://abpolicycoalitionforprevention.ca/healthy-communities/