Raising Awareness
Developing Health Communication Campaigns
Public Health Ontario
This presentation deck outlines the different steps of the health communication campaign planning model and illustrates how you can apply these steps to your own situation. The resource also provides a 12-item checklist to help you develop persuasive health communication messages.
http://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/eRepository/Developing_health_communication_campaigns_2012.pdf
CDC Social Media Tools, Guidelines and Best Practices
Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
This webpage contains several resources that can be used by wellness champions to guide their use of social media and develop health-related content.
http://www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/tools/guidelines/
Advocating for Change
Community Tool Box
This resource outlines key steps that can be taken to raise awareness about an idea and ways to identify potential sources of opposition to a new idea.
http://ctb.ku.edu/en/advocating-change#node_toolkits_full_group_outline
Advocacy Toolkit
College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta
This webpage provides valuable information and resources about how to translate ideas to decision-makers (e.g., school leadership team).
https://www.nurses.ab.ca/about/what-is-carna/policy-priorities-and-research/advocacy-toolkit
Healthy Eating Starts Here
Alberta Health Services
This webpage provides resources to help promote healthy eating in the workplace. The resources include tip sheets and posters that a wellness champion could use to increase awareness for a healthy eating initiative within a school community.
https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/nutrition/Page6348.aspx
Health Communication at a Glance
Public Health Ontario
This webpage provides a summary and link to the ‘At a Glance: 12 Steps for Developing a Health Communication Campaign' guide that a wellness champion could use to develop a health communication campaign in their school environment. In the guide, a wellness champion will find the step-by-step process to create a campaign as well as associated worksheets to assist in planning.
Focus On: Six Strategic Steps for Situational Assessment
Public Health Ontario
This resource explains what a situational assessment is and explains the steps that should be followed to conduct a situational assessment.
https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/eRepository/FocusOn-Situational_Assessment_2015.pdf