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Doing More with What you Know: A Toolkit on Knowledge Exchange

The Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at CHEO (2006). Doing more with what you know. Ottawa, Ontario. Retrieved from Organization website: www.onthepoint.ca
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Description

This tool helps decision-makers identify community needs while sustaining new programs and policies. It is designed for developing collaborations between communities and universities and is relevant for decision-makers who want to build partnerships with stakeholders.

Steps for Using Method/Tool

The resource consists of five elements that provide helpful suggestions for partnerships:

  1. Community-university collaboration roadmap – This tool outlines five steps to develop collaboration on a community research issue.
  2. Emerging concepts – This element provides a description of nine key concepts for successful collaboration.
  3. Models of community-university partnership – This element discusses six examples of collaborative initiatives and a brief description of the initiative and lessons learned.
  4. Glossary of key terms
  5. Suggested readings for more information

These summaries are written by the NCCMT to condense and to provide an overview of the resources listed in the Registry of Methods and Tools and to give suggestions for their use in a public health context. For more information on individual methods and tools included in the review, please consult the authors/developers of the original resources.

We have provided the resources and links as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by McMaster University of any of the products, services or opinions of the external organizations, nor have the external organizations endorsed their resources and links as provided by McMaster University. McMaster University bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external sites.

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