Queensland Stay On Your Feet® Toolkit

• Queensland Stay On Your Feet® Home
• Toolkit
  • Model diagram
  • Model's explanation
• Background
• Phase 1 - Investigate
  • What is the problem?
  • What are the impacts of the problem?
  • Why does the problem occur?
  • Where does the problem occur?
  • When does the problem occur?
  • What is the current context?
  • What is already happening?
• Phase 1 - Materials
  • Collecting information
  • Fear of falling
  • Risk factors
  • Key documents
  • Community stocktake
• Phase 2 - Plan
  • What can be done?
  • What do we know about the target group?
  • Who can be involved?
  • How do we keep the work going?
  • How will we measure progress?
• Phase 2 - Materials
  • Key stakeholders
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Good working relationships
  • What works?
  • Decision making
  • Goals, objectives, strategies
  • Community planning meetings
  • Reach and marketing
  • Social marketing plan
  • Key messages
  • Community engagement
  • Partnerships
• Phase 3 - Implement
  • Are we testing before we act?
  • What can we achieve now and later?
  • Are there opportunities to explore?
  • How are we monitoring progress?
  • Are we talking with others about our work?
  • Are we measuring our efforts?
• Phase 3 - Materials
  • Communicating
  • Awareness raising
  • Communication plan
  • Community progress meetings
  • Ambassadors
  • Physical activity
  • Sports tours
  • Come and try days
  • Case studies
• Phase 4 - Review
  • Process evaluation
  • Impact evaulation
  • Outcome evaluation
  • Share and celebrate
  • What happens next?
• Phase 4 - Materials
  • Process evaluation tools
  • Impact evaluation tools
  • Outcome evaluation tools
• Acknowledgements

Have we shared our experiences and celebrated?

D. Have we shared our experiences and celebrated?

Share experiences
The evaluation of your project/program will provide valuable information about which aspects worked and which did not. Sharing project/program experiences is often overlooked and may not be automatically built into project/program plans. This information is important to share with others throughout the project/program and at its completion.

Sharing project/program experiences is greater than just providing the results of your project/program. It is about engaging others throughout to improve the project’s/program’s reach and adoption, and so key stakeholders can adapt their current activities according to results [110].

Throughout the project/program and after its evaluation:

• disseminate project/program interim and final results
• share both positive and negative learnings
• add to the evidence base.

Sharing learnings and results may help to:

• gain further support for the introduction of successful projects/programs [111]
• provide support for new similar projects/programs
• increase the reach, adoption and impact of the project/program and ultimately help to maintain it [111]
• prevent the waste of finite resources on undertaking similar work in the case of unsuccessful projects/programs [111]
• provide feedback for future planning [112]
• boost morale of those involved with the project/program [23].

Share both your positive and negative project/program experiences with a wide range of people, including:

• participants
• stakeholders
• funding bodies
• other organisations, agencies and/or services
• government departments
• health professionals
• universities and academics
• the media [113].

Ways to share project/program results and learnings with others include:

• distributing project/program updates
• writing newsletter articles
• holding a forum or public meeting
• producing an executive summary of the results
• conducting training or education sessions
• publishing reports on the website
• presenting at a conference
• publishing an article in a peer reviewed journal [111, 113].

You may also like to consider the wide range of internet technologies including web seminars (known as webinars), video streaming, video conferences and power point presentations [110].

For more information on effective ways to communicate with others, visit:
Communicating

Additional information and power point presentations can be found on the Victorian Government Health Information website.

For Queensland Stay On Your Feet Wide Bay/Burnett trial project results, executive summary and further information, visit: Queensland Stay On Your Feet Wide Bay/Burnett trial project

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Celebrate!
Celebrate the positive aspects of the project/program and the contribution of others. Remember, "success breeds success, so when you have a win, be sure to celebrate" [24].

A celebration can be as simple as holding a morning tea to announce a significant project/program achievement and thanking the working group members and key stakeholders for their contributions [23].

The photograph below shows a celebration where Queensland Stay on Your Feet Wide Bay/Burnett Ambassadors were presented with certificates of appreciation in November 2005.

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