How to Use the Toolkit Library
Background
The 2018 Partnership Sustainability Conference was Phase 3 of a 4-phase project led by the Partners interested in Partnership Sustainability (PiPS) Team. From 10/18/18 - 10/20/18, 66 participants gathered from across the nation in Denver, Colorado to discuss priority topics in partnership sustainability with the end goal of developing best practices for sustainable partnerships. Following the conference, the PiPS team compiled all notes and feedback into a 54-page document. These notes and a detailed summary report were shared back with all participants. These notes were used to further clarify nine themes of what helps partnerships and what prevents them from being sustainable ("facilitators" and "barriers.") This document was also used as the foundational documents for workgroup members, who were comprised of conference attendees, to generate products for sharing with other current and potential partnerships.
Creating the Toolkit Workgroup
In Phase IV of the Partnership Sustainability project, conference participants were invited to participate in workgroups specifically focused on Dissemination Strategies and Toolkit Frameworks. The goal of Phase IV was to begin constructing a patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) Partnership Sustainability Toolkit that could be used to support sustainability in new and existing PCOR partnerships. From January to June 2019, workgroup members met monthly via web-based videoconferences that were facilitated by a PiPS team member. In between monthly workgroup meetings, smaller groups of participants communicated via email and held as-needed telephone calls to make progress on the toolkit framework, which was eventually changed to a toolkit "library." Workgroup members decided that, rather than duplicate other toolkits shared online, they would use a review process (see below) to identify the best toolkits for each theme and compile them into a usable website that was targeted to academicians/researchers, community members/patients, and those working with community organizations/non-profits. The final product is the Toolkit Library.
Toolkit Review Process
Toolkit workgroup members identified already-existing toolkits that they found online through a variety of means then broke into smaller groups to determine which were the most useful to the project and which partnership level and theme(s) best fit the toolkits. Members used these criteria in their reviews: Audience, Format, Stage of Partnership, Type of Partnership, Topics Covered, Purpose of the Toolkit, and a review of how useful the resource was and how easy it was to understand to different audiences. PiPS team members then compiled the reviews, and using that information, created the Toolkit Library on a Prezi website. Many of the toolkit links in the library also include information about what pages/sections are most relevant to the different audiences and themes.
Toolkit Workgroup Members
The following people were integral in the creation of the Toolkit Library: Lauri Andress, George Autobee, Renee Boothroyd, Melinda Butsch Kovacic, Robert Chavez, Ingrid A. Gonzalez, Crispin Goytia, Carolyn Jenkins, Georgina Lucas, Andrea Nederveld, Kimberly Pounds, Brendaly Rodriguez, Stephanie Salazar-Rodriguez, Mary L. Schramke, Leslie Wright, Nikki Cimino, Kevin Werner, Tristen Hall, Paige Castro-Reyes, Charlene Barrientos Ortiz, Al Richmond, and Justine Sunshine. The PiPS Team who helped coordinate the work of the Toolkit Workgroup is comprised of a partnership between Trailhead Institute, the University of Colorado Anschutz, 2040 Partners for Health, and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health.
Help Us Improve the Toolkit Library!
We have created a survey that allows visitors of the Toolkit Library to answer a few questions about the usefulness of the site and offer feedback on how we can improve it in the future. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey if you have thoughts on it.
- Visit the link above
- Click "Present"
- Click on the bubble that best represents your role in the partnership
- Click on the green bubble that best describes the length of your partnership
- Click one of the gold or red bubbles to learn more about one of the themes of partnership sustainability (Note: the red bubbles do not have toolkits associated with them. Instead we offer a link to our Toolkit Resource Input Survey for you to share relevant toolkits.)
- Click one of the green bubbles to be taken to a link for the named toolkit
- To back out of the section you are on and learn more about another theme, click on the arrow on the bottom left of the page
Background
The 2018 Partnership Sustainability Conference was Phase 3 of a 4-phase project led by the Partners interested in Partnership Sustainability (PiPS) Team. From 10/18/18 - 10/20/18, 66 participants gathered from across the nation in Denver, Colorado to discuss priority topics in partnership sustainability with the end goal of developing best practices for sustainable partnerships. Following the conference, the PiPS team compiled all notes and feedback into a 54-page document. These notes and a detailed summary report were shared back with all participants. These notes were used to further clarify nine themes of what helps partnerships and what prevents them from being sustainable ("facilitators" and "barriers.") This document was also used as the foundational documents for workgroup members, who were comprised of conference attendees, to generate products for sharing with other current and potential partnerships.
Creating the Toolkit Workgroup
In Phase IV of the Partnership Sustainability project, conference participants were invited to participate in workgroups specifically focused on Dissemination Strategies and Toolkit Frameworks. The goal of Phase IV was to begin constructing a patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) Partnership Sustainability Toolkit that could be used to support sustainability in new and existing PCOR partnerships. From January to June 2019, workgroup members met monthly via web-based videoconferences that were facilitated by a PiPS team member. In between monthly workgroup meetings, smaller groups of participants communicated via email and held as-needed telephone calls to make progress on the toolkit framework, which was eventually changed to a toolkit "library." Workgroup members decided that, rather than duplicate other toolkits shared online, they would use a review process (see below) to identify the best toolkits for each theme and compile them into a usable website that was targeted to academicians/researchers, community members/patients, and those working with community organizations/non-profits. The final product is the Toolkit Library.
Toolkit Review Process
Toolkit workgroup members identified already-existing toolkits that they found online through a variety of means then broke into smaller groups to determine which were the most useful to the project and which partnership level and theme(s) best fit the toolkits. Members used these criteria in their reviews: Audience, Format, Stage of Partnership, Type of Partnership, Topics Covered, Purpose of the Toolkit, and a review of how useful the resource was and how easy it was to understand to different audiences. PiPS team members then compiled the reviews, and using that information, created the Toolkit Library on a Prezi website. Many of the toolkit links in the library also include information about what pages/sections are most relevant to the different audiences and themes.
Toolkit Workgroup Members
The following people were integral in the creation of the Toolkit Library: Lauri Andress, George Autobee, Renee Boothroyd, Melinda Butsch Kovacic, Robert Chavez, Ingrid A. Gonzalez, Crispin Goytia, Carolyn Jenkins, Georgina Lucas, Andrea Nederveld, Kimberly Pounds, Brendaly Rodriguez, Stephanie Salazar-Rodriguez, Mary L. Schramke, Leslie Wright, Nikki Cimino, Kevin Werner, Tristen Hall, Paige Castro-Reyes, Charlene Barrientos Ortiz, Al Richmond, and Justine Sunshine. The PiPS Team who helped coordinate the work of the Toolkit Workgroup is comprised of a partnership between Trailhead Institute, the University of Colorado Anschutz, 2040 Partners for Health, and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health.
Help Us Improve the Toolkit Library!
We have created a survey that allows visitors of the Toolkit Library to answer a few questions about the usefulness of the site and offer feedback on how we can improve it in the future. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey if you have thoughts on it.
