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Getting Your Message Out There: Using Media Effectively to Achieve Your Objectives
Start: 9:30 am
End: 4:30 pm

An interesting, interactive workshop for non-profit sector managers
and activists who need strong, clear messages to reach a variety of audiences.

This workshop will help you to understand and deal with the media , and choose the right medium for the message.

Participants will learn how to strategize, develop a message and disseminate it to the appropriate media. Specifically, to:

  1. Define your target audiences;
  2. Develop a message -- making it clear and newsworthy
  3. Frame your message for public speaking or a speech.
  4. Put your message across in print materials including brochures and e-mails, newsletters and blogs
  5. Get your message out via press releases and interviews and letters to the editor
  6. Shape your message for radio PSAs and or video production

Who Should Attend:

Activists in community development and communications and non-profit sector managers

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Introduction to Community-Based Research Partnerships
Start: 9:30 am
End: 4:30 pm

So what is all this talk about 'community-based research'? Why the push towards partnerships? What do you have to gain? This interactive workshop is designed as an introduction to the essential concepts of community-based research (CBR) and as a foundation for more advanced workshops. It will also focus on the planning, implementation and maintenance of CBR partnerships.

Participants Will Learn:

  • definitions of CBR
  • the values and principles of CBR
  • barriers and facilitating factors
  • advantages of CBR as an approach to research
  • strategies for partnership development and monitoring over the duration of a CBR project.

Who Should Attend:

  • people who are new to CBR
  • people who have some experience but wish to renew or refresh their knowledge of essential CBR concepts
  • researchers interested in partnership research initiatives.
  • front line practitioners.
  • community members.
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How To Run A Focus Group
Start: 9:30 am
End: 4:30 pm

CBR104 Workshop is Full - Registration Closed

Focus groups are a great way to gather information from a group. They can be used for program planning, needs assessments, evaluations, preliminary research, defining research questions, learning more about a topic, community development, etc. However, in order to ensure that useful data emerges, care needs to be taken in how the data is collected. Come and learn the basics of how to set up an interview guide and moderate discussions. Participants will have a chance to role play the dynamics of a focus group and learn tips about how to work with "difficult" groups more effectively.

Participants Will Learn:

  • Developing interview guides
  • Moderation tips
  • Strategies for working with "difficult" groups

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Introduction To Survey Data Analysis with Excel
Start: 9:30 am
End: 4:30 pm

Signups closed for this event

For those with experience collecting surveys or program data who are seeking more sophistication in the area of analysis. Learn how to use excel to graph and organize data for analytical purposes.

Participants Will Learn:

  • Introduction to descriptive statistics
  • How data are organized for analytic purposes
  • Introduction to statistical software (Excel)
  • Graphing your data
  • Using statistics to describe your data
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Writing Effective Community-Based Research Proposals
Start: 9:30 am
End: 4:30 pm

Writing full research proposals can be a stressful and tiresome endeavour if you are ill-prepared. However, the right tools and approaches can assist your research team in tackling the various components required in a proposal. This is your chance to plan the work ahead and answer some of the tough questions up front. This interactive workshop is designed to provide advice and assistance in preparing community-based research proposals.

Participants Will Learn:

  • reviewing literature
  • assessing community research priorities
  • developing research questions and objectives
  • methodology and analysis plan
  • setting budgets and timelines
  • handling the ethics review
  • and discussing action outcomes

Who Should Attend:

  • people seeking research funding
  • researchers
  • front line practitioners
  • community members
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