Disseminating Your Results and Ensuring Continuity

Introduction

You’ve finally completed your evaluation, and you’ve got lots of information about your initiative, about the perceptions and practices around your mental health issue in your community.

You can begin by using the information to improve your project, but there are many other people beyond your immediate group members and community partners who would be interested to hear about your results.

Sharing your results with a variety of people, both within and outside your community will help you gain the support and raise the awareness of a broad range of people - far beyond those you were able to reach through the day-to-day operation of your project.

This support and awareness, in turn, will provoke thinking and discussion about the mental health issue you’ve been working on, which will help you to nourish and maintain your efforts in the community.

This section gives you some guidelines on how to best present evaluation results to various audiences, and how to decide what those audiences will be. We also discuss ways of sustaining the work of your initiative and making it part of the ongoing life of the community.

6.1 Disseminating Your Results >

Acknowledgements

Developed with the support and help of the Mental Health Promotion Unit of Health Canada.