From Research Insights to Community Impact: A Dissemination Toolkit for Community-Engaged Research Teams
How to Use This Toolkit
This toolkit is a collection of resources, guides, and recommendations for community-engaged dissemination and communication. Community-engaged research teams can use these modules at the beginning stages of forming their writing team, during the writing process, and through the publication and dissemination stages. Download and use each module in order, or select only the module that applies to your team’s current stage in the writing and dissemination process.
What Does This Toolkit Do?
Puts YOU in charge: This toolkit can guide you and your team in creating dissemination products.
Gives YOU the tools: This toolkit includes a wide range of resources and examples you can tailor to your own needs. These are not set rules, and you can apply what you need to your situation.
Gets YOU collaborating: This toolkit includes examples of group exercises for you to complete with your team, helping you build relationships and collaborate.
Changes the story: There is more than one way to tell a story using research data. This toolkit provides examples of community-engaged dissemination products that may be a good fit for the story you want to tell.
Although all steps are important for all roles, the star icons below suggest sections that may be of special interest to each role:
Community: Community partners or members involved in research activities
Academic: Academic partners or staff involved in research activities
Team Lead: Team members leading key writing and dissemination tasks
Modules
Module 1: Build a Writing Team
Tips and tools for building a strong writing team, while considering team members’ time and energy, elevating lived experiences, and highlighting strengths.
Community Academic Team Leads
Module 2: Identify Focus
How to frame your dissemination products for your research by thinking about what you want to say, how you’d like to inform the field, and lessons you’d like to share with your audiences.
Community Academic
Key Terms
Terms you should know as you read and use the Toolkit.
Community Academic Team Leads
Download Key Terms (PDF)
This digital toolkit was developed by CEACR and is funded by NIH CEAL under contract number OT2HL158287. The opinions expressed are those of CEACR and the contributing experts and do not represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, the NIH, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), or the U.S. Government.
Some data used in this toolkit was funded in part under grant number 1U18HS029905-01 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), HHS. The authors are solely responsible for its contents, findings, and conclusions, which do not necessarily represent the views of AHRQ. Readers should not interpret any statement in this report as an official position of AHRQ or of HHS. None of the authors has any affiliation or financial involvement that conflicts with the material presented in this report.