greater participant confidence for their role volunteer and paid roles – – including for experienced community development practitioners; enhanced knowledge and understanding of community development and related concepts; enhanced knowledge and understanding of the social determinants of health and of how this guides effective prioritisation of actions and resources; enhanced awareness of the context for the participant’s work or practice; affirmation of existing good practice; improved access to relevant evidence; improved understanding of the importance of measurement and demonstration of impact; enhanced personal and professional effectiveness particularly as a result of improved analytical skills supported by the reflective practice dimension of the Pathways to Health approach; benefits to participants’ organisations in terms of direct contribution to the achievement of organisational priorities as learning is applied in practice; expansion of personal and professional networks including opening up of access to policy and decision makers that participants would not normally have easy access to; new working relationships and examples of new work in partnership and joint projects; and increased motivation to use a community development approach to health. In forecasting the cascade effects of the Pathways to Health training, CDHN had originally estimated that each participant would have some level of positive impact on a further 9 or 10 people. In fact, the majority of the individuals profiled above have a sphere of influence which is considerably greater with the work of most impacting upon hundreds, as opposed to tens, of other individuals each year. This fact, coupled with the illustrations of how individual participants have indeed ‘put their learning to work’ indicates that Pathways to Health is having an impact beyond the initial training experience of the participants.
greater participant confidence for their role – volunteer and paid roles – including for experienced community development practitioners; enhanced knowledge and understanding of community development and related concepts; enhanced knowledge and understanding of the social determinants of health and of how this guides effective prioritisation of actions and resources; enhanced awareness of the context for the participant’s work or practice; affirmation of existing good practice; improved access to relevant evidence; improved understanding of the importance of measurement and demonstration of impact; enhanced personal and professional effectiveness particularly as a result of improved analytical skills supported by the reflective practice dimension of the Pathways to Health approach; benefits to participants’ organisations in terms of direct contribution to the achievement of organisational priorities as learning is applied in practice; expansion of personal and professional networks including opening up of access to policy and decision makers that participants would not normally have easy access to; new working relationships and examples of new work in partnership and joint projects; and increased motivation to use a community development approach to health. In forecasting the cascade effects of the Pathways to Health training, CDHN had originally estimated that each participant would have some level of positive impact on a further 9 or 10 people. In fact, the majority of the individuals profiled above have a sphere of influence which is considerably greater with the work of most impacting upon hundreds, as opposed to tens, of other individuals each year. This fact, coupled with the illustrations of how individual participants have indeed ‘put their learning to work’ indicates that Pathways to Health is having an impact beyond the initial training experience of the participants.
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