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Understanding Evidence

Activity Number: WB2082
Origination Date: March 8, 2013
Expiration Date: March 8, 2015
Format:
Enduring Activity

Program Description

Understanding Evidence is the first online tool of its kind. This free, online resource offers local practitioners and others working to prevent violence knowledge and resources for using evidence in their decision-making processes. Understanding Evidence is meant to support critical thinking skills in practitioners to help them make evidence-informed decisions around violence prevention.

Course Objectives:

Specifically, upon completion of Understanding Evidence, the learner will be able to:

  1. Define the three types of evidence involved in evidence based decision-making;
  2. Identify standards of rigor across the key dimensions that make up the best available research evidence;
  3. Identify sources of and ways to collect best available research evidence, contextual evidence, and experiential evidence;
  4. Identify key stages and characteristics of an evidence based decision-making process.

Target Audience:

The primary audiences for Understanding Evidence are technical assistance providers and local violence prevention practitioners. Secondary audience members include federal project officers, researchers/program evaluators, and policymakers/decision makers. There are two user groups for the online resource:

  1. Practitioners seeking general information about evidence and how to make evidence-based decisions in violence prevention
  2. Practitioners or administrators seeking accreditation for completing the training.

Location

http://vetoviolence.org/evidence

Presenters

Carter, Shondra L.; Business Certificate, Community Member, Parent Teacher Association
Foshee, Vangie; PhD, Professor, Department of Health Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gorman-Smith, Deborah; PhD, Director, Chicago Center for Youth Violence, Senior Research Fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Hmurovich, James M.; MS Ed, President & CEO, Prevent Child Abuse America
Jaffe, Gayle C.; MSW, MPH, Senior Prevention Specialist, Suicide Prevention Research Center
Lee, Angelita; Research Assistant, Celebrating Life,
Lee, David S.; MPH, Director of Prevention Services, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Manager PreventConnect
Lockhart, Mariko; MPA, Director, Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative
Mackin, Juiliette R.; PhD, Senior Research Associate, NPC Research
Obinna, Jennifer L.K.; PhD, CEO, World Bridge Research, LLC
Spivak, Howard; MD, Deputy Director and Chief of Staff, National Institute of Justice
Spiva Collins, Valerie; MS Ed, DHSc, Training & Technical Assistance Supervisor, FRIENDS National Resource Center
Weiss, Billie P.; MPH, Partner, National UNITY Project, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health
Whitaker, Daniel J.; PhD, Professor of Public Health, Georgia State University

Course Developers

Understanding Evidence is based upon a curriculum developed by the Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Understanding Evidence was developed for the web by:

Sandra Cashman, BS, MS; Public Health Advisor, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Diane M. Hall, BA, MSEd, PhD, Lead Behavioral Scientist Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sharon Hall, RN, PhD, Nurse Planner, CE Consultant, Health Education Specialist, Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Helen Harber Singer, BA, MPH, Health Scientist, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Richard Puddy, BA, MA, MPH, PhD, Branch Chief, Prevention & Translation Branch, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sally Thigpen, BA, MPA, Health Scientist, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Natalie Wilkins, BA, MA, PhD, Behavioral Scientist, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Technical Requirements: On the Web, the user will need a computer with an Internet connection and access the course using Internet Explorer 6 or higher; Firefox 3 or higher; or Safari 3 or higher.

Accreditation Statements:

CNE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This activity provides 1.0 contact hours.

CEU: The CDC has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102. The CDC is authorized by IACET to offer 0.1 ANSI/IACET CEU's for this program.

CECH:Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a designated provider of Continuing Education Contact Hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designed for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.0 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced level continuing education contact hours available are 1.0. CDC provider number GA0082.

DISCLOSURE: In compliance with continuing education requirements, all presenters must disclose any financial or other associations with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters as well as any use of unlabeled product(s) or product(s) under investigational use.

CDC, our planners, and our content experts wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters. Planners have reviewed content to ensure there is no bias.

Presentations will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use.

CDC does not accept commercial support.

Contact:

UnderstandingEvidence@cdc.gov

Support/Funding: This program was developed solely by CDC.

METHOD OF PARTICIPATION:


You may participate in the educational activity by viewing the program information above.

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Fees: No fees are charged for CDC’s CE activities.