>> So community practice is I
think a newer term in the field
of public health and
prevention, but it's very much
like how it sounds;
it's bringing together
who are either doing a similar
type of work, working on,
you know, the same topic or
using the same type of strategy,
and connecting them a
lot of times virtually,
so through either Web-based
events or conference calls
or through list serves, and
being able to impart resources
and support and some guidance
that way, build their capacity
that way, but also make a lot of
peer-to-peer connections, too.
>> Overview of experiential
evidence.
Experiential evidence provides a
nuanced, distinctive perspective
to the decision-making
process and provides guidance
in the form of real world
experience with the stakeholders
and the setting for choosing
and implementing a
prevention strategy.
Experiential evidence works
with the best available
research evidence
on effective prevention
strategies
and contextual evidence
regarding the local setting
to strengthen the possibility
for a prevention strategy's
successful implementation.