Planning
Planning is a series of decision from general and strategic decision to specific operational details, based on gathering and analysis of a wide range of information.
The Heart Health Resource Centre offers a number of publications and resources that will help in your planning efforts.
Guides and workbooks
"@ a glance"
"@ a glance" gives you tips, practical tools and a glossary to assist you in your program planning activities. Helpful resources are also profiled.
OHHP-Taking Action for Healthy Living Reference Material, 2003 (PDF)
This document, prepared by the Heart Health Resource Centre, represents the collaborative input o fmany local and provincial partners in OHHP. This Reference Material provides additional information intended to further assist OHHP Coordinators and Community Partnerships (CPs) in the completion of the "OHHP-Taking Action for Healthy Living" submission package..
Comprehensive Heart Health Program Planning Workbook, 1998
This workbook, developed at the beginning of the Ontario Heart Health Program Phase I, serves as an excellent foundation document for heart health promotion. It presents steps for a community undertaking long-range heart health planning as well as practical examples from the Heart Health demonstration sites. It links the intervention ‘cube’ and logic model concepts with comprehensive planning.
To access the section(s) you are interested in, click the active link below.
- Table of Contents
- section 1 - Purpose and Overview
- Section 2 - A Model for Comprehensive Heart Health Program Planning
- Section 3 - Comprehensive Heart Health Program Planning Steps
- Section 4 - Glossary of Terms
- Appendix 1: Comprehensive Program Planning Worksheets
- Appendix 2: Contents at a Glance, List of Leading and Supporting Interventions
- Appendix 3: Interventions for Dissemination, Summary of Analysis
- Appendix 4: Outline of a Community Planning Proces
Comprehensive Program Planning Facilitator's Guide, 1998
This guide highlights a process that could be used
by a facilitator to assist a Community
Partnership or sub-committee in completing
the five program planning steps outlined in the workbook
(above). Many tools have been included
to assist facilitators in leading groups
through these steps. Additional resources
have also been identified for facilitators who feel they would
benefit from this.
This is a companion document to the Comprehensive Heart Health Program Planning Workbook.
To access the section(s) you are interested in, click the active link below.
- Table of Contents
- Section 1 - Introduction
- Section 2 - Steps for Comprehensive Program Planning
- Step 1 - Taking Stock
- Taking Stock Presentation
- Step 2 - Setting Direction
- Setting Direction Presentation and Diagrams
- Step 3 - Action Planning
- Action Planning Presentation and Diagrams
- Step 4 - Implementation
- Implementation Presentation and Diagrams
- Step 5 - Planning for Evaluation
- Planning for Evaluation Presentation and Diagrams
- Section 3 - Available Supports through the Resource System
- Section 4 - Appendices
@heart newsletters
Feature Newsletter on Planning, Vol. 1, No. 4 - Fall 1998 (HTML)
The focus of this issue of @heart is on program planning. It is meant to assist specifically with the creation of the four year plans required of all of Ontario's Heart Health coalitions and, over the next several years, for the annual plans and those related to planning interventions. The stories, tips and resources that are featured here should be of use to many partners within each coalition so sharing the newsletter with others in the community is encouraged.
Heart Health Project Identity, Vol. 1, No. 3 - Winter 1998 (HTML)
The focus of this issue of @heart is on project identity. In addition, resources and "happenings" from the field are included to assist with your community efforts.
Reports and documents
Heart Health Project Activities: The Ontario Heart Health Program April 1999 to March 2000, July 1999 [PDF, 29 pages]
This document synthesizes the planned activities of the 36 OHHP sites for the second year of the program (April 1999 - March 2000). It was compiled based upon the information provided by site activity plans.
" Our Stories" Heart Health Action Program: The Experiences and Learnings of the Heart Health Action Program Demonstration Sites, November 1996
An intended companion to the Final Evaluation Report, this 79 page report is a collaborative effort of the volunteers and staff who initiated, developed and maintained the interventions at the five heart health demonstration sites.
Tools and samples
Examples of Coalition Logic Models
| Healthy at Heart Elgin - Elgin St. Thomas | Excel | |
| Health Action - Haldimand-Norfolk | Word | |
| Healthy Living Niagara - Regional Niagara | ||
| Take Heart - North Bay and District | Word |
Training workshops
- Heart Health Orientation (on-going)
- Phase II Plans Support Workshop, 2004
- Faces of the CUBE: Phase II Heart Health Planning, 2003
- Lay of the Land …Exploring HP Resources, Services and Strategies,
2002
