Training Modules and Guides

This guide was created in response to growing interest in using collaborative approaches to improve population health by embedding health considerations into decision-making processes across a broad array of sectors.
Learn how to conduct a SWOT Analysis to identify situational strengths and weaknesses, as well as opportunities and threats.
Learn how to prepare for, conduct, and use information from key informant interviews.
This guide provides tools and technologies for multisector collaboration.
This resource, from the American Cancer Society and the National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, may be used by coalitions and policy committees or task force groups to achieve their healthy community goals.
This guide can help organizations become effective policy advocates and educators for building community resilience.
This site supports work to increase the use of policy surveillance and legal mapping as tools for improving the nation’s health.
From the American Planning Association, this guide identifies policy ideas for local, state, and federally elected officials aimed at improving community health and quality of living through planning.
This training from the Region V Public Health Training Center uses policy and systems level advocacy goals as the focus of a communication strategy.
This online course introduces the use of policy evaluation in public health, teaches how to apply evaluation methods throughout a policy process and provides an understanding of how to apply the CDC Evaluation Framework.