Live Well PEI
Live Well PEI is the official brand and voice of the Chief Public Health Office's Health Promotion Unit. Through this website and social media channels it aims to provide research and evidence, share information and resources, and engage community in conversation and action to empower individuals and improve the conditions and risk factors that impact health.
The brand focuses on chronic disease prevention through five main sub-brands that address modifiable risk factors: Breathe Well, Choose Well, Eat Well, Feel Well, and Move Well.
Live Well PEI Design Phase Project
This project is made possible through funding by the Public Health Agency of Canada Healthy Canadians and Communities Fund and the Government of PEI, Department of Health and Wellness (Chief Public Health Office), Health PEI, and SPOR Evidence Alliance, and time invested by other government departments, non-governmental organizations, and community members.
- Goals of the Project
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The Live Well PEI Design Phase Project determined how the Chief Public Health Office can help community groups to develop, implement and sustain community action to prevent chronic disease.
More specifically, this project looked at how this goal can be achieved through interactive online tools, resources and services, that would be added to this website, as well as grants to support community health promotion initiatives.
- Project Methodology
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The Live Well PEI Design Phase Project used a framework for developing public health interventions called Six Steps in Quality Intervention Development (6SQuID).
6SQuID Steps:
Step 1: Define and understand the issue and its causes
Step 2: Clarify which casual or contextual factors are modifiable and have greatest potential for change
Step 3: Identify how to bring about change
Step 4: Identify how to deliver the change
Step 5: Test and refine the proposed solution on a small scale
Step 6: Collect enough evidence that the solution works to justify rigorous evaluation and/or implementation
- Community Engagement
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The Live Well PEI Design Phase Project used several different approaches to engage community throughout the project. These approaches included:
- Informing community by providing information about the project and outputs from the project using this webpage.
- Consulting community by obtaining community feedback through an evaluation survey and evaluation focus groups.
- Involving community through community workshops to ensure that community concerns, preferences, and goals are understood and considered throughout the project.
- Collaborating with community organizations as a member of the project team, which means these organizations are involved in decision-making.
- Empowering community through the project's main output by providing tools, resources, services and grant funding that will empower community groups to lead health promotion initiatives.
- Project Reports & Findings
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6SQuID Step 1: The opportunity that resulted in this project
6SQuID Steps 1 & 2: Identification of key enablers which will improve community groups and organizations capacity to improve health and wellness
6SQuID Step 3: Community granting programs rapid review:
- Full report: Rapid Review: What is known about how the components of community-driven health promotion? (French)
- Peer reviewed paper: Mobilizing community-driven health promotion through community granting programs: a rapid systematic review
6SQuID Step 3: How this intervention will lead to change (Theory of Change)
6SQuID Step 4: What We Heard and What We Are Doing: Redesign of the Live Well PEI (LWPEI) website and community granting program
Stay tuned for reports and resources that will be added here!