View: The UPenn Collaborative Interim Report: Responses to Presentations and Website Resources

Date: 05-28-2009
Issues: *All CI Related Issues*
Link: Knowledge Translation_website version.pdf

The goals of the UPenn Collaborative are to conduct state-of-the-art research to promote community participation and to insure that its research reaches varied constituencies (consumers and families, providers and policy makers) that can translate emerging research into practice. Two components of the Center’s knowledge translation activities - personal presentations and the Center’s website (www.upennrrtc.org) - have played a key role in the Center’s efforts to promote community participation. To help assess the impact of its work, the Center has consistently requested that participants at presentations and individuals who download materials from the website complete an assessment of the relevance, usefulness, and impact of their contact. The Center developed this report to provide an overview of their responses, from contacts made between April 3, 2006 and October 1, 2008. Overall, the results of this preliminary assessment of respondents’ reactions to both presentations and materials provided by the UPenn Collaborative are very positive, encouraging the Collaborative to continue the balancing of presentations with the development of new resources on its increasingly popular website.