Submit a Practice - Indigenous Track - Best Practices Network

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Assessment Criteria

Respond to all six questions in this section. Practices will be assigned a rating from one (low) to four (high) for each criteria. Practices that are assigned a total score of 16 or higher out of 24 will be designated the ‘Ways Tried and True’ best practice category.

1) Community-based(Required)

(See ratings on p. 12 in the WTT Guidebook)

Describe how Indigenous stakeholders (community members, service providers, community leaders, Elders) are involved in the planning, design, delivery, adaptation, and evaluation of the practice.

2) Wholistic Approach(Required)

(See ratings on p. 13 in the WTT Guidebook)

Describe how the practice addresses multiple issues from a wholistic approach on four dimensions:

1) Wellness: mind (knowledge development, awareness, skills), body (physical activity, nutrition), emotion (relationships, healing), spirit (mental wellness, confidence, self‐esteem, coping) (e.g., medicine wheel model may be used)

2) Implementation environments (e.g., school, community, home, workplace, businesses)

3) Nature of target group (e.g., children, youth, Elders, families, community members or leaders, organizations)

4) Involvement of cross sector departments (e.g., education, health, governance, justice, social services)

3) Integration of Indigenous Cultural Knowledge(Required)

(See ratings on p. 13 in the WTT Guidebook)

Describe how the practice formally addresses and incorporates the values, culture, shared experiences, and principles of the community or group in which it operates.

4) Building on Community Strengths and Needs(Required)

(See ratings on p. 14 in the WTT Guidebook)

Describe how the practice recognizes community capacity or readiness (identifying strengths and weaknesses within the implementation environment) at the outset and builds-in mechanisms to leverage strengths and fill gaps through the implementation process.

5) Partnership and Collaboration(Required)

(See ratings on p. 15 in the WTT Guidebook)

Describe how the practice is supported by other organizations or institutions within and/or external to the community (federal, provincial, municipal government, NGOs, institutions). The emphasis is on collaborative approaches to addressing needs or issues (funders are only counted as partners if they provide more than funding to the relationship).

6) Effectiveness(Required)

(See ratings on p. 16 in the WTT Guidebook)

Demonstrate that the practice has achieved significant (substantive or statistical) positive intended and/or unintended outcomes among target groups (e.g., program participants, communities, organizations, and/or partners).

The term ‘substantive significance’ is applied broadly to mean more than the quantitative effect size but inclusive of qualitative or practical considerations such as cultural, political, or economic significance. Stated another way the substantive significance refers to the degree to which the findings are significant within the community and context in which they are observed.

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