9/22/2014 Translating Knowledge from the RTC on Community Living: I Seem To Be a Verb Val Renault, M.A. RTC on Community Living Retreat Sept. 15-16, 2014 Houston, Texas Research & Training Center on Community Living Guided by NIDRR For our federal funder, knowledge translation (KT) consists of: • Dissemination • Training • Technical Assistance (TA) • Utilization Research & Training Center on Community Living 1
9/22/2014 Outcome: Utilization How We See It Focused TA audiences (Technical Assistance) Selected formats Input: Stakeholder Involvement Input: Evaluation Training Specific audiences Selected formats Dissemination Widest group of audiences Widest variety of formats and methods Principles: Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning Foundation: Knowledge Gained from Research Research & Training Center on Community Living Dissemination Audiences (Who): All stakeholders, potential knowledge users AND general public. TA Formats (What, How, When, Where): Widest variety of methods – website, Training newsletters, email blasts, fact sheets, issue briefs, infographics, motion Dissemination graphics, videos, social media, scholarly articles, conference presentations, Bridging Meeting, Summit or State of Science conference, etc. Research & Training Center on Community Living 2
9/22/2014 Dissemination Progress to Date • 21 conference presentations, including: ̶ NCIL and APRIL annual conferences – Consumers, CIL staff and other practitioners, advocates ̶ American Public Health Association annual conference – Researchers, advocates ̶ National Home & Community-Based Services Conference – Policymakers, practitioners, advocates ̶ NAARTC – Researchers, policymakers, advocates ̶ American Copy Editors Society – Journalists, editors, communications professionals Research & Training Center on Community Living Dissemination Progress (cont.) • Nine Peer-reviewed Articles in Journals Including: ̶ Disability and Health Journal ̶ Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ̶ Association of College and Research Libraries Annual Conference Proceedings ̶ Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Six of those in D&H Journal Research & Training Center on Community Living 3
9/22/2014 Dissemination Progress (cont.) • Email blasts and newsletters: ̶ Messages on new products and resources – NCIL, APRIL, Disability Organizations, etc. ̶ RTC/CL newsletter – Partners, SCAP, NIDRR, NARIC, ACL, etc. (6 issues) ̶ Independent Living Matters newsletter – CIL staff, SILC staff, subscribers (6 issues) ̶ Social media: 135 FB likes 219 Twitter followers Research & Training Center on Community Living Dissemination Example: Anatomy of a Web Hit • Two housing infographics produced in July 2014 on secondary data project R-1, Home and Community Accessibility in the American Housing Survey (AHS) • Publicized through e-mail blasts Research & Training Center on Community Living 4
9/22/2014 Dissemination: Anatomy of a Web Hit • NCIL • AUCD • APRIL Website Email Shared by • Partners & • AAHD Four different announce- SCAP other orgs pages/URLS • NASAUD hits ment • NARIC • NARIC • IL contacts Research & Training Center on Community Living HOUSING INFOGRAPHICS July 2014 - September 2014 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 1-Jul-14 1-Aug-14 1-Sep-14 R1 Housing Infographics R1 U.S. Housing R1 Description R1 Rural Housing Research & Training Center on Community Living 5
9/22/2014 Accessibility: A KT Foundation Principles: Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning Research & Training Center on Community Living Training Audiences: Specific individuals or groups for training as appropriate by TA project. Training Formats: Online modules, webinars, tele- Dissemination conferences, face-to-face Research & Training Center on Community Living 6
̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ 9/22/2014 Training Progress • Three webinars and/or trainings delivered to: CIL Staff, OTs, Schools of OT SEDL (Southwest Educational Development Laboratory) KU Counseling and Psychological Services • Trainings as part of interventions (completed, in process or to come): R-7, Developing a Health Promotion Assistance Tool R-8, Development and Testing of an Informal PA Training Program R-9, Home Usability Project R-10, Community Engagement Initiative Knowledge Transfer (KT) Project R-11, Building Capacity for Full Community Participation Research & Training Center on Community Living Technical Assistance Audiences: Technical Focused – training recipients Assistance & other knowledge users. Training Formats: Email, phone, webinars, Dissemination teleconferences, face-to- face. Research & Training Center on Community Living 7
9/22/2014 TA Examples Information or testimony provided to: • New York State Legislature • NCIL Housing Subcommittee • National Council on Disability • Executive Director, Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns • Consultant for Pew Charitable Trusts Research & Training Center on Community Living And Finally: Use! We can’t trace all use Outcome: Utilization but ... TA We can encourage and Training monitor utilization: • Practices implemented in Dissemination CILs, communities • Information applied in policy or advocacy efforts • Research articles cited Research & Training Center on Community Living 8
̶ 9/22/2014 We Don’t Know When Exposure Means Utilization For example, these outcomes of the Bridging Meeting: • Our secondary data fact sheets and first infographic were submitted to U.S. Senate HELP committee by Pimjai Sudsawad • An early analysis of the American Housing Survey data was submitted to HUD by Charlie Lakin Research & Training Center on Community Living Lessons Learned • We need to be strategic at the same time as we cast our seeds to the wind. Example: The unknown value of You Tube. In our previous center we produced eight videos which received a total of 3,090 hits. • “ Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler” (attributed to Einstein) • Put older adults/aging in the picture. • Get feedback from users before producing products. Research & Training Center on Community Living 9
̶ 9/22/2014 Understand there is mar K e T ing in KT at the dissemination level. Free! Research & Training Center on Community Living Next Steps: How You Can Help • Serve on our KT consumer-empowered team Or identify people who can help us review for both content and accessibility (blind, low vision) • Consult with individual interventions • Identify more audiences to reach – Who else would benefit from our work? ̶ What names can you provide? ̶ What actions can you take? Research & Training Center on Community Living 10
9/22/2014 “The Plural of Anecdote Is Data” - Unknown PBS-quotee Research & Training Center on Community Living We are generating a great deal of data to share. If you can help us identify the, anecdotes, we will also tell individual human stories. Deshae Lott, courtesy of Jeffrey Sadow Research & Training Center on Community Living 11
9/22/2014 Implications In our KT, we clarify the implications from each intervention and the Center as a whole for each of these target audiences: • For consumers • For practitioners and advocates • For policymakers • For researchers Research & Training Center on Community Living Acknowledgements • Research partners and staff of RTC/CL • KU Life Span Institute Design Team • Chris Owens and Roger Frischenmeyer, Prairie Independent Living Resource Center • SEDL (Southwest Educational Development Laboratory) The contents of this presentation were developed under a grant from the Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) grant number H133B110006. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Research & Training Center on Community Living 12
9/22/2014 Contact Valerie (Val) Renault Communications Coordinator Research and Training Center on Independent Living (RTC/IL) The University of Kansas 4089 Dole Center 1000 Sunnyside Ave. Lawrence, KS 66045 785-864-0575 vrenault@ku.edu http://www.rtcil.org/ Research & Training Center on Community Living 13
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