Common Challenges Encountered in Evaluating Health Behavior Interventions and Remedies
Lists challenges commonly encountered in evaluating health behavior interventions and possible remedies classified by the RE-AIM aspects (reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance).

Collaboration Math
This tool helps organizations from diverse disciplines work together. It enables them to better understand each other's perspectives and to identify both strengths and gaps in their partnership. It is designed to eliminate misconceptions, clarify the benefits of collaborative participation, determine what needs to be better understood, and identify key players that may be missing.

Developing a Logic Model or Theory of Change - Community Tool Box
This section of the Community Tool Box describes the definition, application, creation, effectiveness, benefits, and limitations of logic models.

The Eight Step Guide to Effective Coalition Building
A guideline for the process of coalition building to help advocates and practitioners on issues ranging from the appropriateness of a coalition, to membership selection and conducting ongoing evaluations.

Guidelines for Conducting a Stakeholder Analysis
The purpose of this document is to help policymakers, managers, and their working groups conduct an “objective” and systematic process for collecting and analyzing data about key health reform stakeholders.

Practical Solutions for Effective Translated Health Information
Clear communication is a cornerstone of patient safety and quality health care. Quality translated health materials can serve as valuable communications tools for both patients and providers, and can help to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality care.

Systems Analysis for Integrated Policy and Strategy
This document introduces systems thinking tools that are valuable at the early stages of conceptualizing and planning comprehensive policies for complex problems. Four tools are presented: stakeholder analysis, logic modeling, system dynamics modeling, and rapid reviews.

The Tension of Turf
This paper builds upon the Prevention Institute's initial coalition building paper Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide (referenced above), which focused on the coalition start-up process. After years of working with coalitions, the Prevention Institute has developed the current paper in response to something commonly witnessed within coalitions: turf struggle. Turf is a frequent problem that is often misunderstood. The paper discusses common types of turf struggles, reasons why they occur, and lists recommendations for limiting the negative aspects of turf.

Ten Elements of an Effective Dissemination Plan
This tool assists in answering questions related to the ten elements of effective dissemination planning.

Top Ten Dissemination Mistakes
Lists 10 mistakes that are commonly committed when disseminating evidence-based approaches and offers solutions for them.

Ways to Enhance RE-AIM Outcomes
Questions to ask of potential programs, classified by each of the 5 dimensions of RE-AIM, are provided along with possible solutions to enhance dissemination.

Will It Work Here?
A Decisionmaker’s Guide to Adopting Innovations
The Guide helps users determine if an innovation would be a good fit—or an appropriate stretch—for their health care organization by asking a series of questions. It links users to actionable Web-based tools and presents case studies that illustrate how other organizations have addressed these questions.