CDCynergy Lite
(This reference is an abridged version of the CDCynergy health communication model.
For more detailed information, or to return to the tutorial, click on the phase titles.)
The key elements in this phase involve working with partners to:
  • Identify and define health problems that may be addressed by your program interventions.
  • Examine and/or conduct necessary research to describe the problems.
  • Assess factors and variables that can affect the project’s direction, including strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT).
 
 
The key elements in this phase involve working with partners to:
  • List causes of each problem you plan to address.
  • Develop goals for each problem.
  • Consider strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and ethics of health 1) engineering, 2) communication/education, 3) policy/enforcement, and 4) community service intervention options.
  • Select the types of intervention(s) that should be used to address the problem(s).
 
 
The key elements in this phase involve working with partners to:
  • Decide whether communication is needed as a dominant intervention and/or as support for other intervention(s).
    • If communication is used as a dominant intervention, list possible audiences.
    • If communication is to be used to support Community Services, Engineering, and/or Policy/Enforcement interventions, list possible audiences to be reached in support of each selected intervention.
  • Conduct necessary audience research to segment intended audiences.
  • Select audience segment(s) and write communication objectives for each audience segment.
  • Write a creative brief to provide guidance in selecting appropriate concepts/messages, settings, activities, and materials.
 
 
The key elements in this phase involve working with partners to:
Develop and test concepts, messages, settings, channel-specific activities, and materials with intended audiences.
  • Finalize and briefly summarize a communication implementation plan. The plan should include:
    • Background and justification, including SWOT and ethics analyses,
    • Audiences,
    • Communication objectives,
    • Messages,
    • Settings and channels for conveying your messages,
    • Activities (including tactics, materials, and other methods),
    • Available partners and resources,
    • Tasks and timeline (including persons responsible for each task, date for completion of each task, resources required to deliver each task, and points at which progress will be checked),
    • Internal and external communication plan,
    • Budget.
  • Produce materials for dissemination.
 
 
The key elements in this phase involve working with partners to:
  • Determine stakeholder information needs.
    • Decide which types of evaluation (e.g., implementation, reach, effects) are needed to satisfy stakeholder information needs.
    • Identify sources of information and select data collection methods.
    • Formulate an evaluation design that illustrates how methods will be applied to gather credible information.
    • Develop a data analysis and reporting plan.
    • Finalize and briefly summarize an evaluation implementation plan. The plan should include:
      • Stakeholder questions,
      • Intervention standards,
      • Evaluation methods and design,
      • Data analysis and reporting,
      • Tasks and timeline (including persons responsible for each task, date for completion of each task, resources required to deliver each task, and points at which progress will be checked),
      • Internal and external communication plan,
      • Budget.
 
 
The key elements in this phase involve working with partners to:
  • Integrate, execute, and manage communication and evaluation plans.
  • Document feedback and lessons learned.
  • Modify program components based on feedback.
  • Disseminate lessons learned and evaluation findings.
 

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