College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta
This website provides information and resources to effectively communicate with decision-makers in government and other institutions.
https://www.nurses.ab.ca/about/what-is-carna/policy-priorities-and-research/advocacy-toolkit
The Vancouver Citizens Committee
This website offers an extensive guide for those interested in community-building and grassroots organization. In the guide, you will find many sections, such as Forming a Core Group, to help understand the importance of convening a group and Planning and Acting, to outline the considerations for planning and implementing a specific objective or a policy change.
The Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement
A website devoted to community engagement and building capacity to implement social change from the ground-up. The resource library has a variety of guides related to engagement, capacity building and community learning.
Heart Health Resource Centre
This 12-page newsletter provides insight from long-time policy advocates on tactics for encouraging
policy change. This edition of the newsletter is specifically focused on influencing decision-makers to encourage policy change.
http://www.hclinkontario.ca/images/Uploaded_files/2011/atheart_InfluencingDecisionMakers.pdf
Public Health Agency of Canada
This document provides an overview of the economics of prevention in Canada and serves as a useful backgrounder for those working with evidence to illustrate the benefits of healthy public policy.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
This webpage includes several resources that can be used by a policy maker to guide the use of social media to promote a policy and policy development.
The World Health Organization
Developed by the World Health Organization, this webpage provides a detailed account of the complex factors, ranging from transportation and housing to industry and urbanization that interact to influence human health.
Public Health Agency of Canada
This webpage introduces readers to a population health perspective and outlines the determinants (environmental, economic, political, social, etc.) that work together to impact the health of Canadians.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Part of a larger body of work, this chapter on media advocacy includes useful information on framing advocacy messages to meet your policy goals.
For additional resources on framing advocacy messages, see the resource section on media advocacy.
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/stateandcommunity/counter-marketing/pdfs/chapter9.pdf
