Development and Evaluation of a Train-the-Trainer Workshop for Hong Kong Community Social Service Agency Staff.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Capacity building approaches are useful in large-scale community-based health promotion interventions. However, models to guide and evaluate capacity building among social service agency staff in community settings are rare in the literature. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a 1-day (7 h) train-the-trainer (TTT) workshop for the "Enhancing Family Well-Being Project". The workshop aimed at equipping staff from different community agencies with the knowledge and skills to design, implement, and evaluate positive psychology-based interventions for their clients in Sham Shui Po, an over-crowded and low-income district in Hong Kong.

Methods

The current TTT extended and improved on our previous successful model by adding research and evaluation m

SUBMITTER: Zhou Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5303710 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature