Top 10 Lists of Online resources!
Here are our Top 10 most popular resources in a variety of topic areas. Feel free to also browse our print publications, or see our entire online database of downloadable publications.
1. STARTING AND SUSTAINING SELF-HELP GROUPS
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2. Finding the Right Group for You
3. How to Start and Maintain and Self-Help Group
4. Matrix Tool: Comparing Self Help to Professionally-Led Support Groups
6. Group Co-Facilitation, 5 pages
7. Three elements for new facilitators, 8 pages, downloadable
8. Confidentiality in Self-Help Support Groups
9. Confidentiality Resource Kit
10. Help Make Smoke-Free Living Part of our Healthier Lifestyles
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Frameworks and Skills for "Keeping Groups on Track"
Understanding Self-Help and Starting a Peer Support Group
Contact List for Maternal, Child and Family Health Programs Using Self-Help Strategies
Inventory of Manuals for Starting and Facilitating Self-Help Groups and Peer Support Programs
Families and Self-Help/Mutual Aid
Self Help 101:You are not alone
Self Help Facts and Definitions
Toronto Star Article - You Needn't Go It Alone
2. INTEGRATING SELF-HELP STRATEGIES INTO HEALTH PROMOTION WORK
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1. Self Help and Health Promotion
2. Integrating Self-Help Strategies in Your Health Promotion Work
3. Tips for the Helping Professional: Exploring your role in the world of self-help
4. Self-help Groups: Moving from Professional Leadership to Mutual Support
5. Matrix Tool: Comparing Self Help to Professionally-Led Support Groups
6. Self-Help models community-based health promotion
7. Frameworks and Skills for "Keeping Groups on Track"
8. Self-Help/Peer Support Strategies in Maternal, Newborn and Family Health, 16 page PDF
9. Workplace Health Promotion Includes Self-Help
10. Working with Health Promotion's Informal Economy
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Confidentiality in Self-Help Support Groups
3 elements for new facilitators, 8 pages, downloadable
Group Co-Facilitation, 5 pages
Contact List for Maternal, Child and Family Health Programs Using Self-Help Strategies
Leadership Handbook (with a powerpoint workbook)
Making it Work – 19 page pdf, SH groups, making it work (from workshop)
Self Help Stories: Survivor helps self by helping others (Kitchener Newspaper story, 2002)
Resources for Muslim Women and Families
3. Using SH in Chronic Disease Prevention
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1. Health Whisperers - Breast Health amoung Newcomers
2. Help Make Smoke-Free Living Part of our Healthier Lifestyles
3. Healthy Ways to Prevent Stroke in Your Community: A Facilitator's Guide, 76 page PDF
4. Healthy Ways to Prevent Stroke: A Guide for You, 89 page PDF
5. Empowering Stroke Prevention: A Toolkit for Building Partnership with Communities
NOTE: a major resource, 60 page toolkit with appendices
6. Study: Recovering Alcoholics Effective in Helping Others
4. Maternal/Child Health Promotion
Top Listings
1. Self Help Strategies in Maternal, Newborn and Family Health: A Needs Assessment
2. Contact List for Maternal, Child and Family Health Programs Using Self-Help Strategies
3. Self-Help/Peer Support Strategies in Maternal, Newborn and Family Health, 16 page PDF
4. Peer Support/Self-Help in Maternal, Newborn and Family Health: Highlights from the Literature
5. Study of the effect of peer support on postpartum depression
6. When New Life Arrives: Self-Help Strategies for Family Health
5. Research and Articles
Top Ten
1. Inventory of Manuals for Starting and Facilitating Self-Help Groups and Peer Support Programs
2. Stroke Prevention and Self Help Literature Review
3. Study of the effect of peer support on postpartum depression
4. Study of the Effectiveness of a Family-to-Family Education Program
5. Study on the volunteer experiences of New Canadians.
6. Study: Recovering Alcoholics Effective in Helping Others
7. Research about self-help 1979-1993
8. Self-Help/Peer Support Strategies in Maternal, Newborn and Family Health, 16 page PDF
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Self-Help/Mutual Aid/Peer support/Adult Education/Empowerment and (Return to) the Workplace
Stopping Stokes with Self-Help?
Peer Support/Self-Help in Maternal, Newborn and Family Health: Highlights from the Literature
6. Les ressources en français
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Conseils pratiques pour le professionnel aidant
Groupes de soutien: Passage d'un leadership professionnel au système d'entraide
Guide pour former et animer en groupe communautaire
L'entraide et la promotion de la santé
L'intégration de stratégies d'entraide
La confidentialité et les groupes d'entraide
Le manuel sur le partage du leadership
Outil comparatif - gestion de groupe d'entraide et gestion par un professionnel
Promouvoir la santé et l’autonomie par l’entraide
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