The Six Thinking Hats of

Evidence-based Community

Injury Prevention and Safety

Promotion Programs

Dale Hanson

Evidence-based Practice

Practice-based Evidence

SMART Goals

Specific

Measurable

Achievable

Realistic

Time specified

DUMB Goals

Dreamy

Utopian

Motivating

Bold

Good Community Development Practicethat Builds Community Capacity

Comprehensive & sustainable

Coordinated

Networking

Good Public Health Practicethat’s informed by sound evidence

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• Your name?

• Where are you from?

• What was the most effective community-

based injury prevention / safety promotion

program you have been involved with?

• What made the program effective?

• What was the biggest challenge you faced?

Introduce yourself

• Are there any other important

characteristics of effective Safe

Community programs?

Characteristics of effective Safe Community Programs

• Share with your table the most

difficult problem you have faced in

your Safe Community work.

May we help you?

• Report your findings back to the whole

group

Synthesis

• What are the most useful “thinking

hats” for community-based injury

prevention and safety promotion

programs?

Thinking hats

• Which characteristics of effective Safe

Communities are best understood using

your thinking hat?

Using the thinking hats to inform best practice

• Each thinking hat is useful for solving

certain types of problems

• Choose one of the problems identified

earlier that your “thinking hat” could help

solve

• Discuss how your thinking hat could

solve this problem

Using the thinking hats to a solve problems

• Report your findings back to the whole

group

Synthesis

Summary

1. Content experts (researchers)

Why & what to do? – best methods

2. Process experts (practitioners & policy makers)

How to do it? - best practice

3. Context experts (the target community)

Who, where & when to do it? - best fit

Three types of experts are required

We need to share our knowledge to be effective

The Six Thinking Hats of

Evidence-based Community

Injury Prevention and Safety

Promotion Programs

Dale Hanson