Vision
The SBC working group contributes to improved maternal and child health outcomes by strengthening the capacity of CORE members to design and implement effective social and behavioral change strategies while documenting and disseminating valuable experiences
Announcement:
The newly formed Quality Improvement (QI) Subgroup of the CORE Social and Behavior Change Working Group seeks to foster sharing and learning among CORE members about effective approaches and methods to improve the quality of program implementation. Prior to the Fall Meeting, we put out a call to the full CORE listserv to respond to a short web survey about quality issues and approaches. We received responses from 36 people. The attached document summarizes the results. Our subgroup plans to develop learning opportunities and web resources on the CORE website to support members in improving program quality. Anyone interested in joining the effort or learning more should contact either Beth Outterson Beth ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Lani Marquez ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
CORE Group SBC WG Quality Improvement Survey
Social and Behavior Change Program Design
Information on SBC program design strategies such as Barrier Analysis, Partnership Defined Quality, the use of Care Groups, Designing for Behavior Change, and BEHAVE.
Social and Behavior Change Research
Includes information on qualitative research methods, meauring behavioral determinants, and the Change Project.
Book Reviews
Connected
Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler
DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Drives Us
Daniel H. Pink
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
David Bornstein
Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures
Daniel Taylor-Ide, President Emeritus, Future Generations and Carl E. Taylor, former Professor Emeritus at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Nudge
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
Chip & Dan Health
The Hidden Brain
Shankar Vedentam
The Tipping Point
Malcom Gladwell
Presented by the SBC Working Group at CORE Group's 2010 Spring Meeting..
The Road Taken
By Mitzi Hanold (Food for the Hungry), Marilyn Patton (Hope Worldwide), and Robert Frost. (It was Marilyn's idea)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both
and be one traveler, long I stood
alone (because the other co-chair was missing)
and looked down as far as I could
to where it bent into the undergrowth.
But I, I chose SBC, just as fair
SBC having perhaps the better claim.
We brought community health centers together in PDQ
We changed lurkers into overacheivers in DBC
and that was perhaps the most powerful change.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood and I ---
I chose the Social and Behavioral change working group
And that has made all the difference