Improve your ability to effectively plan, implement, and communicate wellness initiatives for individuals, communities, and organizations. You will learn necessary data collection methods, how to develop a logic model, and ways to differentiate quantitative and qualitative data that are important factors in developing and evaluating initiatives. Key strategies for communicating program findings with relevant internal and external stakeholders will be explored to enhance connection and support for small and large-scale initiatives.

This course is one of nine eLearning courses intentionally designed to support competency-building in the five domains of the NWI Wellness Promotion Competency Model. Specifically, this is the second of two courses that support the model's “Communication & Collaboration" domain. The model serves as the standard for the Certified Wellness Practitioner (CWP) certification. This course supports the following wellness promotion competencies:

• Use quantitative and qualitative feedback to continually evaluate the quality and effectiveness of initiatives.
• Use quantitative and qualitative data to communicate key findings to stakeholders.

See "Getting Started" below for the full list of learning objectives for this course.

This self-paced interactive eLearning course must be completed within four weeks of registering. Within the course, you’ll find knowledge checks or activities to enhance your learning as well as a variety of tools and resources you can apply in your work.

Time to complete the course varies by learner, but we suggest planning for a total of three to five hours to complete all the learning elements, including any application activities and self-reflections. You must complete the full online course and submit the course evaluation to earn your certificate indicating the number of continuing education credits earned.