Resource Type: Training
Website with information on open burning emissions, including information on burn bans, guidance on open burning restrictions, and information on pollutants released from burning trash.
This guide is designed with government agencies in mind, to help those who must manage the process where public participation is important for decision-making, while incorporating fair treatment, meaningful involvement and social inclusion of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, sexual orientation or income.
This resource provides trainings on how to comply with source specific Maximum Achievable Control Technologies (MACT) standards. Training are provided through MS PowerPoint presentations.
The CDC Outdoor Air Quality Communications Toolkit is a specialized public health resource designed for health departments, professionals, and emergency responders to communicate the risks of air pollution to the general public.
Website providing resources about the basics of public engagement benefits, principles, design and other topics to help local and regional agencies successfully involve stakeholders in local public decision making.
This is a three stage tool that assesses capacity for public engagement and identifies key activities to advance capacity and capabilities.
Online course providing training of planning and evaluation. While focused on education and outreach programs, the broad principles of evaluation can be applied to air quality programs as well. The course provides training on logic models and how to use them for program evaluation.
Guide providing information on evaluating heart disease and stroke prevention activities within states. While focused on these activities, the guide provides more general approaches for evaluating a wide range of programs.
Set of curated resources to build understanding of evaluation—what it is, why it is important, and how it can help Federal agencies execute their missions more effectively—among Federal agency staff at all levels. Importantly, this Toolkit is not a "how to" on conducting evaluation. Instead, it offers curated tools, reports, and templates to help Federal staff who work with evaluators, see the need for evaluation but don't know where to start, or want to use evaluation findings to inform their decisions.
Report providing information on how to develop a program logic model. Format is a PDF of a slide deck. Goal of the report is to describe the function of a logic model, identify key components, walk through developing a logic model, and describe how it can be used for evaluation planning.
