Design an evaluation that fits your program, and still speaks a common language.
This toolkit turns the Common National Evaluation Framework for Social Prescribing into something you can use. Choose outcomes and indicators by domain, build intake and follow-up forms, assemble interview guides, and put your site on a shared national map.
This toolkit supports your evaluation; it does not mandate one. You decide what to measure, choosing the signals that matter to your mission, your funders, and your community, and adding depth only as your capacity grows.
Built for program leads, connectors, evaluators, and researchers. No statistical background required to begin.
Six tools that work together
Each tool draws on the same framework, so the choices you make in one carry through to the others.
Understand the framework
Two levels and ten domains, with a burden estimate on every indicator. See what to measure and why, with guidance from programs already doing this work.
Choose validated tools
Plain-language pages for each measure, with question wording, scoring, cost, burden, and full citations to help you decide what to use and when.
Build intake & follow-up forms
Select indicators across domains and download a ready-to-use Word form, with response options and scoring notes included.
Assemble interview guides
Generate semi-structured guides for systems-level evaluation, structured by implementation-science domains and tailored to each stakeholder.
Join the site map
Register your program, profile your connectors, and map the partners you refer to and receive referrals from.
Find training
Link out to CISP training, the link-worker competency framework, and other resources for building capacity.
A flexible domain-and-indicator approach
Evaluation of social prescribing has to reach beyond clinical measures to capture psychosocial, relational, functional, material, and experiential change. The framework holds that range in a structure that adapts to local capacity.
Domains sit at two levels. Program-level domains describe how social prescribing is structured and embedded in local systems. Participant-level domains describe the changes people experience. No indicator is ranked above another: each carries a measurement-burden estimate, so a small program and a research study can each choose what fits and still measure the same things.
See all ten domainsSite descriptions, partnerships and network functioning, reach and access, and program value and sustainability.
Psychosocial wellbeing, social connectedness, functional status, material stability, service navigation, and subjective experience.
A national resource, built with provincial partners
Coordinated through the Canadian Red Cross with funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada. About this toolkit and its partners →
Register your site and help build the national picture
Create a site profile, add your connectors and partner network, and use the toolkit to evaluate your program. New registrations are reviewed before they appear publicly.