Design an evaluation that fits your social prescribing program.
This resource provides a framework and tools for evaluating social prescribing programs across Canada. Choose outcomes and indicators that will work in your context, design your study and data collection tools, and put your site on a shared national map along with the evidence demonstrating its impact in Canada.
This toolkit is designed as a supporting resource to your evaluation, but you decide what measures and methods work best for your community.
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 →
Your journey, end to end
Four steps, in order. Start wherever you are.
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.
Site 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.
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.