Community of Practice: Assessing the Retrospective Impact of Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs on Social Connection
Commit to Connect’s 2025 Community of Practice includes six community care hubs (CCHs) serving older adults and people with disabilities and offering chronic disease self-management education (CDSME) programs. The Community of Practice is assisting members with measuring the impact of their CDSME programs on social connection.
Participating organizations:
- Collect data from clients who completed CDSME program workshops using the Upstream Social Interaction Risk Scale (U-SIRS-13) and Retrospective Assessment of Connection Impact (RACI)
- Secure data reports from the evaluator
- Receive technical assistance on how to understand and use the data to learn more about the impact of their program on social connectedness and engage in continuous quality improvement
This community of practice launched in June 2025. Participating CCHs immediately began collecting retrospective data from clients who completed a CDSME program workshop three or more months prior. Each program will collect data from at least 50 clients per CDSME program, with the aim of having all the data collected by the end of September. This opportunity builds on learnings from the Commit to Connect 2023-2024 community of practice.
Participating Organizations:
- Mid-America Community Support Network, Missouri
- Get Healthy North Country Community Integrated Health Network, New York
- Partners in Care Foundation, California
- Illinois Pathways to Health Age Options, Illinois
- Healthy Living for ME, Maine
- Lumber River Council of Governments, North Carolina
Previous Communities of Practice
- Understanding the Impact of Social Isolation and Loneliness Programs Community of Practice: The 2023 – 2024 Community of Practice utilized the U-SIRS-13 as a “pre-test” and “post-test” with three network organizations.
- Intergenerational Engagement Community of Practice: The 2022-2023 Community of Practice focused on intergenerational programming and social connectedness.
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