Materials Development

Let us help you develop effective patient education materials!

The Information & Education division of California Family Health Council has developed and honed a unique and award-winning materials development process which results in effective patient education materials that truly speak to your client. Whether the goal is to inform, instruct or motivate, our commitment is to create materials that support you in helping people lead healthier lives.

We can offer your agency reasonable, non-profit rates to assist you every step of the way:

We can assess your clients' needs.

Finding out what your clients really need and want to know – and how they'd like to see it presented is the important first step.

• Design needs assessments tools.
• Coordinate survey logistics.
• Facilitate focus groups.
• Conduct interviews.
• Compile and analyze results.

We can conduct nationwide literature searches and any needed background research for your project. The results of this customized needs assessment process can help inform many aspects of the work you do.

We can write the text you need.

Writing clear, easy-to-read text is an art! And we're glad to share the years of our experience with you.

• Develop text from needs assessment and research results.
• Review and edit existing materials.
• Take hard-to-read patient education materials and adapt them to the literacy, cultural, and emotional needs of your clients.
• Help you make sure that the text is culturally appropriate, easy to read, respectful and practical as well as accurate and encouraging.

We can design the material.

We can help you make your educational material attractive and appealing.

• Give recommendations for how the material is presented
• Make suggestions for improving the layout and readability of the text.
• Have our designers do this for you.
• Coordinate the entire process for you, from preliminary concepts to camera ready proofs.

We can translate the material.

Make sure your translation really rings true with your clients.

• Adapt and typeset your material into the language or languages your clients need.
• Field test the materials with the intended population.
• Professionally review the materials content experts.
• Proof and finalize all versions.

Take advantage of our team approach using a writer, a professional translator, and professional reviewers familiar with the cultural group as well as the content.

We can field test the materials

This step is indispensable to creating a material that truly reflects the clients' needs. Field-testing is done with representatives of the intended population itself.

• Design the field test tools.
• Conduct field test interviews or focus groups.
• Compile and analyze field test results.
• Refine the material before publication to ensure that each point is understandable and that the format and illustrations are appealing and positive.

Field testing the material ensures that the material conveys the desired message to the intended audience.

We can print and distribute to your clients

It can be complicated to get your materials printed and distributed. You can have us coordinate the whole process!

• Coordinate the pre-press work.
• Conduct the press checks.
• Set up mailing lists and ship your material where it needs to go.

We have years of experience with all the ins and outs of printing your materials. Let us save you time and headaches!

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