Resources for Storytelling
How to use stories in your organization
- Storytelling as Best Practice
Understand why storytelling is the single most powerful communication tool ever created; and learn specifc ways to use stories to advance an organization’s mission. - A Goodman Online
Resources for organizational storytelling, communication, and presentation - Richard A. Krueger and Storytelling
This website helps people use stories for both program evaluation and research. It also includes suggestions on obtaining and writing stories.
Examples of storytelling in public health
- Wise Woman
Centers for Disease Control’s Wise Woman project to screen for and prevent cardiovascular and other chronic diseases in uninsured, under-insured, and low-income middle-aged women. Scroll down the page to Wise Woman Works and explore the two volumes of collected success stories. - Getting
Behind the Wheel
MDH’s own use of stories in the Public Health Nursing Newsletter to demonstrate the Public Health Interventions Wheel components in practice. Click on a recent issue of the PHN Newsletter, or read a collection of stories at Wheel of Public Health Interventions
One Daily Beep and Megan Finished College
The alarm on my watch beeped and I realized I needed to head over to visit my client. The client I was going to see was a teen mother, Megan, who had given birth six months ago. On the last visit we had discussed her desire to prevent a pregnancy as she was again … read more
