The Oklahoma BRFSS program will be hosting a Survey Supervisor and Interviewer Training Workshop ** (coordinated with BSB and Claude Comeau). This workshop was very well-received in 2009. We are planning to hold a similar 2 day workshop in August 2010 that will include a focus on the new cell phone protocols, the upcoming CPPW/ARRA projects, and other BRFSS data collection issues and concerns.
The dates for the 2010 workshop are August 23 & 24 (Monday and Tuesday) at The Hampton Inn & Suites- Oklahoma City/Bricktown. Room rates are $83 single, $113 double, $143 triple, $173 quad. There will be no cost ***to attendees for participation in the workshop session (beyond their own travel, lodging, and meals).
This workshop is designed to introduce and discuss issues and provide information that will improve BRFSS data collection quality and other BRFSS practices. The goal, as before, will be to exchange information with other data collectors about best practices, effective tactics, and useful experiences. Last time, participants found the combination of presenters and the following discussions between participants very helpful.
This year we will include discussion and review of cell phone experiences and the cell protocols, as well as discussions of landline and mail survey issues. With many states’ CPPW/ARRA projects starting in August or September, we will have a session for sharing experiences and questions about the preparations and early stages of those new surveys. Other topics are also being explored and will be added in the next few weeks. Your comments and suggestions are encouraged and appreciated.
Please send us topic ideas you would like us to consider for the conference. Those could be topics that you would like to learn more about, or topics you would be willing to present to the group. We welcome new ideas for new topics we have not covered in past sessions, as well as suggestions for continuing discussions of ongoing issues.
There will be a section where states can share their state's interviewer training materials. We would like to compile information to include in our package for the conference during the state-sharing sessions. Hopefully you will send or bring us what you have that is unique from your state to make the package complete, so that we can share information that might assist all of the states.
To help us plan, we would like to get a preliminary count of how many people may be attending. If you and/or some of your staff are interested, please let us know by answering the next few questions and sending your responses to: Andrew Evans (a.evans@srbi.com).
1) What state or organization are you from? _________________________
a. How many attendees may be coming from your state? _____
b. What are their positions? (coordinator, project director, supervisor, interviewer, etc.) ____________________________________________
2) How likely is it that your staff will attend?
a.) Will definitely attend.
b.) Are fairly sure we will attend.
c.) Need more information before we can decide.
d.) Think we can but need to check on travel (funding).
e.) Would like to attend, but are unable to because of travel (or some other) restriction.
f.) Are not interested in attending.
g.) Unsure
h.) Other_____________________________________
3) What topics would you like to learn about at the workshop? _____________________________________________
4) What topics would you be able to present to the group, or lead discussions on? _____________________________________________
5) What materials would you be able to share with other participants? ___________________________________
We would appreciate your response by Monday, May 24, 2010.
Since our email lists may not be up to date, please accept our apologies if you received duplicates of this message, and please forward it to anyone who you think might be interested.
Thank you very much.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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