This page outlines next steps in the preparatory stage of the immPACC method. This is written for immPACC facilitators to use in training and for reference.

At this step, we assume you have a Community Engagement Lead, you have done an initial assessment and believe that immPACC is a good fit for this community at this time.

Steps to Prepare for immPACC Session

We have outlined several steps to prepare an immPACC session with a community:

  1. Engage community participants
  2. Develop Session Materials
  3. Coordinate immPACC Mapping session

Engage Community Participants

Identify Community Participants

Working with your community engagement lead, confirm the organizations and the people in those organizations that should attend the session.

Having the "right" stakeholders in the mapping session is critical for success. You want to strive for more diversity in the participants, as that makes for a deeper and richer discussion of the barriers and gaps. Consider:

  1. Local public health leadership
  2. Local primary care leadership (e.g. leadership of a primary care network)
  3. Indigenous leaders (e.g. health sector and / or elders)
  4. Community organizations working with the populations (e.g. NGOs working with particular populations)
  5. Local government (e.g. local mayor, city manager, and / or program manager if in a larger city with focused sub-population)
  6. Facilities where the vaccine clinics are run (e.g. community centre manager and / or director) or are likely to be run

<aside> ☝🏽 TIP: For immPACC sessions we recommend people who have positions or roles in the community that (a) give them on the ground knowledge of the community and populations being discussed, and (b) also have some decision making ability with regards to implementing the proposed changes.

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An outreach worker will have detailed on the ground knowledge but minimal ability to change the outreach program. An executive director in a health region will have all the ability to change a policy but limited knowledge on how to adapt the local needs (and likely this has already been tried). Instead, you want people in the middle - close enough to be able to reflect on the immunization barriers but also able to make a (at least tentative) commitment of resources during the prototyping.