Introduction to CIS Toolboxes
Starting or enhancing a CIS is a challenging but exciting venture. The CIS Toolbox will help guide your decisions around how to organize and manage your Cancer Information Service. We highly recommend using the Needs Assessment Tool as it will help you conduct a basic assessment of the needs and proposed structure. The Social Media Toolbox will help guide your decisions around using social media to grow your Cancer Information Service.
Who are these toolboxes for?
The CIS Toolbox is for anyone or any organization planning to start or presently operating a service giving credible one to one cancer information. It is based on the experience, policies and materials of cancer organizations worldwide that offer cancer information services. As this tool box aims to be useful to both established and CIS who are just starting out, you may find some sections more useful than others. The Social Media Toolbox is for those services that have become comfortable providing base levels of service and are looking to enhance their services. It was developed to help CIS agencies learn more about how social media can be a tool for growth and provide guidance for making decisions about the best social medial channels to use for a target population and how to develop materials to use with a social media plan.
What’s in these toolboxes?
The tool boxes contain supplemental materials, resources and real-world examples:
- Specific information on how to start and manage a CIS
- What to consider when selecting different channels to deliver your service (telephone, email or through social media)
- Samples of materials that organizations are using for their cancer information services
- Practical lessons learned by members of the International Cancer Information Service Group (ICISG)