| 21st Century Program | |
| Creating real world learning opportunities for high school students through flexible scheduling and interactive instructional methodology that focuses on the global workplace, technology, and citizenship and character development. | |
| ACE Global Solutions Service Learning Project Support Site | |
| ACE Global Solutions: Support site for a project that engages students in collaborating effectively to improve maternal and child health in Hawai'i. | |
| Addiction and Prevention Services | |
| Ensuring a comprehensive system of quality services for the prevention and treatment of addictions in Kansas | |
| ATOD Task Force of Healthy Communities St. Charles County | |
| Working together toward a common goal of building a safe, healthy, and drug-free community. | |
| Austin/Travis County STEPS to a Healthier US | |
| A community embracing healthy living for all. To inspire people to take steps to adopt healthy lifestyles by: promoting healthy behaviors, preventing and managing disease, and advocating for policy change. | |
| Box Butte Family Focus Coalition | |
| Promote a broad community coalition, based on trust and understanding, which respects culture and differences, develops collaborative plans for building and sustaining a safe and healthy community for children, youth, and families through integrated services and shared resources. | |
| Buffalo County Community Partners | |
| The project is a county-wide community health status improvement initiative. It is one of the first projects of its kind in Nebraska. | |
| Chase County Drug Free Action Team | |
| The Chase County Drug Free Action Team serves Chase County, Kansas, a rural area covering 776 square miles with a population of 3,033. | |
| Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs - Utah | |
| The aim of this WorkStation is to serve as a capacity-building support for children and youth with special health care needs and their families. | |
| Collaborative Efforts to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) | |
| Purpose of Program: To integrate strategies that address (1) adult & community responsibility (2) the prevention of perpetration & (3) all levels of the social ecology (i.e. individual, relationship, community, and societal) into existing state and local level collaboratives that address CSA prevention. | |
| Communities in Schools of KCK/Wyandotte County | |
| CIS champions the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life. | |
| Communities in Schools of Marion County | |
| CIS of Marion County Champions the Connection of Needed Resources with Schools and Communities to Help Young People Successfully Learn, Stay in School, and Prepare for Life. | |
| Community Health Promotion Agency | |
| This is an example of how your community or agency could use the Community WorkStation tool to facilitate your work. Please contact us at the Work Group for Community Health and Development for more information. | |
| Community Tool Box | |
| To promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources. | |
| Community Tool Box--Europe | |
| Using Internet Technology to Build Capacity and Advance the Evidence Base for Community Health and Development in Selected European Communities (Cities and Regions), With a Special Focus on Drug-Related Issues. | |
| Connect the Dottes | |
| Connect the Dottes is an association of community leaders connecting groups across the county who are interested in Substance Abuse Prevention. The ?Dottes? are working on issues such as: Underage Drinking, Tobacco License for Wyandotte County, Drug Endangered Children, and Grassroots Leadership Trainings. | |
| CTB Global - Translation and Cultural Adaptation | |
| DMSC Sonagachi Project | |
| Our vision and mission: to improve the lives and health of sex workers and their children in the Sonagachi neighborhood of Kolkata. | |
| Eastern Mediterranean Region Community Development WorkStation | |
| Our Vision/Mission: To support community health and development through capacity building, collaborative research, and learning in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. | |
| Ellis County Community Partnership | |
| To join together in a common effort to build a healthy and safe community reducing the risks of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs while promoting healthy attitudes and behaviors in Ellis County. | |
| ESCAPe Initiative | |
| Purpose: To enhance state and community capacity to address child and adolescent health through violence prevention. | |
| Flint Hills Regional Prevention Center | |
| Flint Hills Regional Prevention Center 1000 Lincoln Street, Emporia, Kansas 66801 (620) 343-2211 | |
| Foundation of Life Ministries, Inc | |
| The mission of Foundation of Life Ministries is to minister to the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, and environmental needs of all people by spreading Christ's liberating gospel of word and deed through community-based outreach, programs, and supports to serve the needs of the youth, the homeless, the jobless, the imprisoned, and the elderly of the Hutchinson community and surrounding area. | |
| Girls Take Charge (Girls Inc.) | |
| Global Programme for Health Promotion Effectiveness | |
| The GPHPE aims to raise the standards of health promoting policy-making and practice world-wide by reviewing, building and translating evidence of effectiveness in terms of health, social, economic and political impact while stimulating debate on the nature of evidence of effectiveness. | |
| Guilford County Substance Abuse Coalition | |
| Mission: The Coalition brings together the provider community and Guilford County residents to develop a partnership through advocacy, education, collaboration, and support of best practice principles to effectively address substance abuse. | |
| Ivanhoe Area Neighborhood | |
| Building clean, beautiful, safe, thriving neighborhoods for healthy families and youth through trusting cooperative relationships. | |
| Juvenile Justice Authority, State of Kansas | |
| Vision of the JJA: Changing lives of at-risk youth and their families for safer, stronger Kansas communities | |
| Kaiser Permanente's Community Health Initiatives | |
| Kaiser Permanente's Community Health Initiatives (CHI) seek to transform the health of our communities by linking an evidence-based and prevention-oriented approach to medicine with community activism and proven public health interventions. | |
| Kansas City - Chronic Disease Coalition | |
| Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium | |
| Kansas City, KS Weed and Seed Site #117 | |
| Operation Weed and Seed is a multi-sector approach that aims to prevent, control, and reduce violent crime, drug abuse, and gang activity in targeted high-crime neighborhoods. The strategy involves working with law enforcement agencies and prosecutors to "weed out" criminals who participate in violent crime and drug abuse; and "seed in" human services to the area, encompassing prevention, intervention, treatment, and neighborhood revitalization. | |
| Kansas SPF-SIG | |
| The Kansas SPF-SIG supports community efforts to prevent and reduce underage drinking. | |
| KCMO Aim4Peace Outreach Component | |
| This page is for internal communication and documentation related to the KCMO Aim4Peace outreach component. | |
| KCMO Project Aim4Peace | |
| AIM4PEACE is a comprehensive public health strategy designed to reduce violence by supporting people active in their community and by connecting residents to basic services. Thie misison of Aim4Peace is to increase the capacity to handle its own disputes and empower citizens through community mobilizatin to peacefully resolve their conflicts. | |
| KU Applied Behavioral Science Graduate Student Organization | |
| The ABSC GSO provides support and representation of the department's graduate students. GSO officers provide student representation at faculty meetings and within department committees, hold a poster session each spring to promote professional practices in research and presentation skills, and also maintain the departmental library as a resource for students. | |
| Mason City Youth Task Force | |
| To coordinate and facilitate collaborative community initiatives that impact the lives of young people. | |
| Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church | |
| Hope Street Opportunities', a ministry of Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church, "envisions a seamless networking strategy that will connect those who reside in the urban core with those in society who want to give and share as a lifestyle of significance." Mission Statement: Hope Street Opportunities will empower those we serve to lives of greater significance. | |
| National Turning Point Initiative | |
To transform and strengthen the Public Health system in the United States to make the system more effective, more community-based, and more collaborative. | |
| NGOs for Health Promotion | |
| Our Vision: NGOs promoting health globally | |
| NIDA Coalition Project | |
| Our Vision/Mission: To understand and improve the functioning of substance abuse coalitions through participatory research. | |
| North Central Kansas Regional Prevention Center | |
| Regional Prevention Centers in Kansas assist communities in building the capacity to address youth health and behavior problems through available state resources. They are committed to a vision of change for their community - a vision where all children are healthy and able to reach their full potential. | |
| Northeast Coalition, Inc. | |
| The Northeast Coalition, Inc. is an association of neighborhoods, businesses, and organizations that plans, advocates, mobilizes resources, and fosters community involvement to improve the quality of life in the Northeast neighborhood of Kansas City, KS. | |
| Northeast Kansas Regional Prevention Center | |
| Northeast Kansas Regional Prevention Center | |
| Northwest Kansas Regional Prevention Center - Colby | |
| The Northwest Kansas Regional Prevention Center in Colby serves as a consulting agent in helping local and regional communities create safe, healthy, enriching, and drug free environments. | |
| Northwest Kansas Regional Prevention Center - Hays | |
| Regional Prevention Centers in Kansas assist communities in building the capacity to address youth health and behavior problems through available state resources. They are committed to a vision of change for their community - a vision where all children are healthy and able to reach their full potential. | |
| PAHO Faces, Voices and Places | |
| To support and document community health and development efforts to advance the MDGs at the community and municipal level. | |
| PAHO/ Americas Region Community Health WorkStation | |
| To support community health and development through capacity building, collaborative research, and learning in the Region of the Americas. | |
| Panhandle Public Health District | |
| Prairie Passages | |
| Prairie Passages is dedicated to a clean and healthy environment | |
| Preventing Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Within Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities | |
| This initiative seeks to integrate prevention principles, concepts and practices into racial/ethnic minority community efforts to address sexual and intimate partner violence. An emphasis will be placed on building capacity to work with men and boys in a culturally appropriate manner to prevent these forms of violence before they occur. | |
| Regional Drug-Free Alliance - Richmond, VA | |
| The Regional Drug-Free Alliance is a community anti-drug coalition dedicated to reducing substance abuse in the Greater Richmond area. | |
| Regional Prevention Center of East Central Kansas | |
| Regional Prevention Centers in Kansas assist communities in building the capacity to address youth health and behavior problems through available state resources. They are committed to a vision of change for their community - a vision where all children are healthy and able to reach their full potential. | |
| Regional Prevention Center of Johnson, Miami, Leavenworth Counties | |
| Mission: to help community members recognize and address substance abuse issues using programs based on research and best practice. Vision: to develop healthy communities; places where children and youth make choices that allow them to reach their fullest | |
| Risk Reduction Involving Sexuality of Kids (RRISK) | |
| Promoting community-based activities to reduce risky sexual behaviors and encourage healthy, life-long decisions of youth. | |
| Safe Streets of Topeka | |
| Safe Streets Campaign is a non-profit organization that brings people together - sometimes neighbors who get to know each other for the first time - to take back their streets. | |
| Salem Missionary Baptist Church | |
| The goal of Salem Missionary Baptist Church is to build its capacity to provide assistance in the neighborhood as well as the community at large. | |
| SCRA Community Action-Research Centers | |
| This WST supports the SCRA initiative to develop a network of Community Action-Research Centers. | |
| Shawnee Kansas Regional Prevention Center | |
| Shawnee Kansas Regional Prevention Center | |
| South Central Kansas Regional Prevention Center | |
| The RPC will seek to empower communities to develop the seven core competencies, which provide a collaborative framework to build local capacity to solve local problems. This process provides a course of action to support healthy development of children and youth community by community | |
| Southeast Kansas Regional Prevention Center | |
| Regional Prevention Center of Southeast Kansas works to mobilize communities to prevent at risk behaviors among youth. | |
| Southwest Kansas Regional Prevention Center | |
| To create and support environments for children to become healthy and contributing members of Kansas communities | |
| SRS- Community Capacity Building | |
| Vision: Partners working together to create healthy communities; Mission: Building capacity so communities thrive. | |
| State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems | |
| Vision: To ensure that all SECCS grantees are equipped with the knowledge, skills, tools and relationships to ensure the implementation of comprehensive system of child and family services that supports the healthy development and school readiness of young children. | |
| Tabernacle Community Development Center | |
| Tabernacle Community Development Corporation (TCDC )is a non-profit organization with a commitment to ministry in the urban core of Kansas City, Missouri. In 2004, the organization was developed under the direction of Bishop L.F. Thuston and a volunteer-based board of directors from varied professional backgrounds. | |
| Texas Diabetes Awareness and Education in the Community (DAEC) Program | |
| THRIVE: Allen County's Community Health Council | |
| "A place people want to live because it is safe and healthy". Our mission is to make accessible a safe environment with recreation, education, and health services for every citizen in Allen County. | |
| Truman Medical Center | |
| Washington County Community Partnership | |
| Our mission is to build a healthy community in Washington County free of tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse. | |
| Wichita/Sedgwick Regional Prevention Center | |
| Regional Prevention Center of Wichita/Sedgwick County, 1421 E. 2nd Street North, Wichita, KS 67214 (316) 262-2421 | |
| Work Group for Community Health and Development | |
Promoting community health development through research, teaching, and service. | |
| World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development at KU | |
| To promote community health and development through capacity building, participatory research, and co-learning in a global community. | |
| Wyandotte County Regional Prevention Center | |
| The mission of the Regional Prevention Center of Wyandotte County is to be the focal point for community-centered prevention by providing an innovative framework of leadership, support and guidance thus creating an environment that produces healthy lifestyles free of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. | |
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