CTB eNewsletter Special Edition: Online Tools for Implementing the SPF - Summer 2009
 
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Core Competencies of Community Work
 

The graphic located above maps the core competencies of community work listed in the CTB onto the Strategic Prevention Framework.

 

These Toolkits provide a starting point for completing key tasks in community work:

 

Assessment

1. Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships
2. Assessing Community Needs and Resources
3. Analyzing Problems and Goals
4. Developing a Framework or Model of Change

Capacity

5. Increasing Participation and Membership

6. Building Leadership
7. Enhancing Cultural Competence

8. Improving Organizational Management and Development

Planning

9. Developing Strategic and Action Plans

Implementation

10. Developing an Intervention
11. Advocating for Change
12. Influencing Policy Development
13. Writing a Grant Application for Funding

14. Implementing a Social Marketing Effort

Evaluation

15. Evaluating the Initiative

16. Sustaining the Work or Initiative

 

Community Tool Box Curriculum

The University of Kansas Work Group has created a training curriculum based on these 16 core competencies. Each module contains the following supports: a participant’s guide, a facilitator’s guide, PowerPoint presentation, learning objectives, group activities, assessment of competence, and supplemental online readings. KU Work Group staff members are experienced trainers in each of the learning modules and can also consult with your group for a “train the trainer” approach. For details on lessons or ordering, please click here.

 


 
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A Brief Introduction to the Strategic Prevention Framework
How the Community Tool Box Supports the SPF
Core Competencies of Community Work
Online Services to Support this Work
Kansas SPF-SIG Efforts
 
 

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What Users are Saying

 

“The Community Tool Box is a lifeline for the Partnership in may ways: finding best practice models for just about anything regarding at risk children and their families; assessment tools; computer as well as publication resources; how-to hands on approaches to areas such as marketing, community involvement, etc.”

-Cheryl Pestaina, Project Director for a Service Partnership for preventing risky behaviors in adolescent youth in the Overtown Community of Miami, Florida

  

“It is an absolutely incredible resource. The most comprehensive resource I have found for skill and knowledge based information for our field.”

-Laurie Call, Consultant in the substance abuse prevention field in DivernonIllinois

  

“[The CTB contains] information on organization, structure, surveys, and outcomes. It has been very helpful.”

-George Coates, Executive Director of a nonprofit: Guilford County Substance Abuse Coalition in Greensboro, North Carolina

 



 
 

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