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The Community Tool Box is a global resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and improvement.

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Read a brief description about how to use the CTB and find a related framework for guiding your community work.

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Practical step-by-step guidance in specific community-building skills is available in over 300 sections.

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Toolkits outline key tasks, examples, and support for 16 core competencies or skill areas.

Solve a Problem

Troubleshooting guides identify common challenges in doing this work, reflection questions, and links to supports.

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Support for implementing key processes to promote change and improvement, and links to databases for best practices.

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New to the Tool Box...

Check out the latest materials posted to the Tool Box:

Chapter 37, Section 2: Information Gathering and Synthesis

Chapter 37, Section 3: Data Collection: Designing an Observational System

Multnomah County Health Department implements MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships)

Chapter 2, Section 13. MAPP: Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships

Revised Writing a Grant Application for Funding Toolkit

 

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What's New at the Tool Box?

WHO global conference

Dr. Stephen Fawcett of the Community Tool Box team facilitated the community empowerment track at the World Health Organization's 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion in Nairobi. See below for his video interview.

 

Family Volunteer Day is November 21

This annual day of service, held on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, is designed to demonstrate the power of families who choose to volunteer together to support the communities in which they live and serve. For more information, click here.