The Community Tool Box Curriculum

Modules for Each of

16 Core Competencies

Some Learning Supports &

Modes of Delivery
  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
  5. Developing Strategic and Action Plans
  6. Building Leadership
  7. Developing an Intervention
  8. Increasing Participation and Membership
  9. Enhancing Cultural Competence
  10. Advocating for Change
  11. Influencing Policy Development
  12. Evaluating the Initiative
  13. Implementing a Social Marketing Campaign
  14. Writing a Grant Application for Funding
  15. Improving Organizational Management and Development
  16. Sustaining the Project or Initiative

     SUPPORTS FOR EACH MODULE:

  • Participant’s Guide
  • Facilitator’s Outline
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Learning Objectives
  • Group Activities
  • Assessment of Competence
  • Supplemental Readings (online)

 

     SOME MODES OF DELIVERY:

  • Courses
  • Workshops
  • CEU training
  • Certificate programs
  • Online

 

 

CTB Curriculum

Modules and Lessons

MODULE 1: Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships

Lesson 1.1   Working Together for Community and System Changes

Lesson 1.2   Creating a Community Coalition or Collaborative Partnership

Lesson 1.3   Maintaining a Community Coalition or Collaborative Partnership

Lesson 1.4   Putting It All Together: Creating and Maintaining Your New Coalition

 

MODULE 2: Assessing Community Needs and Resources

Lesson 2.1   Understanding and Describing the Community

Lesson 2.2   Assessing Community Needs     

Lesson 2.3   Identifying Community Assets and Resources

Lesson 2.4   Conducting Assessments            

Lesson 2.5   Doing a SWOT Analysis:  Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

Lesson 2.6   Putting It All Together: Creating a Community Assessment

 

MODULE 3: Analyzing Problems and Goals

Lesson 3.1   Naming and Framing Problems and Goals

Lesson 3.2   Analyzing the Problem or Goal

Lesson 3.3   Identifying Personal and Environmental Factors that Contribute to Risk and Protection

Lesson 3.4  Identifying Targets and Agents of Change:  Who Can Benefit and Who Can Help

Lesson 3.5  Generating and Choosing Solutions

Lesson 3.6  Putting It All Together: Analyzing Your Community’s Problems and Goals

 

MODULE 4: Developing a Framework or Model of Change

Lesson 4.1   Developing a Logic Model

Lesson 4.2   Intervention Mapping

Lesson 4.3   Reviewing and Building Consensus on the Framework or Model of Change

Lesson 4.4   Putting It All Together: Developing Your Framework

 

MODULE 5: Developing Strategic and Action Plans

Lesson 5.1   VMOSA I:  Vision, Mission and Objectives

Lesson 5.2   VMOSA II:  Strategies and Action Plans

Lesson 5.3   Reviewing and Building Consensus on Your Action Plan

Lesson 5.4   Using Strategic and Action Plans to Guide and Enhance Your Work

Lesson 5.5   Putting It All Together: Creating Your Strategic and Action Plans

 

MODULE 6: Building Leadership

Lesson 6.1   Community Leadership: Some Key Ideas, Styles, and Qualities

Lesson 6.2   Developing a Plan for Building Leadership

Lesson 6.3   Collaborative Leadership

Lesson 6.4   Servant Leadership

Lesson 6.5   Developing a Great Leadership Team

Lesson 6.6   Putting It All Together: Creating a Leadership Development Plan

MODULE 7: Developing an Intervention

Lesson 7.1  Developing a Preliminary Community Intervention

Lesson 7.2   Reviewing an Selecting Best Practices

Lesson 7.3   Adapting Interventions to Fit the Local Context

Lesson 7.4   Ethical Considerations in Implementing Interventions

Lesson 7.5   Putting It All Together: Creating a Plan for Developing an Intervention

 

MODULE 8: Increasing Participation and Membership

Lesson 8.1   Identifying and Connecting With Those to be Reached

Lesson 8.2   Recruiting New Members to the Organization or Effort

Lesson 8.3   Engaging Community Members in the Effort

Lesson 8.4   Maintaining Involvement and Sustaining Commitment of Members

Lesson 8.5   Putting It All Together: Increasing Participation and Membership

MODULE 9: Enhancing Cultural Competence

Lesson 9.1   Understanding and Assessing Cultural Competence

Lesson 9.2   Building Culturally Competent Organizations

Lesson 9.3   Supporting People Who Experience Discrimination

Lesson 9.4   Building Culturally Inclusive Communities

Lesson 9.5   Putting It All Together: Enhancing Cultural Competence

 

MODULE 10: Advocating for Change

Lesson 10.1  Twenty Guidelines for Effective Advocacy     

Lesson 10.2  Preparing for Advocacy through Research

Lesson 10.3  Matching Advocacy Tactics with Your Situation and Goals

Lesson 10.4  Implementing Advocacy Tactics with Allies and Against Opposition

Lesson 10:5  Putting It All Together: Planning your Advocacy Effort

 

MODULE 11: Influencing Policy Development

Lesson 11.1  Setting the Public Agenda

Lesson 11.2  Conducting Research to Influence Policy Development

Lesson 11.3  Developing Policy Goals and Plans

Lesson 11.4  Gaining Support for Policy Options

Lesson 11.5  Assuring Accountability and Enforcement of Existing Policies and Laws

Lesson 11.6  Putting It All Together: Planning to Influence Policy

 

MODULE 12: Evaluating the Initiative

Lesson 12.1   Concepts and Attributes of Evaluation

Lesson 12.2   Determining Who Cares and What They Care About

Lesson 12.3   Developing Evaluation Questions Consistent with the Framework and Intervention

Lesson 12.4   Gathering Evidence to Address the Evaluation Questions
Lesson 12.5   Using Evaluation Data to Learn and Make Adjustments
Lesson 12.6   Communicating the Findings to Relevant Audiences
Lesson 12.7   Using Standards to Assess Your Evaluation Plan
Lesson 12.8   Putting It All Together: Developing an Evaluation Plan

 

MODULE 13: Implementing a Social Marketing Effort

Lesson 13.1   Engaging in a Social Marketing Campaign

Lesson 13.2   Listening to Those Whose Behavior Matters

Lesson 13.3   Communicating Information to Key Audiences

Lesson 13.4   Making the Desired Behavior Change Easier and More Rewarding

Lesson 13.5   Supporting and Maintaining Behavior Changes

Lesson 13.6   Using Principles of Persuasion to Influence Adoption and Use of Practices

Lesson 13.7   Putting It All Together: Planning a Social Marketing Campaign

 

MODULE 14: Writing a Grant Application for Funding

Lesson 14.1   Preparing to Request Funding

Lesson 14.2   Developing a Budget that Reflects Your Project or Initiative

Lesson 14.3   Identifying and Communicating with Potential Funders

Lesson 14.4   Putting It All Together: A Community Grant Application

 

MODULE 15: Improving Organizational Management and Development

Lesson 15.1   Developing Governance and Management Structures

Lesson 15.2   Managing and Enhancing Human Resources

Lesson 15.3   Creating Sound Business and Financial Operations

Lesson 15.4   Ensuring Excellent Communications

Lesson 15.5   Putting It all Together: Improving Organizational Management and Development

 

MODULE 16: Sustaining the Work or Initiative

Lesson 16.1   Developing a Plan for Sustaining Your Program or Initiative

Lesson 16.2   Using the Twelve Tactics for Sustainability

Lesson 16.3   Developing Business and Marketing Plans

Lesson 16.4   Putting It All Together: Sustaining Your Work or Initiative