The KU Work Group's Community Tool Box (CTB) is the world's largest resource
(over 7,000 pages of content) for building capacity for community health and development.
Since 1975, the KU Work Group has worked with partners to address two big research questions:
How do people work together to bring about change in communities? And, under what conditions
are these changes associated with improvement in community health and development?
In 2004, our center was officially designated as The World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas. In October 2008, w
In August of 2007 the Work Group received an NIH Exploratory/Development Grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a project titled Testing the Community Change Model with Substance Abuse Coalitions.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently re-designated the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas as a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development. The charter for this re-designation references the Work Group's efforts to sustain and further ongoing efforts to build capacity for community health and development globally by using the expanded resources of the Community Tool Box. In addition, the charter states that the Work Group will use participatory research methods to build the evidence base for how communities create and sustain conditions that promote health and health equity. This renewed designation constitutes the second four year partnership the WHO has extended to the Work Group, and it will be effective through October 2012. For more information on The WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas, click here.
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