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First Name: bob
Last Name: chicken
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I am a transportation planner (a forester at heart and training) in a county dept. of human services. Current project is to help organize a county coalition for special neds transportation.
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First Name: Myla
Last Name: Everett
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Juvenile Diversion and Turning Point Steering Committee member for CCNTR
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First Name: Richard
Last Name: Gist
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Principal Assistant to the Fire Chief/Director; doctorally prepared community psychologist (systems/epi) with specialty in community response to disaster and catastrophe.
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First Name: JOan
Last Name: Wagnon
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Mayor of the Capitol City of Kansas
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First Name: Kathleen
Last Name: O'Malley
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I am facilitating the creation of safer communities for women, children and other vulnerable people in our rural communities. We have just completed the development of an Action Plan using data collected through community consultations. The Action Plan developed by 50 people representing all sectors of the community. We are now seeking funding for its implementation.
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First Name: Becky
Last Name: Westerfelt
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I work at the Rape Crisis Center and we are looking at approaching our prevention programs using the same principles as our intervention programs (empowerment model). Basically a shifting in our thinking and program activities that have elements of developing community capacity (at least as we understand it). I am hoping to convince our funders and policy-makers to go along with us on this grand adventure. So we are looking to developing an evaluation component from the get-go in order to facilitate any future efforts.
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First Name: Jean
Last Name: Nielsen
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I staff and facilitate a coalition of neighborhood associations and a business association.
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First Name: Hua
Last Name: Zhou
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Great Site! It helps me a lot.
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First Name: Curt
Last Name: McPhail
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I work with the Stop the Violence Collaboration, a National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention Site.
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First Name: Earline
Last Name: Williams
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I am a wife and mother of three, a business owner in the city of Euless I have completed a course called Community/Church Health Providers sponsored by the city of Fort Worth in behalf of my church
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First Name: Tim
Last Name: Casey
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I'm a mental health counselor in a large multi-service agency located west of Boston and in my first year of the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England Graduate School. This website has been tremendously helpful for a presentation I'm preapring on the roles of clinical psychologists om community mental health clinics.
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First Name: Lynn Sue
Last Name: Pierce
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Involved in Parish Nursing in our county
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First Name: Susan
Last Name: Messina
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I work as a grantwriter for a national health-related trade association that is interested in doing more community coalition work. This site looks rich. I will e-mail the URL to my compadres in gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender community organizing.
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First Name: Georgia
Last Name: Finau
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RWJF Healthy Nations Program for Southeast Alaska
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First Name: Dineen
Last Name: Andrews
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I am currently employed as a Community Faciliator with the Florida Dept. of Children & Families.
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First Name: Clara
Last Name: Porter
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I'm a community organizer recently transplanted to Maine from Brooklyn, NY!
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First Name: Sally Schwer
Last Name: Canning
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Just learned of the Tool Box through recent article in TCP. I am introducing the resources here to my doctoral level community psych course in the clinical psych program I teach in. Extremely practical and useful. I'm glad to be introduced to this resource.
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First Name: Torrence
Last Name: Crutchfield
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I work as a Health Educator within a Community Health Promotion Department of a County Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
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First Name: Susan
Last Name: Pourciau
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Our agency, ECHO, provides programs for very low income families and individuals.
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First Name: Patrick
Last Name: Teel
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I am the Education Coordinator for the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program in Wiesbaden Germany.
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First Name: Theodus
Last Name: Shannon
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Alcohol and Drug Control Officer for 3d ID (Mech) and ft. stewart. Thank you for the use of this site, it is a great place to visit and learn more about what's going on around us in the field of drug abuse prevention.
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First Name: Kevin
Last Name: Brown
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I am the Executive Director of the Addictions Coalition of Delaware, Inc, a non-profit agency for effective substance abuse policy and grass roots empowerment
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First Name: Charles
Last Name: Gardner, CED
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Gardner & Associates started business in 1999 to provide affordable community development expertise for rural communities in Nevada who need assistance most and can least afford it. Services may range from: downtown revitalization; historic preservation; unique recreational facilities; nonprofit organizational structures; grant writing assistance; community vision session facilitation, goal and objective planning; strategic planning, art and culture projects; guest speaker engagements, etc. The main objective is to work with leadership to develop programs, projects, and structures that can build local capacity and insure sustainability. With 25+ years in economic and community development, now retired, I am in a position to give back some of my training and experience. I hold the Certified Economic Developer designation, Fellow Member, Honorary Life Member, Economic Development Executive (University of Oklahoma), Emeritus status (American Economic Development Council). I attended the U S Chamber Organizational Management Institute University of Colorado and graduated from the University of Notre Dame Advanced Organizational Mgt. Institurte. Graduated from the University of Arizona Economic Course and the University of Oklahoma Economic Development Institute. In 1987-88, wrote and delivered rural development workshops for the AEDC around the nation. Served on the faculty of both the Arizona and University of Oklahoma programs for 12 years. In 1990, was awarded the Richard Preston Award for "long term contribution to the education of the practicing professional" by the AEDC Educational Foundation.
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First Name: Jeanette
Last Name: Chardon-Andino
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I am very interested in the Community Tool Box, especially interested in the section of Promoting Awareness of Health and Commnity Development Issues and Community Resources and everything that follows. I would like to have a hard copy of this information. A lot of the people that we work with does not have access to internet so for them it will be hard. I think the information provided is so important and vital I would really would like for them to have it. Printing from the computer takes a lot of time, there is editing and formating to do, and its time consuming. If there is a way I can have a hard copy of this information or some way I can have it I would appreciate it very much, and I know our lay-people too. Hope to hear from you soon, Thank You.
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First Name: Chip
Last Name: Drake
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Communities That Care grant utilizing NC Gov's Crime Comm. $ to create prevention programs, Also initiating a community wide strategic long range planning process for youth 0-18 through local Child family Resource Ctr & Juvenile Crime Prevention Council.
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First Name: Philip
Last Name: Stafford
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I'm a cultural anthropologist with the Evergreen Institute on Elder Environments, which seeks to create healthy environments for older adults through "place-based" activism. Heard about this great resource from Jane Lowe at Robert Wood Johnson.
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First Name: Carol
Last Name: Grimm
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I am the education/assessment coordinator for Fargo Cass Public Health.
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First Name: Shelly
Last Name: Baro
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I am the site coordinator for La Monte Caring Communities a site of the Pettis County Community Partnership. Missouri's initiative for Families and Children (Family Investment Trust. Most of the Caring Communities sites are school based and community linked, some of us are community based and school linked. I appreciate the information found in the Toolbox and will surely visit you again.
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First Name: Karen
Last Name: Edwards
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Grant Writer
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First Name: Wendy
Last Name: Clement
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Work as the Community Economic Development Coordinator for a small resource based community.
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First Name: Julie
Last Name: Letkiewicz
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Currently obtaining a degree in AODA Prevention and Certification as a Certified Prevention Professional. Enjoy networking and sharing information on community development, prevention programs, etc.....
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First Name: Carolina
Last Name: Dionco
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Studied community development and presently working in a bilateral cooperation on health care financing. My interest is on community health development and in particular community participation in health care financing.
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First Name: angela
Last Name: blackburn
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i represent a nonprofit organization, the partnership for youth. we provide full continuum of services to disadvantaged/troubled/at-risk youth who need assistance graduating from high school. last year 87% of our seniors graduated from high school and 83% of them transitioned into the post-secondary education, military and/or employment. in addition the partnership offers mental health counseling, substance abuse prevention/intervention/treatment services to youth and their families. we provide innovative and unique opportunities for youth to obtain employability skills training, job experience and follow-up assistance. our goal is to help young people succeed in school, the workplace and beyond.
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First Name: john
Last Name: schillinger
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Assoc. Professor of Environ.& Occupational Health at Calif. State University, Northridge. Involved with community env. education and research on community health and quality of life indicators.
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First Name: Jodi
Last Name: Thesenvitz
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I develop resources for The Health Communication Unit (Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto). I am also currently working with the Tobacco, Substance Abuse and Heart Health programs at the Hamilton Health Department.
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First Name: Alma
Last Name: Jones
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I manage the website for our development -- Marlborough Mesa -- thru neighborhoodlink.com. My husband and I purchased our home new 21 years ago and have always worked to assure that our neighborhood remains a very desirable one even thought we are not an Association. We have always been very involved w/city and community. We currently do not have signs to identify our development name at our entrances and I am searching out possible grants for that specific item. If you have input, I would appreciate that.
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First Name: Clive
Last Name: Macann
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Hi, I am involved in the Development of the MANGAKINO community as a whole. My role as "Team Leader" (Economy) is to develop Business inititives, Training opportunities, Employment opportunities for both the school leaver eg under 18 and the over 18 unemployed in the community. This is a major undertaking and will require a dedicated team of people to pull it off. Any assistance with ideas etc will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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First Name: kathleen
Last Name: mccook
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Studying libraries & community building
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First Name: Val
Last Name: Churko
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My role is the Community Educator for the East Central Health District.
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First Name: Frances
Last Name: Dowds
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Hi there good to see so much information freely available! surf on!!
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First Name: Heather
Last Name: Pattullo
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I work as a communitiy developer for the health board and was looking for "indicators of success" - i.e. benchmarks to note when community health and involvement has improved or increased.
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First Name: Kristin
Last Name: Smith
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I look after corporate relations for Volunteer Canada. We are the canadian national organization that promotes volunteerism. Currently I work with companies to get them and their employees more involved in the community.
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First Name: Lydia
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Hi, I am a community developer and I am currently working with the Prince Albert Health District, one of 32 in the province of Saskatchewan. I am looking forward to exploring the toolbox and using the information to assist me with the development work that I do with rural communities, aboriginal communities & low income families.
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First Name: John
Last Name: Moon
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I am the chairman of a community prevention group, called Community 2000 and I don't have a clue.
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First Name: Lela
Last Name: Claussen
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I am a graduate student at Univ. of Nebr. Medical Center. Your CTB site is a wonderful source of information for me and for my classes. Thanks so much.
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First Name: Diane
Last Name: Forsyth
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Coordinator of the Addiction Help Agency Cairns Inc. We provide counselling and group therapy for people wanting to overcome the harmful effects of drugs and alcohol and other addictive behaviours.
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First Name: Julie
Last Name: McKenzie
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interested in how communities are developed from within and assisted from outside, particulalrly Australian aboriginal communities.
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First Name: Liz
Last Name: Christiansen
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I am a grant writer for Linn County, Iowa.
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First Name: Corrine
Last Name: Wilson Baurick
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I am a graduating senior soon to receive my BS in Psychology. I am taking my first Community Psych class this fall--it has opened many avenues of study for me and I am in hopes of going into the Graduate program for Community Psych on the Fairbanks campus
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First Name: Eleni
Last Name: Digenis-Bury
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I am an Epidemiologist in Health Assessment with the City of Fort Worth Public Health Department. Part of my work includes conducting a community-wide needs assessment in the city.
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