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First Name: Hugh
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Housing Officer with responsibilty for community capacity building and consultation.
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First Name: Marie M.
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Oversee community health improvement initiatives and community partnership building for Hartford Hospital.
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First Name: Nina
Last Name: Ghanem
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I am the Health Educator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Health Center
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First Name: Edgar
Last Name: Medina
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It's been very useful for my job as Community Education Coordinator. Could I know if I can buy the book? Please, let me know. Thanks.
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First Name: Catherine
Last Name: Morley
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My role is to work with the statutory and voluntary agencies to develop new procedures to ensure more co-ordinated responses to the needs of disadvantaged communities
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First Name: Max
Last Name: Freund
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An excellent site! I work for Play for Peace, a youth development/intercultural reconciliation program. I'm sure that many of the resources on the site will come in very handy in my work here in SA. Keep up the good work!
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First Name: Jim
Last Name: Wolk
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I am Director of the School of Social Work at Georgia State University. Our MSW program has an exclusive concentration in Community Partnerships.
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First Name: lawrence
Last Name: chiaramonte md
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I am joining the hunts point multi service center[long standing medical service out-pt center] to start out patient free standing asthma center in this hispanic community with high asthma- need to build community links please advice my try for Robert Wood Johnson allies against asthma grant thnks
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First Name: David
Last Name: Lee
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Social Worker, graduate student in public health at University of Washington. Career focus is developing disease prevention and health promotion programs for disenfranchised communities, with a focus on the African American gay/lesbian community and HIV/AIDS and substance use.
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First Name: Marnie
Last Name: Dodson
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Wonderful site! Very informative!
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First Name: Linda J
Last Name: Cantine
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I am a native NYer in the process of relocation to Durham NC. I'm in the planning stages of starting a Non-Profit Organization. I plan to have it up & running by Y2K. Your site has been extremely helpful. Thanks
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First Name: Kate
Last Name: Reynolds
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Greetings from a part time Community Development lecturer at Murray Institute of Tertiary and Further Ed... and a fulltime commnuity activist enjoying spending some government resources surfing for like minded people and orgs...
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First Name: Triyoga
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I was an executive member of Malang City Forum that work on behalf of Malang City in implementing good governance and healthy city program. Malang City Forum is non profit organization that formed by the communities to solve development problems in every aspects. We will be glad if we could share everything about community development with high commited institutions like University of Kansas. Our main goal in this year is building a grand scenario to Malang as a healthy communities.
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First Name: Matilde
Last Name: Alvarado
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I am the coordinator for minority health education and outreach activities at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH. I love your community tool box that I just discovered. it will be very helpful since I am in the process of developing an evalution tool for a lay health educators lead program for Latinos. Thanks for doing such a nice job.
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First Name: kassem
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Graduate student at the American Universitiy of Beirut
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First Name: Susanna
Last Name: Shuey
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I am a public health educator at the Monongalia County Health Department in Morgantown, WV
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First Name: Shauwea
Last Name: Hamilton
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Could you please add my organization's site to your links (if possible both funding and community) the address is: http://ocd.rutgers.edu Thank you.
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First Name: Renie
Last Name: Carniol
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I am a program officer with a healthcare foundation in New Jersey called the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey. We fund non-profits that improve the health of the Newark residents, further medical education, medical research and improve the health of the MetroWest Jewish community. See our website at fdcenter.org/grantmaker/hfnj
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First Name: DeMecia
Last Name: Wooten-Irizarry
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I am currently the Director of External Relations for a non-profit organization providing housing, rehabilitation and rehabilitative skills training to mentally and developmentally disabled individuals.
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First Name: Katherine
Last Name: Boydell
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I am a health services research scientist conducting qualitative and quantitative research in the field of children's health/mental health. I am currently involved in evaluating a comunity academic alliance focused on parenting involving The Hospital for Sick Children and 22 community partners.
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First Name: Leah
Last Name: Kinney
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10/22--Loyola University Sitting listening to Vincent speak right now--very excited to see such a fantastic TOOL! I'm looking forward to nosing around!!
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First Name: Bashir
Last Name: muhammad
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Community Technology Coordinator at the Westside Health Authority - Liason for Every Block a Village
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First Name: Dana
Last Name: Mrozowski
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I am a student at Western Michigan University majoring in Community Health Education and Gerontolgy.
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First Name: Sheri
Last Name: Benya
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I am a senior nursing student at UNCW. I have several other degrees (LPN, ART, BS in Biology with a minor in Psychology). I plan to continue working on education at completion of current studies and like to be informed.
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First Name: jocelyn
Last Name: sellers
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I'm a 2nd year grad student studying social work. My concentration is communities and organizations. Resume available upon request.
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First Name: Colleen
Last Name: Daniel
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Third semester masters student in Human Development at Washington State University.
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First Name: Claude
Last Name: Hall, Jr. MA, MHA
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I offer consulting services in health systems/network design, governance, management, and evaluation through my company, Health System Synergies. I have been involved in these areas by directing national programs administered in trade associations (AHA - Community Care Network Demonstration and APHA - Model Standards for Community Preventive Services); state health departments in planning and local health systems (Virginia and Idaho), and in hospital/health system planning.
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First Name: linda
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employee of SRS, will be doing Connect Kansas training for staff
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First Name: Annette
Last Name: Hopgood
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Director, School and Community Nutrition Georgia Department of Education
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First Name: Ruth
Last Name: Shantz
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I work for Chelsea Community Hospital and chair our Community Health Improvement Leadership Council. I also represent our organization in the Washtenaw County Health Improvement Plan (HIP), a broad coalition begun in 1994 to improve the health of the citizens of Washtenaw County, Mi. I sit on HIP's Assessment Team, whose task it is to help local coalitions identify effective interventions for the health issues that they select to address. I was reading RWJF's most recent edition of Advances and saw an article about your website.
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First Name: Fran
Last Name: Snyder
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Assisting communities to build collaborative partnerships
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First Name: wendy
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families first in white oaks is a community action program for children, funded by health canada to strengthen and support families with children ages zero to six. community development and community involvement in all aspects of our programming is an important focus for us.
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First Name: Laura
Last Name: Burns
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I am a public health nurse supervisor in charge of the child health program for Chesterfield Health District.
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First Name: Ernie
Last Name: Lang
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Researcher - working in area of local community initiatives to tackle alcohol and other drug problems
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First Name: Joel
Last Name: Brody
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I am the Director of a new partnership in the Toronto area. We are some 22 different front-line child serving agencies and organizations and a group of hospital and university based researchers. Our aim is to identify, refine, develop, conduct and evaluate a range of parenting programs for families of young children.
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First Name: Michelle
Last Name: Hurtubise
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I work as a health promoter with a community health centre working with seniors, youth and people with disabilities. We are undertaking a community needs and capacity assessment and want to incorporate more principles of community development into the process (the process is the end and the means idea). We were referred to your site from the Centre for Health Promotion, University of Toronto.
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First Name: Delia
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Retired, long time Bahai, B.A. in Sociology,love outdoor activities, quilter, reader.
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First Name: Maisha
Last Name: Gibson
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Co-Founderand President of National Parenting Conference, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to provding educational and fun activities to parents and their children in a "professional" conference setting.
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First Name: Vanessa
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I am the Community Development Coordinator for a national substance abuse prevention project. The purpose is to partner with Head Stat programs and train parents, commuity residents, and community leaders in advocacy and community development skills.
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First Name: Tula
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I am active in our community association and I am a health care professional.
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First Name: Kerry
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I work at Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Washington
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Community Interventions Consultant for the Missouri Community Health Assistance Resource Team (CHART). Missouri communities mobilize to improve their quality of life through CHART by receiving information, data and training, and assistance with resource identification. CHART is a Missouri Department of Health-administered initiative based on four principles - community involvement, commitment, control and accountability.
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First Name: Nadira
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Like this site and would like to be updated by e-mail.
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First Name: vicki
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a bahai looking for other bahai`s to chat with in the states or around the world,like to relocate need alot of info...plus i`m new at this & silly me thinks it`s real fun to chat or just email to anywhere out of my back yard :):)
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Just participated in chat forum coordinated by RPC's Jason Reynolds....one which Vince helped make a reality. Excellent work!!! As people learn to change their behavior patterns...phoning and traveling to meetings should be a thing of the past. Your site is a WEALTH of information, inspiration and innovation for those of us working in communities. Keep up the great work...whatever feeds your ideas...keep that up, too! Tell the chancellor I said, "Fund these people to a higher level!" (Lot of good that will do you...I am a K-State grad; which when you consider it, is all the more proof of your excellence! Ha.)
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Great source for my Social Work Practice III class dealing with Macro social work. Keep up the good work. Has really helped out alot!
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Hello, I have recently been appointed to undertake participatory evaluation research in collaboration with the HFAUK network. Congradulations on such an excellent web site do you have a discussion forum for exchange of ideas and methods of approaching PER?
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student, master's in nursing, family nurse practitioner. Taking a health econ course where we have to do a business proposal, ideally something with a community focus.
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First Name: roddy
Last Name: digges
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I work as web manager for the Health Education Authority in London - currently trying to source materials to aid local community building (capacity development) around the UK. Especially interested in the evidence base for community based programs. I found a very interesting paper on the complexity of evidence gathering in this area - congratulations on a great site.
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