Guestbook entries

Submitted:
First Name: Shari
Last Name: Starr
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
IM GEORGE SHANE STARRS MOTHER AND HAVENT SEEN MY SON IN 12 YEARS HIS FATHER CLYDE SHELDON HAS BEEN HIDING HIM FROM ME CAN SOMEONE HELP TO LOCATE THEM?
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Shari
Last Name: Starr
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Ilive At 38545 35th st East Palmdale Ca 93550 Iam 37 yrs old B.D 01/19/1962 My Son George Shane Starr was bourn 10/28 /1981
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: sarah
Last Name: procter
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hi . I am working in Bradford ,West Yorkshire U.K. on building community capacity through training to increase health and quality of life. I am particularly interested in training community activists to participate in decision making in health . Any thoughts?
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Heather
Last Name: Keefer
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I teach preschool in an early intervention program and am interested in volunteering my time outside of my work with young children.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Brian
Last Name: Byrd
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the Founder and Executive Director of an employment service for individuals with severe disabilities. Our agency and staff is committed to promoting the welfare and independence of the individuals we serve through employment. Our agency was founded in 1994 as a 501(c)3 organization and began with a committment to colloborate with all agecnies in the health care and human services fields,ie. state, local,federal,and other non-profits, to bridge the gap between the individuals and the services they are provided. By using the founding values of inclusion and independence, we hope to assist individuals to help themselves and become productive members of our society. By doing so, we feel that we are adding to the continuum of care within the healthcare systems and assisting agencies, public and private, to work together.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Nan
Last Name: Hawthorne
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Very happy to exchange the links you requested in CyberVPM.com Resources for Volunteer Programs web site at http://www.cybervpm.com. Excellent job on this site.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Michele
Last Name: Strasz
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Publisher of Internet magazine for child advocates in Michigan (http://www.jumpstartmich.com). We will share this with our readers.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: roy
Last Name: bowen
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
ex. director of multi-service social service in upper texas panhandle...based in amarillo. rape crisis..family violence.. counseling..child care...eduation & a an exciting hispanic community center out of a hispanic catholic church in hereford texas....this is old grass roots model of comm. dev., services, and advocacy. we are piloting roles in social service delivery involving faith community & agency like Family Support Services. Interested in similar models of development. w:806-372-3202, ext 3010
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: roy
Last Name: bowen
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
ex. director of multi-service social service in upper texas panhandle...based in amarillo. rape crisis..family violence.. counseling..child care...eduation & a an exciting hispanic community center out of a hispanic catholic church in hereford texas....this is old grass roots model of comm. dev., services, and advocacy. we are piloting roles in social service delivery involving faith community & agency like Family Support Services. Interested in similar models of development. w:806-372-3202, ext 3010
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: fred
Last Name: holmly
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I caught a presentation on the "toolbox" at the '98 Sophe mid-year conf. in San Antonio, I'm grateful for the opportunity to use it. Well done!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: rodel
Last Name: catindig
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
well i'm a student of the university of perpetual in laguna.and i'm studying now the way of an activist
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Jeff
Last Name: Sanders
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Robert Woods Johnson Grantee - Warm Springs Confederated Tribes, Warm Springs, Oregon. Chairman local Alchol & Drug Council, On local and state school board intrested in community action programs on healt & substance abuse - Met Jerry Schultz in Oakland, Calif.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Romaine
Last Name: Edwards
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I run a community mobilization program in Richmond,Virginia. My mission is to reduce crime through neighborhood revitalization.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Dawn
Last Name: McKinley
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Health Educator for the Urban League of Greater Hartford's Sistahs Helpin' Sistahs, an HIV Prevention Program in Hartford, CT.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Mario
Last Name: Reyes
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a public health professional employed with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. I am interested in preserving the public safety net and other safety net and traditional providers, particularly in light of the nationwide movement toward Medicaid managed care.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Max
Last Name: Llewelyn
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Community Liaison Manager for district local government working with community groups on all aspects including funding,coalition building, team building etc
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Barb
Last Name: Robinson
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
As Director of Planning and Development at Community Health Care, Inc. in Davenport, Iowa, I have been looking for strategic planning tools; and I'm always looking for grant opportunities. I look forward to exploring your site.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: DEBBIE
Last Name: ALLEN
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
This is one of the most comprehensive sites I have found for information on all aspects of the community. It is an excellent source for personal and professonal growth and development and I will certainly reccomend it to all of my colleagues. Thank you for such a professional, high quality product. I will be making inquiry about partnership (non-profit intentions) in the near future.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: David
Last Name: Tucker
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I run the Nonprofit Organization section on the Issue forum of Compuserve. I'm the past Executive Director of the Columbia (MD) forum. I'm a past Hopkins Fellow in Organizational and Cummunity Systems
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Dianne
Last Name: Travers-Gustafson
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Have worked in rural public health for 18 years; assistant professor at Creighton University's School of Nursing; farmer
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Jamie
Last Name: Tarbet
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
We are part of the Kansas Health Foundation Grant for Sexual Risk Reduction awarded by KU.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: amy
Last Name: bork
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
taking a contemporary community health problems course
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Mary Pat
Last Name: Breitfelder
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Director of Community Health Services at Hillcrest Family Services in Dubuque, Iowa
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Mordecai
Last Name: Nhabanga
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I a am a development officer in Mozambique
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Margery
Last Name: Pierce
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Asst. Director of Housing and Neighborhood Services, City of Oceanside. Staff for Healthy Cities Nutrition Program/community gardens and Youth Takin' On Tobacco 2000
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Debbie
Last Name: Borger
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I was experimenting with trying to use the Community Toolbox and thought I would take a peek at your RPC. Very good work!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Robert
Last Name: Hart
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Founding Chairperson Millennium Communiyt House Building Association - An organization whose objective is to get 1,000 communities to make a committment before the next millennium that they will commence building a seniors housing project-linked to services, in the first 3 years of the next millennium. I have worked with several International Organizations and have undertaekn assignments in over 30 countries.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Laura
Last Name: Sharon
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the assistant project manager of the CDC-funded Diabetes Today National Training Center. This is a 5 year project designed to train professionals to train community leaders how to mobilize and design programs on diabetes prevention and control.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Bobby
Last Name: Milstein
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an anthropologist working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where I coordinate evaluation activities across a range of program areas.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Darci
Last Name: Bergum
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a social work major at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, and we are currently studying community development and asset building in communities. I am writing a paper on asset- building, and found your site as I was searching the web. I am interested in projects that are going on in the United States, and basically any information you could pass on about community development with an asset base focus. Thanks!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: J'Vonnah
Last Name: Griffith
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Program coordinator for Witnessing in the Heartland Breast and Cervical Cancer Education Plan on entering MPH program in Summer of 99
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Lea
Last Name: McCloud
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Executive Director of Kansas Region office of NCCJ (in Wichita, KS) - the National Conference for Community and Justice, a non-profit human relations organizations established in 1927 as the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Our mission is to fight bias, bigotry and racism, and do that mainly through educational programs in the schools and diversity training in workplaces. I have learned about the tool box, as a result of our recent work with a new local coalition-- COPE the Consortium on Parenting Education, that recently received grant funds from ADAS through the SICA funds. Met Paul Evanson at training --he's a fantastic facilitator! Additional info about NCCJ can be found at the nccj.org website.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Steve
Last Name: Balcanoff
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Work on community projects at CT Children's Medical Center in Hartford. Work as a programmer, facilitator,collaborator, convener,...
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Becky
Last Name: Wassom
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I recently started a job as Community Prevention Consultant with the Northeast Kansas Regional Prevention Center and will be serving Pottawatomie County.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Jerry
Last Name: Jost
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I work with a non-profit (Kansas Rural Center) helping farmers adopt sustainable agricultural practices.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Melissa
Last Name: Childs
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I was just checking out the web sight so I would know where to go to do my documentation for LEAD, but I didn't see a link for Great Bend, so I tried the one for Hays but don't know the password information. Thanks, I try to see if Heather can assist me in that. Thanks Again, Melissa Childs
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Johnnie
Last Name: McClintick
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hello, I'm the coordinator for the Healthier Schools Planning Grant for the Lovington, New Mexico Municipal School District. The goal for this grant is to provide expertise to educators in effective grant writing. Information on this subject would be very helpful and names of other people who are coordinators in the same field as myself would be greatly appreciated.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Jessica
Last Name: Mendoza
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a freshman at Eastern New Mexico University and I was asked to check this out by a Healthier Communities Task Force group in Portales, NM.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Melinda
Last Name: Lloyd
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Aloha from Hawaii! I am a social worker working for a Hawaiian organization. Our target population is orphan and other destitute Hawaiian children. Community building is the new "buzzword" in our agency and we are working hard in partnership with individuals, families, and communities towards a goal of a thriving Hawaiian community. We just got hooked up to the internet at work and I am building up a community building folder in my "favorite places" bookmark. Needless to say, this site is one of them! Malama Pono (take care).
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Letty
Last Name: Rutledge
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Please contact me regarding possibly presenting a workshop or sponsoring an exhibit table for our annual New Mexico Public Health Association meeting in April 15-16. Your materials would fit in nicely with the theme of our conference..."Upstream Downstream, Collective Action to Improve Public Health" Please email me or call me at 505 841-8378. Thank you I look forward to hearing from someone soon. Ps.. I am also the Data Coordinator/Planner for the NM Primary Care/Rural Health Bureau.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Hall
Last Name: Loyce
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Have Windows 97. I am an RN in the Mission & Community Health Dept. of ST. FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER IN MONROE, LA. I am a manager responsible for Community Health Initiatives/Partnerships working to establish school-based clinics in our city. Our department is involved with social accountability programs & wellness & prevention.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Martha
Last Name: Stowe
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I do community development work in the area of injury prevention. We are working with the Safe Communities concept. I am a graduate of KU School of Social Work!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Mary
Last Name: Kneebone
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Urban Planner with the City of Dallas
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: elizabeth
Last Name: archambault
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
working for a non-profit corp. that is involved with medicare bene. rigths.My background includes a MA and a MSW. I have worked for University of Washington and City of Seattle.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Kaye
Last Name: Wallace
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Social worker with a HUD Supportive Housing Community Outreach Grant. Main interests in areas of advocacy: homelessness, mental illness, affordable housing.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: priscilla
Last Name: boston
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Had previously registered at a different job/email address
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Mercy
Last Name: Siordia
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Program Officer for the California Wellness Foundation in the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative. Currently, developing a grantmaking program to increase capacity of communities to address teen pregnancies.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Chris
Last Name: Smith
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Executive Director of Kendall-Whittier Ministry in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Eunice
Last Name: Lincoff
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Through employment at Jefferson County Community Action Council I am facilitating the Community Coalition for Alternatives To Violence. In existence for 2 years, the CCATV has chosen its primary target - junior high school students. We have employed a staff person through funds from Ohio Department of Health Disadvantaged Youth grant - and established a group mentoring project for these youngsters. Within a few months - it has grown to over 60 students. We are now in process of establishing an after-school program for these youth, with funds from Ohio Children's Trust Fund. We are also organizing to conduct a comprehensive Community Needs and Resources Assessment, using manual from Family Resource Coalition of American.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Rosetta
Last Name: Keeton
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Just assigned the task of developing a community service department for a healthcare system (primarycare for underinsured) Need help
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?: