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Hi, i have lean a lot from you so now i want to reference about you , what can i say?

Hi, I just had joined your organization. I like to learn more about leadership programs, I am a supervisor and property manager. Any ideas you have in mind would be greatly appreciated.

Hi CTB,
I live in a small town in central CA but I grew up in.... Kansas!!!!! So I had to write to you. My dad was a prof at KSU. No kidding. Kansas was a wonderful place to grow up. Wouldn't trade it for anything!

Here's my question: I haven't spent a lot of time reading everything on your site; there is SO much to read! I'm hoping you can point me in the best direction. I am a parent of two school aged children. Our town is about 40% White, 55% Latino, 5% Punjabi. 70% of the kids in our schools qualify for free/reduced meals, so money is an issue for most folks. Many of the Latinos and Punjabi adults do not speak English. Our schools are in pretty poor shape, both in terms of academics and facilities. In Nov. '18, some people (of which I am one) would like to pass a school bond or a tax so that we can raise money to fix the schools and haev better programs. However, we all agree that the community is not unified and there is a lack of trust between different groups. In addition, our largest voting majority are elderly or "empty nesters", so they no longer have a child in school.

I believe that we need to figure out how to build trust between the groups and unite the community, so that we can pass a bond or a tax for the schools.

HOW can we build community and trust between such a wide variety of people, who are different in age, culture/ethnicity, socioeconomics, and language, and who have very different goals?

Thank you very much!

We are looking to start a youth peer group for 14-24 year olds living with a mental illness. I would like to have a contract for the youth to sign when they first join stating they will be respectful and no aggression. Is there anything I could use as a guideline. While I want this to be their group I feel there needs to be some guidelines and responsibilities for the participants.

Can you provide the names of the author(s) who wrote Section 8. Ethical Leadership? I would like to use it in an essay.

How can I obtain all of the power point presentation you have to offer on how to start Support Groups. I am the Social Worker for Lititz Hematology and Oncology Care in Lititz, PA. We are going to build and start several support groups that address the needs of our particular population (cancer patients, cancer survivors, their families, etc) we are going to develop groups that address such things as How Cancer Impacts Everything and Everyone, How to continue to work fulltime or part time with Cancer, How do I explain this to my kids, and many others.

Hi, I'm a MSW intern and I want to do a community-based participatory action research. I need some examples of things I can. I am in a community organizing class. I want to work with fathers who were involved with child welfare system, and how to build a support system for them in the community.

How do we develop a structure a for a community based organization whose strategic plan has expired and has no constitution?

It is permissible for us to use these examples in a training session we are conducting for community service organizations in Howard County, Maryland?

I am looking to develop an assessment of baseline health information for a group of people in a different country that has asked for a health clinic to be built with the help of another outreach group. The outreach group needs to find a way to establish why the community wants the health clinic and what it will be used for, along with a baseline assessment. My degree is in public health so I have been asked to help with this. It has been so long since I have created something like this and was looking for a place to start as there are a number of obstacles to overcome with this assessment (like language, culture/societal norms etc). Any guidance would be appreciated.

I will be installed as the 2016 President of the Ruritan National Foundation (RNF) Board in January 2016 in Jacksonville, FL. Ruritan National has about 1,000 clubs and 28,000 members primarily located in the small towns and rural communities of the eastern U.S. Our RN clubs focus on community service, fellowship, and goodwill. Most of our clubs offer educational scholarships and provide a variety of community service projects.
RNF has a corpus of about $4 million and annual earnings of about $200,000 are used to encourage local RN clubs to provide scholarships to community students.
The RNF Board would like to double our corpus in the next five years (2016-20) to over $8 million. The persons in line to serve at RNF Presidents over the next five years have agreed to develop a strategic plan to raise the $4 million and to work diligently to achieve $8 million and use it to more than double our current impact.
Can your Advisiors help lead us thru a strategic planning process beginning in January 2016?
Your suggestions and assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
Fred Payne, 2016 RNF President, 864-884-8899 or
FPayne@greenvillecounty.org

I have two questions:
1. Do you know of any online course about Mental Health in the community? if so, could you give me the names and so on, if not, could you guide and coach me in setting up such a course?
2. I have started studying ecology related topics and problems. What impresses me most is the number of organisations which deal with it, both nationally and globally. In my opinion the disadvantages of this are bigger than the advantages. Are there also organisations which streamline and coordinate all these or some of these organisations? If so, which? (Tellus, 350.org.?)if not, do you think it would be a good idea to organize such thing?