Community WorkStations | Community Tool Box

WorkStations provide customized, integrated supports for collaboration, communication, and co-learning within and among community initiatives. They provide online access to support tools, shared materials, contacts, success stories, and other resources.

WorkStation features include:

Customizable look to fit your group (e.g., its logo, mission, colors)
Document Sharing - a library and check-out system to post and collaborate on documents
Calendar/ event registration feature compatible with Microsoft Outlook
Announcements - set email alerts to let collaborators know what's new
Shared Contacts with your collaborators
Online Discussion Board - post and respond to ideas and topics
Social Media Feeds for an interactive connection to your Facebook and Twitter accounts
Success Stories - a blog feature, either public or private
Capacity Building Tools - a list of online resource links
Photo Gallery to share important images about the group
Project Management feature to help you track important tasks and their progress
Ask an Advisor - a feature of the Community Tool Box

Additional integrated, unique features (at an optional extra cost) can include:

Community Check Box to record, graph, analyze, and report information to different stakeholders
Online ticket system to request and track technical assistance

Content of the WorkStations can be transparent or secure, depending on your needs. Users log in with usernames and passwords to upload information (such as a document or a calendar entry). Content can easily be designated public or private (with the ability to give access by group or by individual). Additionally, users can easily make automated requests to the administrator for enhanced access.

Example WorkStations with public main pages:

People are talking. Here's what they're saying:

"I have been coaching coalitions for the past 20-plus years and have never been able to develop, facilitate, and achieve consensus on coalition processes so quickly. The Community Tool Box WorkStation and its capabilities were instrumental in helping our coalition create, collaborate, and obtain consensus on and adopt our logo, vision, mission, and goals in the span of eight weeks"

- Curtis Hanock, Douglas County Health Youth Coordinator

"This is perfectly aligned to fit [our project's] needs. I didn’t realize this technology already existed!"

- Director of a multi-site national initiative

"I consider the WorkStation and [Community Check Box] invaluable one-stop shopping for user-friendly supports. We have one-click access to a shared repository of information. Our project team and our grantee communities are spread out across the state. Given this geographic dispersal, we need a central location for information and a tool that supports communication, accessing resources, and managing timelines, and the WorkStation made that possible."

- Consultant for substance abuse prevention efforts

"If we had had this all along, we would have been so much better organized. Thank you, thank your team."

- WorkStation user involved with a multi-site prevention effort

Community WorkStation users include:

Non-profit and non-governmental organizations
Foundations and their grantees
Statewide systems for improving population health and well-being
National initiatives and their regional partners
Global health initiatives

Please contact toolbox@ku.edu or (785) 864-0533 to inquire about obtaining a WorkStation for your own initiative.