Guestbook Entries

Hello Steve: I am presently managing the Diabetes Today National Training Center project, based at R.O.W. Sciences in Rockville, MD. We are funded with a five year grant from the CDC Division of Diabetes Translation. We will be training state Diabetes Control Programs and their partners in community organization and diabetes control and prevention. We are wondering about how we can collaborate with the Community Tool Box and possibly incorporate it into the training we will be doing starting later this year. Please call or e-mail me with your suggestions. I am very curious to know what you have done that might be similar to our efforts and I am very willing to collaborate with you. My work phone is 301-294-5657. Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

I am a health futurist and medical economist, currently writing a book on telemedicine. I am planning to include a brief description of The Community Toolbox as a sidebar.

I work with Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools as a Subject Area Coordinator in the Department of Vocational, Adult and Community Education, serving as a central office support person for Family and Consumer Sciences, Health Science and Technology, and Tech Prep/Applied Academics. In the Family and Consumer Sciences area, I work with high school child care occupational programs which provide infant/toddler day care for teen parents and community parents who are enrolled in our educational programs in high school or adult education. Our day care centers are supported by Family Resource Centers and all four of these centers are in large part grant-funded. I am always looking for new "community solutions/tools" and your website interested me very much. I heard about your site through being the Tennessee contact person for the AAFCS Early Childhood Initiative. In preparation for our TAFCS Annual Conference next week, I am surfing all sites listed in the Monthly Memo for the Early Childhood Initiative. This may be more than you want to know about me and our interests; but thanks for being among those with children's interests at heart! Jane Gough, CFCS TAFCS VP Cooperative Relations and Chair, TN Early Childhood Initiative

I work in a hospital and am the Director of Community Health. We have some innovative programs going here in Denver and I'm interested in learning more about what others are doing.

MSW, KU, 1977; PhD, U of Tenn, 1995; Lt Col USAF; currently engaged in establishing healthy communities initiatives at 80 USAF bases around the globe; particularly interested in success stories (large and small), lessons learned, and outcome evaluation (for local community members use -- not forr researchers - - although there are opportunities there too). Great site; good rference materials.

I have an eclectic background in practice/policy/research in moving forward community prevention/devleopment agenda. I previously served as the director of prevention for a state health department and now am setting up a national program office for a new RWJ funded initiative that will support community coalitions addressing asthma.

I run a company called Vernacular Technology and Techniques and I am E.D. of a non-profit called The Institute for Vernacular Philosophy.

Trying to raise funds for a mentoring program for youth to prevent substance abuse and other poor choices youth might make.

I am a Registered Nurse (B.S.N.) and Coordinator for the Health Learning Resource Center at Westark College in Fort Smith, Arkansas. We are currently in the early planning stages for our new 6 million dollar Health Careers Center. Your web site is an invaluable resource. Thank goodness I have found you!

co-director Tools for Community Regeneration project of the Hastings (local development) Trust, a British PVO. We have a working prototype database focussing on 'tools' that people can use for their own local projects. We are anxious to get in touch with other groups & organisations with similar objectives.

I am a Family and Consumer Science teacher who is very interested in Brain research of the young child. I feel we need to be doing more in our communities for the young child and their parents so they will be ready for learning. Prenatal care and early child development is a preventive measure to many of the social, emotional, and cognitive development of a child later in life. I am interested in grants which would be available to our communities for a early childhood project.

I am a special education teacher who is planning an alternative classroom for high school students with disabilities and substance abuse issues.

We are a partner in the Kids Count in Michigan Project, with the specific focus of making the Kids Count data more relevant, useful, and USED BY community advocates to change local, state, and federal policy making affecting children.

am doing work in a volunteer program and would like to start some mor e programs to help our familys in need am a mother with 11 children of my own and truely have a heart for people and special the ones who need a helping hand

Executive Director, Shawnee Regional Prevention and Recovery Services, Topeka, KS

I am social worker that has been working for a Salvadoran not for profit organization (FUSAL)in the areas of community development, specially in the areas of rural health, nutrition and sanitation.

Staff member of International Center for Health Leadership Development (Kellogg Foundation funded) at University of Illinois at Chicago.

Im a graduate planner and this page has helped me understand much more than could ever be taught in class. thank-you

I'm the Program Coordinator for the Wisconsin Committee to Prevent Child Abuse. We are working on a project to promote leadership development using the skills developed in parent-led mutual support groups. We are looking for ways to integrate mutual support groups into the fabric of family support services in communities across the state. We have a state Parent Leadership Team, made up of members of support groups in different areas of the state, who are working on this project with us.

Our organization does research,development and implementation in the human service field. Currently, a proposal for assisting with the educational development of educationally disadvantaged youth has been prepared. We are looking for potential funding of a very interesting and innovative concept that involves incentives for families and youth. Any organizations that would be interested in reviewing the proposed concept with me are invited to contact me at the above email address or by mail at People Tree, 3004 Arlington Drive, Springfield, IL 62704.

Assistant to the Superintendent for Urban Affairs, Lawrence, MA Public Schools I am interested in educational issues and community mobilization. I find your Tool Box to be very helpful. It's a great idea.