Guestbook Entries

VERY IMPRESSIVE and EASILY ACCESSIBLE WEB-SITE! K-State Research and Extension is just beginning a 5-year project for at-risk youth programming and organizational capacity-building. I've been interested in the Community Change (tool kit) concept as it relates to organizational change. Have organizations used your concepts for capacity building in "communities of association" (ie., organizations such as Extension)? Thanks!

I am a long time progressive actavist currently working with The Florida Coalition For Peace And Justice

Have been to two forums now and are planning soon to introduce ourselves to the community.

I am a VISTA volunteer working through the Community Partnerships Division of Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft. Collins, CO. I am working on drug and alcahol abuse prevention programs.

I am project manager for Diabetes Today, a community health project which will do national training to create community interventions. Please keep us on your list for anything new and in particular for diabetes related community health projects.

public health administrator in southeastern New Mexico; acquainted with Jerry Schultz (attended two workshops so far); compiling resource materials to mobilize local health planning council with other community members

I am Coordinator of the Howard County Office of Substance Abuse Impact Services. In June 1998, members of our community were trained in Asset-Based Community Development. We are just beginning this process.

I'm on faculty at the Institute for Families in Society, University of SOuth Caroliona

As Director of Community and Public Involvement for the Vancouver Richmond Health Board, I am responsible for ensuring the board's principle of effective involvement of communities and particular populations in the development of health issues and solutions. With a staff of community developers we support communities to identify health issues, organize community responses and advise the board in their policy decision making. This website is a find; it confirms our direction in many areas but also provides a wealth of practical tips for our work. Thanks.

I'm a psychology undergraduate who has elected for community psychology and we have to spend 70 hours devloping a poverty stricken estate and have to do a portfolio assessment on community change.

Quality L.I.F.E. is an ongoing project established to reduce teen pregnancy. Please visit our website at www.qualitylife.com. Though we are in Dodge City, we are available across the internet via the qpals address to anyone wanting to get information or ask sensitive questions anonymously.

I got my MPH degree from KUMC on May, 1996. Right now I am the Epidemiologist for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Program. I have found the community tool box very informative and friendly. Congratulations!!

I am a student in a community psychology class and I would like to learn how to start an AIDS/HIV prevention program in my hometown high school.

Vice President for Human Resources at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend KS. Six months ago I moved to Great Bend from the Chicago area. I have a keen interest in collaborating with school districts and KHA to increase the ranks of health professionals at all levels in the state of Kansas.

I work with a school-based community nursing center. I am interested in linking Health Promotion and Community Organizing

Grad student...work w/community-based nonprofit endeavoring to develop a permanent housing site for migrant farmworkers.

Manager for ICAN - International Cancer Association Network Manager for Starflower Pub. P/L. - Pub Health Books etc. ICAN - 02-6-9251 4140 Fax - 02-6-9247 5453 , Sydney, Australia

I am not sure if I am contacting the right place, but it is worth a shot. I am looking to start a petition and wondering how to do it. Do you have any pointers or suggestions? Thanks.

I am not a professional activist, I do not know where to channel my e-mails and was hopinng your organization and your contacts may help. I am specifically seeking those who may have contacts in southern california, particularly L.A county... It is with the utmost urgency that I write this letter, in hope that I can help prevent an ecological disaster in a city that has precious little nature left as it is. Let me briefly explain the situation and hope that this plea can be acted upon before irreversible damage is done to perhaps the most historic wetland in all of Los Angeles - the La Brea Tar Pits at the Page Museum. Please listen to my observation of the situation as time is of the utmost importance since more destruction is scheduled for next week! My name is John Greenlee. I am the owner and operator of the Greenlee Nursery, a supplier of native grasses and author of "The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses", an authority on native grasses, sedges, and rushes. Because of my experience I was asked by the contractor, Valley Crest, to come to the site to save some native sedges, propagate and grow them so they might be replanted after landscape renovations to the museum grounds have been completed. Today, to my horror, as I went to the site to pick up these native sedges, I discovered that the original native reeds and rushes surrounding the historic Tar Pit ponds have been bulldozed out! Physically, mechanically removed. I was shocked and stunned by what I feel to be a gross mistake, one that may not be salvageable unless action is taken immediately to stop this destruction. Observing what I believe to be the systematic dismantling of one of the oldest and perhaps most historic wetlands in all of Los Angeles, I asked the contractors what was the reason for this action. I was told by the landscape foreman that the next step was going to be the sterilization of the pond by chemical treatment to remove all vestiges of the native plant materials and the spraying is to take place sometime next week! I believe we must act now to stop the spraying. There are some native rushes still left but these are slated to be killed by chemical application. Why is this happening? The architect's office, Fong and Associates, and the landscape contractors told me the county mosquito abatement district wants them removed to fight mosquitoes! This explanation is absurd and goes against all that I know about mosquito abatement. The presence of native rushes does not cause mosquito infestations. This is patently false. The prime breeding ground for mosquitoes is standing water in old tires, buckets, and anywhere water is left to collect in total absence of any vegetation. It is my understanding, and I have consulted with Neil Diboll, world renowned restoration ecologist, who supports my position that emergent aquatics, the term for the native rushes and tules, are essential habitat for insect predators. Predators, such as the dragon fly, are voracious consumers of mosquitoes. The city - in short - is being sold a bill of goods. Once again, someone mistakenly believes that taxpayer subsidized chemical applications is a better solution than a natural, balanced ecosystem. This belief is not only poorly conceived and without scientific substantiation, but there is far more to lose. What are we about to lose? Genetic material that has been on this very same site, since perhaps the days that those now extinct animals once trampled upon it to search for water - the native sedges and rushes. Once chemical sterilization is complete, this historic vegetation will cease to exist! Perhaps 45,000 years of ecology will cease to exist! Remnants of the rushes and sedges are still on the site. But, for how long? Dragon flys perch and molt on rushes and sedges. How does the county propose to replace the lost habitat? This grave mistake must be halted before any further damage occurs. We must act now, or we will lose this bit of remnant nature forever! If there is anything I can do please call me anytime day or night. office: (909) 629-9045 (leave a message and I will check in) pager: (888) 945-2362

I work with Community Support Programs, Inc. We are a private non-profit agency in Shreveport, La. The address is 610 Marshall, Suite 405, Shreveport, LA 71101.

I am the State-wide Community Organizer for OutFront Minnesota, the largest Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender organization in Minnesota

Teach undergraduate and graduate health education at the University of Texas at Austin and am involved in community-based research.

Parts of these web pages don't work, & it doesn't matter where you come from -- for example there are two ways to get to "Success Stories", "Champions" and "Lessons Learned", but it makes no difference. Also, the invitation to see the Client pages, and what they're doing is also misleading, since some communities make use of passwords, effectively shutting one out --- It's like getting at invitation, but when you show up at the door, the door is slammed in the face. AND your feedback button doesn't work either. A MOST frustrating morning.