Guestbook Entries

Submitted:
First Name: Ann
Last Name: Moore
City/Town: St. Johnsbury
State/Province: Vermont
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an adjunct faculty member at Springfield College School of Professional and Continuing Studies at Springfield College Campus in St. Johnsbury, VT. I have been teaching a number of human services courses over the course of the last 11 years at both the Community College of Vermont and Springfield College
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I have included the link to the Community Tool Box (CTB) as a resource for a college course entitled: "Issues in Research" which I am teaching this summer. I am assigning various sections of the CTB and asking them to read, summarize, and then reflect on what they have learned. The students in this class will move on to a 1 year group and community project and will need the skills, knowledge and experience to conduct a human service research project in their community with 2-3 other classmates. I also conduct review sessions in class in which the students share their reflections on what they have learned on their own from the CTB.
Submitted:
First Name: Lisa
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Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Had an idea and googled it...and this page came up that drew my interest.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Using the vision/mission statement information/summary to help me organize my thoughts/idea -- to give it more focus and clarity. Thankful for this introduction and information on clear organization with a clear, meaningful structure/purpose. Best regards and thanks again.
Submitted:
First Name: Jacquelijn
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Country: Netherlands
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I work for the Small Water Well Entrepreneur project. Our aim is to train unemployed graduates into water entrepreneurs and through them provide water to rural households in the North of Benin. The project work is mainly done by volunteers like myself.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I am using the SWOT chapter and templates as part of the training we organize for potential water entrepreneurs. In total we will train 40 entrepreneurs. The material is great. Thank you so much.
Submitted:
First Name: Juana
Last Name: Tiffa
City/Town: Kenema
State/Province: Eastern
Country: Sierra Leone
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
My name is Juana Tiffa from Sierra Leone, West Africa. I am practicing to be a project manager in future.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I am going to use this community Tool Box to help to analyse and be better project writer in future
Submitted:
First Name: Julie
Last Name: Navarre
City/Town: East Lansing
State/Province: MI
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the Field Director and am one of 7 instructors teaching a 7 week summer advanced standing foundation practice course.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
We are using the Assessing Community Needs and Resources toolkit, Chapter 3, sections 1 and 14 (developing a plan to assess community needs and resources and SWOT). We'll flip the class and use case examples (not necessarily from the toolkit) that students will use to apply these assessment tools in class.
Submitted:
First Name: Ma Teresa
Last Name: de Guzman
City/Town: Quezon City
State/Province: Metro Manila
Country: Philippines
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an Anthropologist, a Faculty of the Behavioral Sciences Department, University of the Philippines Manila, a Consultant and a Researcher
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Great very useful especially for my classroom and community lectures.
Submitted:
First Name: Gaylene
Last Name: Van wijk
City/Town: Masterton
State/Province: Wairarapa
Country: New Zealand
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Peer advocate and Support worker offering a free service to people with mental health issues and addiction in the Wairarapa and wellington region. We offer advocacy, support and education services.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
For programmes and forms to be more efficient in our service and meet the needs of all that we support.
Submitted:
First Name: Ini
Last Name: Usanga
City/Town: Cork
State/Province: Cork
Country: Ireland
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a survivor of family violence and childhood sexual harassment. Now I use my journey and experience to empower other survivors and victims.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
To develop resource materials for empower survivors and develpo trainings for community wide eduction, policy makers and educational institutions
Submitted:
First Name: Mike
Last Name: Powers
City/Town: joint cities of Mississauga, Brampton & Caledon
State/Province: ON
Country: Canada
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I have recently been appointed Director, Business Development to investigate and lead a path to Sustainability for Community Door, CD is a community based organization to support shared facilities in the charities and social service delivery agencies sector
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
As a relatively young organization (c 5 yrs) in our first endeavour we are reviewing our successes and shortfalls. Using VMOSA, we are re-evaluating our original vision & strategy from the various learns and a changing landscape in government and private funding. From basic question - are we adding value to the community, to how to expand our facilities and offerings; VMOSA is part of my preparation for an upcoming Board Retreat for the noted review
Submitted:
First Name: ARIANIE
Last Name: ATOLBA
City/Town: LAMUT
State/Province: IFUGAO
Country: Philippines
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I work as a project assistant and secretariat to a human capacity building program in the province of Ifugao, Philippines.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Working first time for a human capacity building project, your "toolbox" helped me in doing tasks I have never done before like conducting FGD and others. Your toolbox contents are so practical and very helpful. I owe you thanks!
Submitted:
First Name: Daniel
Last Name: Makoko
City/Town: Greenville,
State/Province: NC
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a graduate student in Public Health (MPH) at the University of New England, Maine. I work at the Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, North Carolina. I am the founder of a non-for- profit corporation Toloha village patnerships of Tanzania. I am currently working to implement a health care center in Toloha village, Tanzania (E. Africa).
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
This is my first time to join, but I am looking forward into it to help me implement this project.
Submitted:
First Name: Domingo Jr
Last Name: Nievarez
City/Town: PASIG CITY
State/Province: METRO MANILA
Country: Pilipinas
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm currently working as Planning Officer in the Planning Service of the Department of Education in the Philippines. My work usually focuses on the preparation of planning and budgeting proposal, monitoring of programs and projects and providing technical assistance to our field units and offices. In addition to this, I'm also the sole coordinator of the Department in the convergence program of the Government which is the Bottom-Up Budgeting (BUB) Program. BUB empowers basic sectors in the communities as they are made to be officially part of the planning process in the local government units. Basic sectors also involves in the monitoring of projects implementation.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
As mentioned in the above response, this community tool box will help me understand better the dynamic and importance of participative planning between government officials and its people. I'am planning to advocate this kind of planning process in different localities to have a shared goals and responsibilities among all people.
Submitted:
First Name: Cassia
Last Name: Havens
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Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am part of FullVerdict team, a team who would give much needed information before purchasing anything online.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
We currently have a blog which we call FullVerdict where we publish articles related to health and self-help. We believe that community tool box can help us write helpful articles to our site in order to deliver the best reading experience where one will learn something before leaving our website.
Submitted:
First Name: Pamela
Last Name: Stickler
City/Town: North Augusta
State/Province: SC
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
The RECing Crew is a non-profit organization that provides leisure and recreational programs for individuals with intellectual and/or physical disabilities from our community. We currently have 200+ individuals that participate in one or more of our programs.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Staff Hiring and Training
We would love to learn more and cannot wait to get your newsletters!
Submitted:
First Name: akadiri
Last Name: faisol
City/Town: ilorin
State/Province: kwara
Country: nigeria
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
undergraduate student at the federal university of Ilorin in Nigeria state as foreigner from Benin Republic
Submitted:
First Name: GARY L.
Last Name: MOODY
City/Town: ALTADENA
State/Province: CALIFORNIA
Country: UNITED STATES
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Youth Specialist 1 @ Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services in Altadena, CA. 91001. I am part of a team who coordinates our Mentoring for Life Mentoring Program. I have been in the mental health profession for over 40 years with a BA in Sociology and MBA in Business Administration. I have been with HSCFS for about two (2) years.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I was researching programs and sites that foster mentoring and currently recruiting mentors for our organization. I came across your site 5-12-16 for resources and collaborations with other organization in our area.
Submitted:
First Name: Beth
Last Name: McKenzie
City/Town: Anderson
State/Province: Indiana
Country: United States of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a licensed Masters level social worker currently working with a community health center (one month) in Indiana in Grants and Development. I am new to health care and need all of the assistance that is available.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
For starters, I'm using Community Health Improvement online courses to increase effectiveness within our organization
Submitted:
First Name: Kathy
Last Name: Myer
City/Town: Indianapolis
State/Province: INDIANA
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Teacher and Educational Leader
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Reinforcing learning about leadership styles.
Submitted:
First Name: Shirah
Last Name: Chante
City/Town: Missouri City
State/Province: TX - Texas [USA]
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a relationship coach and artist who uses creative arts to develop educational courses to help the community of women and youth that are tired of failed relationships build better, longer lasting lives full of loving family and friends.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I AM using the Community Tool Box to help me develop my educational courses,
Submitted:
First Name: LuQman
Last Name: Abdullah
City/Town: Philadelphia
State/Province: Pennsylvania
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
As a community leader I work to assist members of the community organize and develop projects and programs. As a school leader, I work to provide leadership in strategic planning, curriculum development, research and evaluation, exceptional student education, student services, career, community, and technical education, instructional media and technology, federal programs, and staff development.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Community Tool Box assists me in the development of various projects and to keep my support team on task.