Guestbook Entries

Submitted:
First Name: Austin
Last Name: Jeffers
City/Town: Surprirse
State/Province: Arizona
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hi,

I am a Nurse Practitioner Student based in Arizona.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
New to the service, however would love to make a difference in the community
Submitted:
First Name: Clyde
Last Name: Howell
City/Town: Columbia
State/Province: SC
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Manager of Employee Engagement (Organizational Development)
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Building a course on Process Facilitation to be used internal to the City. Your site has an excellent summary of this topic and feels very familiar in style and substance.
Submitted:
First Name: Debbie
Last Name: Maysey
City/Town: Roseburg
State/Province: Oregon
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a HUD Certified Housing Counselor. I have been tasked with helping to create a Strategic and Action Plan. Honestly, I was asked to learn about the Theory of Change. I am not a College Graduate and will have to learn as I go. For me that means researching and learning everything I can.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
No but when I found your site, I decided it will be my go to resource for gaining the knowledge I need to perform the task assigned to me.
Submitted:
First Name: Anja
Last Name: Jepsen
City/Town: München
State/Province: Bavaria
Country: Deutschland
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hi, I just wanted to give congratulations on this great functionality. Thanks for the initiative, best Anja
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Yes, I just started working with.
Submitted:
First Name: Brenda
Last Name: Burns
City/Town: Fishersville
State/Province: Virginia
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
RN in BSN program. Nursing career of 45 years.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
To help with development of a case management program for a school project
Submitted:
First Name: Andrea
Last Name: Fiero
City/Town: Lexington
State/Province: KY
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the founder and Excecutive Director of Bluegrass Advocates. Bluegrass Advocates is dedicated to giving a voice to vulnerable populations in Central Kentucky and nationally. We are working hard to address shame and social isolation and appreciate others' resources.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
We have not yet used it, but are looking forward to it!
Submitted:
First Name: Teresa
Last Name: Kelley
City/Town: Belleville
State/Province: Illinois
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
At 57, Erase only attended and graduated Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville CPRS \ CRSS Success Program. I have sat for my PRS & and now Creditentialed. I have 35 yrs (36 in Dec) lived experience in substance use recovery & I am a lifetime consumer of mental health services.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I am new here, but I managed a Facebook page for our cohort alumni. We are currently in the 4th cohort under a Federal Grant to help those who are still suffering. I hope to share as MUCH INFORMATION as I can to set others Free.
Submitted:
First Name: Carolyn
Last Name: Holcroft
City/Town: Los Altos Hills
State/Province: California
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm our college professional development coordinator. My work at Foothill College is to bring professional learning to faculty with a special emphasis on equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
There are some wonderful resources in the Community Tool Box. I've already been able to leverage them as supplemental learning materials for our professional learning cohort around Culturally Repsonsive Pedagogy and know I'll be returning to the tool box to snag more resources for our other learning communities.
Submitted:
First Name: Alrena
Last Name: Lightbourn
City/Town: Jefferson City
State/Province: MO
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Former Public Guardian Representative in North Florida (2018 State 'Shining Satr' Awardee)
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I have not used it yet, but I expect it will be helpful for policy development.
Submitted:
First Name: Hilary
Last Name: Carpenter
City/Town: GILBERT
State/Province: Arizona
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I've been an RN for 12 years and I'm currently at NAU in the FNP program.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I'm only now learning about it.
Submitted:
First Name: Gin
Last Name: Schaffer
City/Town: Fredericksburg
State/Province: VA
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a doctoral student at Point Park University. Professionally, I work in integrative oncology. Personally, I run a diaper Bank program within our food Bank.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Just getting started, but I can already tell that the toolkit will help us make improvements to our diaper program.
Submitted:
First Name: AMANDA
Last Name: DE BRUIN
City/Town: CAPE TOWN
State/Province: CAPE TOWN
Country: SOUTH AFRICA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I AM A PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR, AND HAVE INTEREST IN MENTAL HEALTH
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
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Submitted:
First Name: Glenda
Last Name:
City/Town: Tiaong
State/Province: Quezon
Country: Philippines
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a health care professional and a mother to my only son who experiences chronic symptoms of schizophrenia. Because of this experience in witnessing my loved one who has altered functioning and difficulties in relating to the way of our world, I have been drawn to working with others who are having mental health challenges. In my work I have learned that mental health care is an essential priority and it needs to be at the individual and community level for it to be effective and truly make a difference. I am currently involved in community building through rotary services and I am applying my passion for mental wellness wholeheartedly.
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 in building a peer support group for mothers and other women in my community. The hope and the aim is to create a center where women and mothers can come to access mental health peer support and also other educational and personal development training to help empower them in creating the needed change to become their fullest potential.
Submitted:
First Name: Dakota
Last Name: Chisholm
City/Town: Chicago
State/Province: Illinois
Country: United States of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a coordinator in the Program in Public Health at NU focusing on areas of the curriculum that pertain to community engagement & advocacy
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
We have used the Community Tool Box in many different ways to support our work! Recently, we did a gaps analysis- taking stock of our current established community partners & doing research to see what health areas they focus in so that we can target new partnerships strategically to fill any gaps. We used the Community Tool Box definitions of sectors/etc. to categorize our partner orgs and the work they do. It served as a really helpful frame for our research/categorizations.
Submitted:
First Name: Yahya
Last Name: Bulle
City/Town: Nairobi
State/Province: Nairobi
Country: Kenya
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
My name is Yahya Bulle. I'm a Kenyan. I'm interested in learning my about the complexity of managing community changes.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Writing a grant proposal.
Submitted:
First Name: Alvaro
Last Name: Ramos
City/Town: Bogotá
State/Province: Cundinamarca
Country: Colombia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Por aparte les envaré una presentación sobre prevención de la drogadicción y de la violencia que promueve nuestros cursos entre los hispanos.latinos en EE.UU. Contiene un esbozo-esquema de nuestro modelo y método: "consciención-racionalidad-humanización" con fundamento y rigor en la "unidad dialéctica del conocimiento científico, resultado de nuestras investigaciones académicas y experiencias prácticas durante 50 años en Colombia, América Latina y en parte en EE.UU.

How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
La conocí por casualidad recién hoy y me sorprendió por sus temas y contenidos. Por mi experiencia durante 50 años la considero un buen esfuerzo y trabajo. La daré a conocer en varios contextos institucionales, académicos y comunitarios.
Submitted:
First Name: Rodney
Last Name:
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Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a counselor with the VA/Vet Center for the past 254years providing counseling and support to war-zone Veterans and their families in helping rebuild their lives that the war has destroyed. I am also the new Native American Veteran Outreach person for the VA medical center. I have recently been asked by VA Medical Center to help them improve their care for Native American Veterans and want to build a working relationship with the 12 Native American Nations in Wisconsin. One of my jobs is helping the staff at the VA medical center learn about Native American culture, traditions and history of the 12 Nations here in Wisconsin which will help to improve engaging Native American Veterans coming for care at the medical center.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I just discovered the Community Tool Box today!
Submitted:
First Name: Ashley
Last Name: Lavigne
City/Town: Helena
State/Province: MT
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hi, I am in my final semester of the BSN program at Montana State University Billings, and I live in Helena, MT.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I used the Community Tool Box to create a Community Health Assessment Project about Mental Health in Helena, MT. This Tool Box was extremely helpful in breaking down the project for me and giving me an understanding of how to do a windshield assessment. Thank you for letting us use this tool.
Submitted:
First Name: vivian
Last Name: allen
City/Town: Cottage Grove
State/Province: WI
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
hi my name is mrs vivian allen am former community activist of wisconsin I enjoy make difference and see changes happen that human fairness. doesnt like to see weakness of person be taken for granted or there kindness be abuse. am wife and mother and grandmother. have from chicago illinois. life was on westside . my mother was women that show love unconditionally. because old school upbring from way she was . it was inspired , I love it. it was joy to see how she touch people lives and receive respect. she also part of the community as volunteer and many commitee and neighborhood association. as my family live parents also great parents they made sure as child that we was told right way and spiritual encouragement was demanded from mother and grandmother.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
keep it real and tell truth about life raiseup a community family.
Submitted:
First Name: Muhammad Imtiaz ul
Last Name: Haq
City/Town: Lahore
State/Province: Punjab
Country: Pakistan
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
this is Muhammad Imtiaz ul Haq, I am a civil engineer and a quality manager, have worked on diverse construction projects with more than 18 years of experience & currently working as Dy Dir building control DHA Lahore Pakistan, and looking after building control policies & functions.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I am Dy Dir building control DHA Lahore Pakistan, we want to use community toolbox for improvement in our community, and further developed it to suit building control functions. I need to connect to discuss issues regarding building control & community development . regards