Guestbook Entries

I am a policy analyst / program officer for the Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs.

I have been using the CTB mainly for staff development. My office just concluded the Title V federal block grant application and reporting and we are now in the planning phase. The curriculum on strategic planning (VMOSA) has been a gem in getting staff and stakeholders on board.

The Annette Strauss Institute is a non-profit organization on the University of Texas at Austin campus that encourages civic engagement and participation in Title I middle and high schools in Austin and Dallas areas by hosting the Speak Up! Speak Out! project, a civics fair centered around a grassroots problem solving curriculum culminating in a competition and presentation to judges.

The Community Toolbox is a new resource for me, but I am hoping to learn a lot from it. Most of my work at Annette Strauss centers around community outreach, fundraising, and volunteer coordination, and the Toolbox seems to have all kinds of resources to help me out in these areas. This looks to be an invaluable resource for all non-profit management professionals, whether inexperienced (like myself!) or professional. Thank you!

I am a counseling psychologist, recovering injection drug user, living with HIV and an assistant program manager charged with planning, developing and implementing a counseling program for patients, employees and the community.

I am using this tool to develop Psychological Counseling program for patients, employees and the community. I have the opportunity to connect with other and possibly seek partnership, collaborations or networking with individuals, interns, universities or organizations with similar interests.

I manage and teach at NLCC. The centre is focused on social reform and the pathway to this is literacy as there is a tremendous gap here in a failing national education system which continues to disadvantage the poor and marginalised. Our aim is to start pre-school and young learners centres in communities that have a need and demand for it - using the Jolly Phonics program as the tool for delivery.

We have just identified a community that will be our first branch and I found excellent materials on CBT to help with understanding how to set up a community literacy centre , project design information , project monitoring and evaluation etc. The language used and models presented are easy to follow. To summarize , the power of CBT for me is taking complexed issues and presenting it in clear and workable models for people who want to become social reformers to be efficient , knowledgeable and professional in this endeavour. Thank You.

I am a Certified Health Education Specialist and an adjunct professor in Gerontology

I have used the Community Tool Box as a reference for a few lectures - Roles & Skills for EBHP Instructors, and Problem-Solving, Safety Concerns & Burnout.

I am an entrepreneur leading a passionate team of developers to build a community development platform (part social networking site for community developers; part crowd-sourcing site for gathering the people with skills, knowledge, tools, or funding needed to implement ideas; and part project management / team collaboration software). We are definitely fans of CTB and the support/resources you provide to community organizers and would absolutely love to get your feedback on what we've built so far what it might be still lacking. We are currently still in the MVP/Alpha/Pre-Beta stages of our product development. Also, the platform itself has been built to be able to evolve and rapidly iterate as the needs of community developers and organizers change. We're currently on a 1-2 week development cycle, so you're feedback and suggestions will be implement quickly and are very appreciated. Looking forward to collaborating with you to find new and innovative ways to support community developers and organizers.

Our team greatly appreciates the knowledge, support, and articles (with cited sources) provided by Community Tool Box.

I am a 60 year old male returning to college to earn my bachelor degree in human services. I am currently employed part time by Northeast Kingdom Human Services in St Johnsbury, Vermont as a receptionist/office clerk,

I am just being introduced to the Community Tool Box.

I am a full-time research assistant/trainer and part time doctoral student at the KU School of Social Welfare. I have experience providing training to mental health centers and other organizations in positive behavior support and wraparound. My areas of interest include interagency collaboration, systems of care, and proactive/preventative approaches to addressing children's mental health.

Still exploring it but will let you know. My colleagues and I have done work in creating regional interagency teams in Kansas all connected through a community-focused, positive behavior support framework. I'd like to see how some of our presentation and facilitation material matches with what's in the toolbox.

I work in the school community teaching children, families and staff members healthy living through nutrition education and home cooking classes. I have access to families and due to the work, parents share their struggles. And although healthy eating is the answer to many of them, it is not the answer to all. I find that "compassion" is my greatest asset in listening and motivating them to change. It is not something I was aware of prior to the work but compassion has developed the more I address their concerns.

I am not familiar with it yet, this is my first time signing in.

I am a lawyer and I am interested in the development and empowerment of young people.

I am really excited about this platform because I am about to carry out a skills training for young girls and the information on community tool box has highly equipped me to be able to effectively pass out knowledge to these persons. Thank you.

I am a mother of 7, of Maori, NZ descent, living in a rural area at the very north of the country. Have been a community educator for many years and have recently commenced study in Social Sciences.

I am looking to develop education programmes in more remote areas of our region and looking at utilising the Community Toolbox to help to assess the needs of those communities.

i am a final year student (i.e. 4th year) of Mass Communication.

i am currently researching on how communication can be a tool to enhance various fields of endeavour. i will need help on the concept:communication tools or communication as a tool. this article on: Developing a Plan for Communication, has really been helpful.

Research scholar pursuing the Ph.D in Management topic " Stakeholder Management in IT"

References for doing the research work

Educator - BA Education, M.Ed Leadership,
currently in program PhD Ed Learning Instruction Innovation
Work focus:
Special education- Specific Learning Disabilities, Intellectually disability, Positive Behavior Support, Transition, integral technology, character education, social emotional learning,
Married, four adult children,

Today, I wanted to see what others are saying about Mission and Vision and alignment with Strategic Design

Hi! My name is Dianna Freeman. I am a mother of of 2, soon-to-be 3. I am currently a stay at home mom with plans to return to the workforce in 2016 as a business owner. I am invovled in the community as a non- religious church activist, part of the PTO in my childrens school, i volunteer for the school district, and I manage informal parent boards, in various neighborhoods and centers.

I am new to Community Tool Box, and since i've found it, I can't stay away! I use this sight for so many things! It helps me with my non-profit organization start-up, My daycare/school business plan, and my Community parenting group 'PARENTING ON PURPOSE' (P.O.P.)...even with raising my kids into young activist!
I share this information with friends, family, and community members! I think this FREE sight is a blessing to those who want to come together and change our world!

I am a Research Analyst with Advancement Project's Healthy City program. . I have been working as a researcher for about 10 years, both in an academic setting and currently as part of a non-profit organization that works locally in Los Angeles, California and state-wide, to provide capacity to partnering organizations who are interested in engaging their local community members to be a part of the research and advocacy on important issues their communities are experiencing, particularly as it relates to health equity.

Yes, our team has referenced the Community Tool Box when we developed a set of toolkits based on the community-based participatory action research framework and applied it to our workshops on community engaged mapping. This was and continues to be an instrumental website of resources. Thank you.

Executive Director of Community Action Agency

Using it as a reference tool

Am a jubilee Partner of PwC involved now in community work

in starting a backbone organisation

We are working with a number of foundations, government entities, and others to assist in creating strategic and tactical implementation plans for change.

It is great for reading about best practices and determining successful strategies.

I work as a Senior Community Liaison Officer (HIV and AIDS) and my role is to coordinate the activities of different partners in order to strengthen the multi-sectoral HIV and AIDS response in the region. I also work closely with communities and support group members through nutrition and livelihood projects. Through community led structures, we raise awareness on HIV epidemic drivers we monitor changes within communities. We believe in the principle of using local resources and finding local solutions to problems within the community. Of-course there are numerous social issues that are challenging such as alcohol misuse, teenage pregnancy, low levels of education, unemployment, gender based violence especially rape and cultural practices that make women and girls vulnerable to HIV infection, however we continue to raise awareness and promote multi-stakeholder response.

The CTB is my resource corner. When I need information for either trainings or community based campaigns, dialogues I get onto the internet and do some reading and literature review.