Guestbook Entries

Work & study in community development, community capacity building, social capital, and disability areas

I am interested in community development and community building projects and ideas. I work in the voluntary sector for the New Zealand Council of Social Services.

executive director of a community based minority non-profit for women in crisis. I became interested in becoming an advocate and forrunner when the youngest of my two daughters was diagnosised HIV+ in 1988. She died January 1993 and i am raising her 9 year old, sero-negative daughter. i hold support groups, individualized counseling, help the incarcerated female ttransition back into the community with some social support, also train women in "life skills" in the jail setting and drug rehabilitation environment, referr to drug rehabilitation, housing and jop placement. i am amember of valley brook christian communty church, sing on the choir and greet congregation twice a month. i am single and looking for my "soul mate"

I have just been hired by the Town of Jupiter Florida to develop a Neighborhood Enhancement Program

I am a youth director at a YMCA working with diverse population primarily in an inner city along with a suburban population at the YMCA building. I am always looking for materials about working together.

I met Steve recently. His thinking and life's work is clearly something I want to connect with. More importantly, I believe that this toolbox could be an integral component of what helps to build healthy communities - where everyone has access to and uses the available resources that build personal and family health. A healthy community is more importantly a place where people realize their full potential for optimal health status, and that does not differ by race, culture, ethnicity, or class (income, education, job, etc.) I hope that vision becomes reality and you are a part of making it so.

I work in the North of England as a community development worker. My backgroung is in health. I have just started a part time Masters in Applied Social Research. The Tool Box is a good source of information.

Centre Manager for the Wainuiomata Community Resource Centre. Researching information about Community needs Assesments, in particular School Holiday Programmes and Youth needs.

I am the Director of Nursing Systems, at North General Hospital in Harlem. I am looking into developing grant proposals to better involve this community hospital with its community.

Thanks for responding. I am glad to know it was only a temporary problem. Very useful site.

Hi again, I can't believe that I wrote to you on December 96 (and I gave almost no information on myself). I'm a physician (pediatrician by training) with many years of involvement in community health and empowerment in the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. Among other things, I am involved in cultural competence training and program implementation, and in domestic violence. Times flies! You improved with age, keep going. I'm currently a consultant for the March of dimes national hdqrtrs for their reaching out into the Hispanic/Latino communities. I plan to use a lot of the CTB approaches. My daughter joined the Peace Corps and she is a volunteer in Belize, Central America. Among all the important things she carried there, I downloaded and copied for her a selection of the most interesting chapters. Thanks.

Retired faculty of computer science at Ohio University. Interested in medical information for elders.

I am a public health educator at the Monongalia County Health Department in Morgantown, WV

I am a program officer with a healthcare foundation in New Jersey called the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey. We fund non-profits that improve the health of the Newark residents, further medical education, medical research and improve the health of the MetroWest Jewish community. See our website at fdcenter.org/grantmaker/hfnj

I am a health services research scientist conducting qualitative and quantitative research in the field of children's health/mental health. I am currently involved in evaluating a comunity academic alliance focused on parenting involving The Hospital for Sick Children and 22 community partners.

Community Technology Coordinator at the Westside Health Authority - Liason for Every Block a Village

I am a senior nursing student at UNCW. I have several other degrees (LPN, ART, BS in Biology with a minor in Psychology). I plan to continue working on education at completion of current studies and like to be informed.

I'm a 2nd year grad student studying social work. My concentration is communities and organizations. Resume available upon request.

Third semester masters student in Human Development at Washington State University.

I offer consulting services in health systems/network design, governance, management, and evaluation through my company, Health System Synergies. I have been involved in these areas by directing national programs administered in trade associations (AHA - Community Care Network Demonstration and APHA - Model Standards for Community Preventive Services); state health departments in planning and local health systems (Virginia and Idaho), and in hospital/health system planning.