Guestbook Entries

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First Name: Jairo
Last Name: Hernandez
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First Name: Sue
Last Name: Tungate
City/Town: Livermore
State/Province: Colorado
Country: U.S.
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I work with inter- and intra-agency teams of human services providers to coordinate and integrate services to vulnerable families and individuals. I provide instruction to social work students at a state university.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
This is a fantastic resource, and very user-friendly. The framework for program evaluation is a nice succinct overview for non-evaluation researchers, but provides a great introduction to the process. I will use this to introduce an undergraduate class in social work practice with organizations and communities to basic program evaluation concepts. They're useful tools for assisting community-based teams and workgroups with assessment and planning - all very accessible. Thank you!
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First Name: Tamiko
Last Name: Brownfield
City/Town: Chicago
State/Province: IL
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Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a human rights activist, a humanitarian, and a community developer. My biggest project now is the Woodlawn community. It was once a beautiful thriving community and now it has been ravaged by crime and neglect, in danger of gentrification. There is no strong leadership to pull everything together and get the necessary changes made. My goal is to build an organization that will do what the community leaders of that community have failed to do.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I just visited today and from what I have seen it will make a tremendous difference in getting me started.
Submitted:
First Name: Brenda
Last Name: Roland
City/Town: Gainesville
State/Province: Texas
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I started my new role as the Family Liaison at Gainesville State School, a division of the Texas Youth Commission on Sept. 15, 2008. I graduated from Kennesaw State University in Georgia with a Bachelor's degree in psychology/sociology and continued my education and earned my first Master's Degree in Counseling from Midwestern State University and recently became a licensed Professional Counselor. My second Master's Degree is in Family Studies from Texas Woman's University. I began with the Texas Youth Commission in 2006 as a counselor intern, Case Manager III. My career outside of TYC includes being a Program Therapist for youth Services, family case manager for Cal Farley's Boys Ranch, and a Field Executive for the North Central Texas Girl's Scout Council. I have experience working with adolescents, adults, and families on a wide variety of issues.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
To increase family involvement in the rehabilitation of youth by developing, organizing, implementing, and overseeing family involvement activities at the TYC facilities.
Submitted:
First Name: Philippe
Last Name: Piette
City/Town: Peterborough
State/Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a social services student at the Fleming College in Peterborough. I've researched this site.
Submitted:
First Name: Salah
Last Name: Albedry
City/Town: Hilla
State/Province: Babylon
Country: Iraq
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm an executive director in the Iraqi Civic Action Network(ICAN). ICAn is an Iraqi NGO established in 2006. ICAN seeks to build an independent and active civil society that contributes to a democratic political process and transition in Iraq. ICAN's mission is to develop Iraq's civil society groups through capacity building trainings including organizational development and advocacy campaigns, and provide a forum for information exchange on best practices that lead to their growth and development. ICAN conducted several programs aimed to develop and building capacity of many Iraqi NGOs.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
In fact we got benefit a lot from the CTB materials. It helps to develop our skills and increase our knowledge. We hope that CTB adds Arabic language to enable many civil society activists who are indeed to such topics.
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First Name: Elda
Last Name: Chaparro
City/Town: Ogden
State/Province: UT
Country: Weber
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Social work student looking to find grants to work in the community to provide free weekly lessons for subjects related to teen pregnancy, family, couples.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
To assist me in the areas that I'm currently lacking and be able to better assist my community members.
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First Name: Akua
Last Name: Johnson
City/Town: Washington
State/Province: DC
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I have really appreciated the information from this site for quite a while. I have not logged in lately, I like the change. I have a nonprofit organization and I work with other organizations. I do work to encourage African American parents to take a more active role in the education of their children. I am currently working to plan a strategy to address the gang or neighborhood rivalry in a Washington D.C. Children from one neighborhood fighting and even shooting children from other neighborhood to keep them out of the school that is in one group's neighborhood or that requires that children work through the other's neighborhood to get to school or even take the bus.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Not sure at this time.
Submitted:
First Name: Qiao
Last Name: Lei
City/Town: Beijing
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Country: China
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Doctor. I am working in China.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
The CTB is very useful. I like it very much.
Submitted:
First Name: Teshome
Last Name: Regassa
City/Town: Addis Ababa
State/Province: Addis Ababan City Administration
Country: Ethiopia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a health education and promotion specialist, working for the Ministry of health of Ethiopia as Health Extension training team leader.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
They are extreemely relevant and important for the promotion of health at a community level. I would like to get all the chapters and publications consolidated for convenience in the use of these documents in the capacity building activities in my team.
Submitted:
First Name: Marilyn
Last Name: Johnson
City/Town: Los Angeles
State/Province: California
Country: USA
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First Name: Mike
Last Name: Albertson
City/Town: Williamsburg
State/Province: Kentucky
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a United Methodist pastor, and also a reclaiming Futures Fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation mission to address issues of juvenile drug and alcohol problems.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Not sure yet.
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First Name: Kathy
Last Name: Sheehan
City/Town: Poughkeepsie
State/Province: NY
Country: US
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a Community Organization, Planning and Development student at Hunter College School of Social Work
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I'll be working with residents at a new low-income senior(55+) housing building to help them organize socialization programs - Just saw your site today for 1st time
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First Name: Antonio Carlos
Last Name: Munhoz
City/Town: Santo Andre
State/Province: Sao Paulo
Country: Brasil
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Tenemos una organisacion de tercer setor e trabajamos con personas con discapacidad con la Reabilitacion Basada en la Comunidade. Queremos conocer la CBT.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Todavia no la utilisamos.
Submitted:
First Name: Joanne
Last Name: Richards
City/Town: Lismore
State/Province: NSW
Country: Australia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Research and Development Officer for Multitask Human Resource Foundation. Developing community inclusion, learning and development plus capacity building tool kit for our organisation to improve our service to clients from all marginalised areas of our community.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
As a resource for further information and development of our own tool box.
Submitted:
First Name: Graziano
Last Name: Maldonado
City/Town: San Juan
State/Province: Puerto Rico
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Principal at an international Hispanic-owned management consulting and integrated business outsourcing services for non-profit and for profit organizations.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Basically for research and to support educational and community training needs.
Submitted:
First Name: Maria
Last Name: Viegas
City/Town: San Diego
State/Province: CA
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Community Asthma Educator
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
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Submitted:
First Name: James Lee
Last Name: Laughridge
City/Town: Birmingham
State/Province: Alabama
Country: U.S.A.
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an MPH/MPA student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I am reviewing skills.
Submitted:
First Name: Dana
Last Name: Weathington
City/Town: Birmingham
State/Province: AL
Country: US
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Second-year master's student in Epidemiology/International and Global Health
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Learning to plan health promotion programs
Submitted:
First Name: Shveta
Last Name: Setia
City/Town: Birmingham
State/Province: Alabama
Country: US
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
MPH student
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
reviewing a skill