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I'm a P.A. in migrant/community health. I am intrested in finding out about community partnerships with Hispanics and substance abuse.

My computer system is Windows 98 Gateway. I am anexperienced RN in the third world. I have done multiple short term med. trips. I now am a nursing student at Bethel College in St. Paul MN getting another degree in nursing. I am very interested in short term missions and am doing a research paper on how nurses can effect short term missions especially in the area of discharge teaching in relationship to medicines given out at clinics. Do you have any specific research or other material about that? I find you web site to be an answer to prayer. I have been unable to find really good research articles on nurses and short term medical missions. God Bless Bert Stauff 3755 Lakeland Ave. N Robbinsdale MN 55422

Hello Steve: I am presently managing the Diabetes Today National Training Center project, based at R.O.W. Sciences in Rockville, MD. We are funded with a five year grant from the CDC Division of Diabetes Translation. We will be training state Diabetes Control Programs and their partners in community organization and diabetes control and prevention. We are wondering about how we can collaborate with the Community Tool Box and possibly incorporate it into the training we will be doing starting later this year. Please call or e-mail me with your suggestions. I am very curious to know what you have done that might be similar to our efforts and I am very willing to collaborate with you. My work phone is 301-294-5657. Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

I am a health futurist and medical economist, currently writing a book on telemedicine. I am planning to include a brief description of The Community Toolbox as a sidebar.

I work with Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools as a Subject Area Coordinator in the Department of Vocational, Adult and Community Education, serving as a central office support person for Family and Consumer Sciences, Health Science and Technology, and Tech Prep/Applied Academics. In the Family and Consumer Sciences area, I work with high school child care occupational programs which provide infant/toddler day care for teen parents and community parents who are enrolled in our educational programs in high school or adult education. Our day care centers are supported by Family Resource Centers and all four of these centers are in large part grant-funded. I am always looking for new "community solutions/tools" and your website interested me very much. I heard about your site through being the Tennessee contact person for the AAFCS Early Childhood Initiative. In preparation for our TAFCS Annual Conference next week, I am surfing all sites listed in the Monthly Memo for the Early Childhood Initiative. This may be more than you want to know about me and our interests; but thanks for being among those with children's interests at heart! Jane Gough, CFCS TAFCS VP Cooperative Relations and Chair, TN Early Childhood Initiative

I work in a hospital and am the Director of Community Health. We have some innovative programs going here in Denver and I'm interested in learning more about what others are doing.

MSW, KU, 1977; PhD, U of Tenn, 1995; Lt Col USAF; currently engaged in establishing healthy communities initiatives at 80 USAF bases around the globe; particularly interested in success stories (large and small), lessons learned, and outcome evaluation (for local community members use -- not forr researchers - - although there are opportunities there too). Great site; good rference materials.

I have an eclectic background in practice/policy/research in moving forward community prevention/devleopment agenda. I previously served as the director of prevention for a state health department and now am setting up a national program office for a new RWJ funded initiative that will support community coalitions addressing asthma.

I run a company called Vernacular Technology and Techniques and I am E.D. of a non-profit called The Institute for Vernacular Philosophy.

Trying to raise funds for a mentoring program for youth to prevent substance abuse and other poor choices youth might make.

I am a Registered Nurse (B.S.N.) and Coordinator for the Health Learning Resource Center at Westark College in Fort Smith, Arkansas. We are currently in the early planning stages for our new 6 million dollar Health Careers Center. Your web site is an invaluable resource. Thank goodness I have found you!

I am chairman of our local tenants association and I also chair the federation of tenants associations. Your web pages are an excellent source of information for community groups and well worth a visit. I am sure I will be a regular visitor. Good luck and best wishes.

Am a life long journalist and newspaper manager, currently working as the community development director at the Austin American Statesman in Austin. We are in the midst of refining what we do with our philanthropic efforts through the newspaper. I am looking for some training that will help me in facilitating community groups as a convenor, and in learning how to assess outcomes.

I am part of the Pew Charitable Trust Initiative known as the Pew Civic Entrepreneur Initiative involving 10 mid-sized cities in the US. I am with the Honolulu group; we are three classes - one per year for 3 years. Our principal sponsor was the Hawaii Community Foundation with the support of 16 other local non-profit organizations. I appreciate what you have done and look forward to visiting your site often. Presently, we are working on an Association of Community Association in keeping with a suggestion made by John McKnight in his book, the Careless Society.

Resource Coach for Interlochen Community Resource Center, a school-based family support network. My background is public health nursing and advocacy.

I am the Coordinator of Cape Ann Sustainable Communities serving Gloucester, Rockport, Essex and Manchester. We promote social, economic and environmental projects, and believe that actively supporting the development of a sustainable environment on Cape Ann is fundamental to achieving socal and economic justice for all. We are currently working on water resource protection with state and local officials to encourage them to adopt decision making processes that increase and benefit from citizen input. I am looking for a facilitator for three upcoming regional meetings with our partner organizations, businesses, local and state officals and concerned citizens. Can you help me? Thanks, Bernadine

I work as a community developer in a community health centre in Ottawa, Canada. We work with community groups on issues such as community safety, a local recreation facility, etc.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For the last twelve years I have been studying the issue of housing.&nbsp;&nbsp;What I have found out is that the whole issue of housing is private.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1873, a US court prohibited a state from carrying out any housing activities.&nbsp;&nbsp;After the stock market crash, because the nation was in economic distress, our government felt compelled to promote business, another thing our courts had prohibited a government from doing.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1936, to put people to work, they noticed a deteriorating housing stock and determined they would promote the housing industry.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was a catch, though.&nbsp;&nbsp;Because both the promotion of business and housing was off limit to them, they decided to channel the money through private organizations that had governmental powers<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Currently, we are studying the laws that will allow us to become independent from government control and allow us to acquire governmental powers to get things done.

I have just started working as Community Development Coordinator to find ways to suport existing collaborations and build on them, focusing on youth and prevention issues. It's been great and I'd love to hear how other partnerships are working.

In the research phase of creating a Community Incubation Centre. The intent is not to focus on a single industry or business sector, but to create or use models that assist with the renewal and reinvention of the community as a whole - build a structure or an enabling process that permits members of the community to use their collective community intelligence - any references you can send along on this topic of community incubation or similar models will be very helpful cheers

I am the director of Cape May County Healthy Community Coalition Blueprints 2000 project. We are a federally funded county wide prevention initiative. Our mission is to provide whatever resources are needed to help current prevention projects in our county do their work better.

I am a student in Dalhousie University working on a Resource guide about Teenage pregnancy and community development. I found your website very resourceful. Origional I am from Botswana in Southern Africa. I am in Canada for education