Guestbook Entries

I got my MPH degree from KUMC on May, 1996. Right now I am the Epidemiologist for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Program. I have found the community tool box very informative and friendly. Congratulations!!

I am a student in a community psychology class and I would like to learn how to start an AIDS/HIV prevention program in my hometown high school.

Vice President for Human Resources at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend KS. Six months ago I moved to Great Bend from the Chicago area. I have a keen interest in collaborating with school districts and KHA to increase the ranks of health professionals at all levels in the state of Kansas.

I work with a school-based community nursing center. I am interested in linking Health Promotion and Community Organizing

Grad student...work w/community-based nonprofit endeavoring to develop a permanent housing site for migrant farmworkers.

Manager for ICAN - International Cancer Association Network Manager for Starflower Pub. P/L. - Pub Health Books etc. ICAN - 02-6-9251 4140 Fax - 02-6-9247 5453 , Sydney, Australia

I am not sure if I am contacting the right place, but it is worth a shot. I am looking to start a petition and wondering how to do it. Do you have any pointers or suggestions? Thanks.

I am not a professional activist, I do not know where to channel my e-mails and was hopinng your organization and your contacts may help. I am specifically seeking those who may have contacts in southern california, particularly L.A county... It is with the utmost urgency that I write this letter, in hope that I can help prevent an ecological disaster in a city that has precious little nature left as it is. Let me briefly explain the situation and hope that this plea can be acted upon before irreversible damage is done to perhaps the most historic wetland in all of Los Angeles - the La Brea Tar Pits at the Page Museum. Please listen to my observation of the situation as time is of the utmost importance since more destruction is scheduled for next week! My name is John Greenlee. I am the owner and operator of the Greenlee Nursery, a supplier of native grasses and author of "The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses", an authority on native grasses, sedges, and rushes. Because of my experience I was asked by the contractor, Valley Crest, to come to the site to save some native sedges, propagate and grow them so they might be replanted after landscape renovations to the museum grounds have been completed. Today, to my horror, as I went to the site to pick up these native sedges, I discovered that the original native reeds and rushes surrounding the historic Tar Pit ponds have been bulldozed out! Physically, mechanically removed. I was shocked and stunned by what I feel to be a gross mistake, one that may not be salvageable unless action is taken immediately to stop this destruction. Observing what I believe to be the systematic dismantling of one of the oldest and perhaps most historic wetlands in all of Los Angeles, I asked the contractors what was the reason for this action. I was told by the landscape foreman that the next step was going to be the sterilization of the pond by chemical treatment to remove all vestiges of the native plant materials and the spraying is to take place sometime next week! I believe we must act now to stop the spraying. There are some native rushes still left but these are slated to be killed by chemical application. Why is this happening? The architect's office, Fong and Associates, and the landscape contractors told me the county mosquito abatement district wants them removed to fight mosquitoes! This explanation is absurd and goes against all that I know about mosquito abatement. The presence of native rushes does not cause mosquito infestations. This is patently false. The prime breeding ground for mosquitoes is standing water in old tires, buckets, and anywhere water is left to collect in total absence of any vegetation. It is my understanding, and I have consulted with Neil Diboll, world renowned restoration ecologist, who supports my position that emergent aquatics, the term for the native rushes and tules, are essential habitat for insect predators. Predators, such as the dragon fly, are voracious consumers of mosquitoes. The city - in short - is being sold a bill of goods. Once again, someone mistakenly believes that taxpayer subsidized chemical applications is a better solution than a natural, balanced ecosystem. This belief is not only poorly conceived and without scientific substantiation, but there is far more to lose. What are we about to lose? Genetic material that has been on this very same site, since perhaps the days that those now extinct animals once trampled upon it to search for water - the native sedges and rushes. Once chemical sterilization is complete, this historic vegetation will cease to exist! Perhaps 45,000 years of ecology will cease to exist! Remnants of the rushes and sedges are still on the site. But, for how long? Dragon flys perch and molt on rushes and sedges. How does the county propose to replace the lost habitat? This grave mistake must be halted before any further damage occurs. We must act now, or we will lose this bit of remnant nature forever! If there is anything I can do please call me anytime day or night. office: (909) 629-9045 (leave a message and I will check in) pager: (888) 945-2362

I work with Community Support Programs, Inc. We are a private non-profit agency in Shreveport, La. The address is 610 Marshall, Suite 405, Shreveport, LA 71101.

I am the State-wide Community Organizer for OutFront Minnesota, the largest Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender organization in Minnesota

I am Coordinator of the Howard County Office of Substance Abuse Impact Services. In June 1998, members of our community were trained in Asset-Based Community Development. We are just beginning this process.

I am currently developing an evaluation "tool kit" for Community Health Worker/Promotor de Salud programs.

I work for a CDC in Kansas City, MO--Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance. I love learning more about community development and how to most effectively help my constituents--neighborhood residents.

I work for the City Of Detroit's Empowerment Zone a Recreation project called The School As The Heart Of The Community.

Teach undergraduate health education courses at North Carolina Central University, Durham NC; chair the SOPHE-AAHE Baccalaureate Program Approval Program (SABPAC) a profession-endorsed quality assurance program for preparation of baccalaureate health educators

I am the contact person for the Community Wellness Coalition of Southernmost York County, Maine. The CWC, with its network of community leaders, is dedicated to supporting and developing the well-being of the people in our five town region, using a 9-dimensional wellness model: physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, occupational, material/financial, and environmental wellness. We will soon open a small "community resources information center" in York, Maine.

I`m half way through my 1st. year in a degree course for B.Soc. Sc. with University College Cork. (UCC) Ireland. Finding it tough but rewarding. Getting our Project/Research assignment next week and panicking. Tool Box is great. Thanks.

I am the Project Coordinator for the Healthy Communities Coalition, Micmacs on the Move, through the Aroostook Band of Micmacs. We are located in Presque Isle, Maine, in Aroostook County.

Interested in services for older adults who are isolated. Attempting to start a phone-link group for home-bound seniors.

Teach undergraduate and graduate health education at the University of Texas at Austin and am involved in community-based research.