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First Name: tom
Last Name: kane
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co ordinator for a newstart project which is running in a area of priority treatment, help tenages empower themselevs and find employment
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This is my first visit, and I hope to pick up new methods and ideas
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First Name: Bruce
Last Name: Petering
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Community Developmenr Officer, Warracknabeal
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Research
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First Name: Destiny
Last Name: Myers
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I am the Manager of Lung Health for the State College Outreach Center of the American Lung Association of PA.
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I am chair of a 12 county community asthma coalition in Northcentral PA. We are currently looking for resources that can help increase our effectiveness.
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First Name: Dr. Lee
Last Name: Bell
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A community Activist/Organizer Radio Show Host Project Coodinator/ Universty of Michigan, School of Public Health
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I use it as a resource for bettering my work
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First Name: Kelly
Last Name: Tucker
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I am a graduate student at University of Michigan. My spring class is an independent study on grant writing. Review of your site is required.
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First Name: Jill
Last Name: Nerheny
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As the Community Co-ordinator for Birkenhead Northcote/North Shore City Council. I work with and for various groups to co-ordinate and improve their service delivery and outcomes/outputs utilising community development principals.
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This is the site for resources, thankyou, I refer many groups to this site.
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First Name: Max
Last Name: Llewelyn
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I am a community group facilitator and my primary function is capacity building and upskilling people and resources within community organisations
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
The Community Tool Box is a particularly useful tool in that I can prepare manuals in a simple language for use by community groups and show them the site so that they can use it as a resource should they require. I have found the Community Tool Box to be excellent and congratulations to those who have and are still putting it together.
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First Name: Peter
Last Name: Newport
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I'm a Unitarian Universalist minister currently completing a residency in Clinical Pastoral Education at the Roger Williams Medical Center here in Providence. I have worked with the Brockton Interfaith Community (BIC) and the Organization for Community Leadership Training in Boston.
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I'm not yet, but I am very interested in your approach. I am working on a proposal to help fund hospital-based support groups for family caregivers that seeks to bring that consitiuency together for 1)psychosocial/spiritual support 2)practical education, and 3)resourcing with other institutions/initiatives/services doing outreach to this community. My own observation has been that families with long-term critically ill members, either in home-care or nursing homes, are isolated from larger community and face sometimes sustained periods of dislocation and change with little, if any, support. In effect, looking at the difficult interface of wellness and end-of-life issues in family and community systems.
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First Name: Dr. David M.
Last Name: Kilpatrick
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I am the Executive Director of a broad-based community healthcare coalition that was founded in 1993 called Healthy malden, Inc. We have a web-site at www.healthymalden.org
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We just became acquainted with it and intend to use it a lot in the future.
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First Name: Richard
Last Name: Galope
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Currently in the process of start-up for community development consulting business. Former public agency management professional with diversified program development, strategic planning, community and government relations, and grant funding acquisition experience spanning eight years and across multiple functional areas in the public and private sectors. Specific expertise in business development, economic and workforce development, strategic partnership development, community organizing, legislative analysis and policy development, with accountability for continuous improvement, personnel supervision and multimillion-dollar budget administration.
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Conducting analysis of CTB tools and comparing with proposed business products, services and capabilities to ensure comprehensive inclusion of and compatibility with CTB into service delivery methodologies.
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First Name: Jim
Last Name: Barrett
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I am a life-long activist (can one say that at 30 years old?) who has been involved in political, social, and spiritual actions to raise awareness of the human condition in my various communities. Currently I work for a progressive non-profit.
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Using elements from previous agencies, tied together with the great layout and informative "dialogues" from Community Toolbox I have generated a "textbook" on how to be an activist that we call "Activism 101" to empower our members to act in their communities as well (the non-profit I work for works throughout Oregon).
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First Name: Pilgrim
Last Name: Lamb
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I am currently living in an Intentional Community called Twin Oaks. (www.twinoaks.org)
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I'm interested in starting an IC sometime in the future. I am living at TO in order to learn from their system. They've been a community for 35 years. I plan to utilize your website while I'm living here somewhat as a college course. We are currently developing a program under the heading "Community Organizer". I hope to be our first graduate. This is one of the most amazing and informative sites I've ever come across. Thank you!!! Pilgrim
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First Name: Anne-Marie
Last Name: Turnbull
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Psychology Master's graduate planning to work in community liaison and development
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Preparing presentation for local county council. CTB has been invaluable - I'll be referring to it again & recommeding it to colleagues. Thanks for providing this resource.
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First Name: Shay
Last Name: Chan Hodges
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Grant Writer for Community Clinic of Maui, Inc.
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Looking for information related to smoking cessation programs.
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First Name: Sharon
Last Name: Zeiler
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The Canadian Diabetes Association is an independently governed charitable organization whose mission is to promote the health of Canadians through diabetes research, education, service, and advocacy.
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We are looking at examples of educational tools, such as your tool box.
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First Name: Jennifer
Last Name: Hauserman
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I am the "web goddess" for our organization, Pine Gardens Community Organization. We've been working for about 5 years to bring our neighborhood together, and work toward the common goal of making it a great place to raise a family.
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Our Community Development representative from The Town of Jupiter emailed me a link to this site. I've looked over it, and it looks great. I can't wait to get the organization in on it.
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First Name: Michael
Last Name: Wilson
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I am a RN working for the past 13 years in the Burn ICU of the Massachusetts General Hispital. My passion is end-of-life-care and I have worked per deim as a Hospice visit nurse for the pasr three years. I am a board member of the Massachusetts Coaliation for Compassionate Care and also a founding member of a coummity coaliation called Pallaitive Care Coalition of the Merrimack Valley. My involvement in end-of-life has been a source of much growth for me personally, professionaly and spiritualy.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I have found the articles and how to guides wonderful in my attempt to pull a community coaliation together. I am a nurse, I have never done such work, but this website makes it possible for me to feel like it is possible to surmount the difficulties of placing three hospitals, two hospices, two family health centers and representives from several other agencies at the same table, rise above territorial and political issues and find a common path to our shared goal of improving the care we give to the dying. I thank you for all your efforts.
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First Name: judith ( Dr.)
Last Name: Palmer Castor
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Mental Health Researcher/consultant Areas of espertise include violence prevention, at-risk youth and femily support programs ( program development, technical assistance and evaluation)
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I am searching for a tool that that assesses or evaluates community collaborations; i.e. degree of collaboration such information sharing, relationship development, leadership, decision making, etc. Want a tool that can be administered to collaboration partners or members on some interval basis.
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First Name: Tim
Last Name: Livermore
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I am Asst Health Officer for San Joaquin Co Public Health Svcs. We are part of PPH.
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Took your toolbox breakout session today. Enjoyed it. I will return to it sometime soon, and look around. Thanks. -TL.
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First Name: alfred
Last Name: garcia
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will be using for planning