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First Name: Barbara
Last Name: Ruhs, MS, RD
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Registered Dietitian who coordinates nutrition education activities for the MA Department of Education. This is a great resource!
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First Name: Jim
Last Name: Wann
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Interested in improving communities
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First Name: maritza
Last Name: castillo
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I am working in a "barrio". Could you help me in relation to popular methodology?
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First Name: maritza
Last Name: castillo
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I am working in a "barrio". I down load many of your pages. I will read them. I am thankfull. Could you help me in relation to popular methodology?
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First Name: Steven
Last Name: Kuntz
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Manager of Planning & Quality Assurance Macomb County Health Department
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First Name: nancy
Last Name: gerrity
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I am a public health nurse consultant working with a community health initiative in North Central Phila. I am in the process of setting up a nursing center delivering both public health services and primary care. I have worked with this particular community for about a year and have struggled to increase the partners, both community residents and other community based organizations. We are about to embark on a Healthy Start infant mortality reduction grant which should prove to be another opportunity to bring services in and enhance the assessts of this community.
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First Name: Alice
Last Name: Johnson
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Great web site! I am interested in developing links here for members of ACOSA (Association for Community Organization and Social Administration). We have a new web page: http://www.acosa.org I am the Treasurer and work in program development areas related to membership, webpage development, and other tasks in organizational development.
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First Name: Anne
Last Name: Drake
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Occupational Therapist with interest in health promotion and wellness issues. Currently doing a community development unit for a graduate diploma in health promotion. Site is superb. So much practical, well organised information which will be really helpful.
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First Name: Teshome / Mr/
Last Name: Regassa
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I am 43, student doning my MSc in Health education/health promotion in the University of Southampton.I have just started writing Dissertation on the Healthy Cities / Settings / Approach from the perspective of developing countries. I am an Ethiopian, will be back, when I finish my course, to my job in the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa.
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First Name: nannette
Last Name: banks
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I am a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I'm a poet. I am in desperate need of communty writing projects that focus on community development!
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First Name: Susan
Last Name: Brown
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I'm looking for a model for a code of conduct for a non-profit community group, a Toastmasters club. We need guidelines for conduct for one person, along with consequences for violations. I haven't found anything on this in the Tool Box. Is there something available here? Thanks.
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First Name: mary
Last Name: Haynes
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We are just beginning a planning/zoning process in this small town. My daughter, a planner in California, told me about you.
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First Name: Elizabeth
Last Name: Flackl
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I HAVE READ MANY OF THE CHAPTERS FROM THE COMMUNITY TOOL BOX. I DEFINITELY NEEDED A DIVERSION FOR A PERIOD AND ENJOYED LEARNING NEW THINGS AS WELL AS HAVING SOME OF MY BELIEFS RE-INFORCED BY OTHER MORE INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE, E.G. THE AUTHORS.
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First Name: Kathy
Last Name: Hausman
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faculty member interested in furthering public policy relted to child health care, child welfare, preventing abuse and improving the life of children who are living in poverty with birth parents who provide no guidance or love for the child.
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First Name: Brian
Last Name: Jackson
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I coordinate the community health assessment and improvement procees for a local health dept. in Michigan.
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First Name: Eleni
Last Name: Digenis-Bury
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I am an Epidemiologist with the City of Fort Worth Public Health Department. The information on objectives and evaluation is very useful! It has aided me in explaining these topics to colleagues.
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Last Name: Dunn
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Executive Director of the Illinois Coalition for Community Services, a nonprofit organization of community organizers.
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First Name: Beth
Last Name: Abel
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Our agency, the Tangipahoa Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council, is a community-based non-profit agency seeking information on effective coalition building.
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First Name: Eynes
Last Name: Mendez
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This is something that everyone should know.<p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For the last 12 years I have been studying the housing issue. I have found out that our nation's justice department held housing as a private, not a public, venture.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Housing in the City of New Orleans isn't. Our city government has taken housing as a public venture and has made it impossible for residents of the city to discuss housing with the Mayor.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The custom of law has people from inside distinct groups sitting in the positions of authority. We no longer have British people coming over here to sit in our governmental offices.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It was decided that this was not to our benefit. That is why we no longer have them here.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We also have people from inside the boundaries of our state and local units of governments (in the state of LA we have parishes, cities, districts and special districts) in the positions of government. No one from outside of those boundaries sits in those positions.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the way it was supposed to be with actions our national government wanted us to take, the elimination of slum, the construction of dwellings, and the stimulation of business. And the people living inside the baoundaries they outlined were person of low and moderate income.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Community development in the past resulted with groups of people eventually emerging as independent agencies of government. Community development results with clearly defined groups of people organized as independent social, economic, and political bodies.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The people outlined by federal law are not. The do not enjoy the protection of law that others enjoy.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Are there others out there who know this and are doing something along this way?
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First Name: Lynley
Last Name: Budinas
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I am attending medical school this fall and hoping to pursue an MPH. I have used this site on several occasions with my job in an inner city daycare.