Hi Dr. Yapp,
Thank you for visiting the Community Tool Box (CTB) and Ask an Advisor. If I read your question correctly, you would like the CTB to serve in a counseling role for your virtual Facebook group. Well, let me say up front that we don't serve specific interest groups, but the good news is that we're always available if you need resources for community building or you have questions about how to conduct your work. Let me offer you a brief primer on the CTB to explain who we are and how we work. The following information can be found by clicking on the "About the Tool Box" button on our home page: "The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change. It offers thousands of pages of tips and tools for taking action in communities. Want to learn about community assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, advocacy, and other aspects of community practice? Then help yourself to over 300 educational modules and other free tools. Under continuous development since 1994, the Community Tool Box is widely used in teaching, training, and technical support. Currently available in English, Spanish, and Arabic and with millions of user sessions annually, it has reached those working in over 230 countries around the world. The vision behind the Community Tool Box is that people — locally and globally — are better prepared to work together to change conditions that affect their lives. Our mission is to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources. With the belief that people can change their communities for the better, and informed by disciplines including applied behavior analysis, public health, and community psychology, partners at the University of Kansas and collaborating organizations developed the Community Tool Box as a public service. Our fervent hope is that these tools can make it easier for people to take action to assure healthier and more just communities throughout the world. The Community Tool Box is a public service of the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas. The Work Group also provides a variety of services including technical assistance and training and participatory evaluation of community-based efforts." We are grateful to serve people working to improve conditions throughout the world. Our hope is that the Community Tool Box makes your good work a little easier. For more information, contact toolbox@ku.edu. This link will take you to our flier that provides a snapshot of what we do: http://ctb.ku.edu/sites/default/files/site_files/community_tool_box_flye....
With that Dr. Yapp, thank you for visiting the CTB and for your question. I hope that you will find the information we provided useful. Take care, be well, do good work.
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