Guestbook entries

Submitted:
First Name: Elda
Last Name: Chaparro
City/Town: Ogden
State/Province: UT
Country: Weber
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Social work student looking to find grants to work in the community to provide free weekly lessons for subjects related to teen pregnancy, family, couples.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
To assist me in the areas that I'm currently lacking and be able to better assist my community members.
Submitted:
First Name: Akua
Last Name: Johnson
City/Town: Washington
State/Province: DC
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I have really appreciated the information from this site for quite a while. I have not logged in lately, I like the change. I have a nonprofit organization and I work with other organizations. I do work to encourage African American parents to take a more active role in the education of their children. I am currently working to plan a strategy to address the gang or neighborhood rivalry in a Washington D.C. Children from one neighborhood fighting and even shooting children from other neighborhood to keep them out of the school that is in one group's neighborhood or that requires that children work through the other's neighborhood to get to school or even take the bus.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Not sure at this time.
Submitted:
First Name: Qiao
Last Name: Lei
City/Town: Beijing
State/Province:
Country: China
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Doctor. I am working in China.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
The CTB is very useful. I like it very much.
Submitted:
First Name: Teshome
Last Name: Regassa
City/Town: Addis Ababa
State/Province: Addis Ababan City Administration
Country: Ethiopia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a health education and promotion specialist, working for the Ministry of health of Ethiopia as Health Extension training team leader.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
They are extreemely relevant and important for the promotion of health at a community level. I would like to get all the chapters and publications consolidated for convenience in the use of these documents in the capacity building activities in my team.
Submitted:
First Name: Marilyn
Last Name: Johnson
City/Town: Los Angeles
State/Province: California
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Mike
Last Name: Albertson
City/Town: Williamsburg
State/Province: Kentucky
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a United Methodist pastor, and also a reclaiming Futures Fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation mission to address issues of juvenile drug and alcohol problems.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Not sure yet.
Submitted:
First Name: Kathy
Last Name: Sheehan
City/Town: Poughkeepsie
State/Province: NY
Country: US
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a Community Organization, Planning and Development student at Hunter College School of Social Work
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I'll be working with residents at a new low-income senior(55+) housing building to help them organize socialization programs - Just saw your site today for 1st time
Submitted:
First Name: Antonio Carlos
Last Name: Munhoz
City/Town: Santo Andre
State/Province: Sao Paulo
Country: Brasil
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Tenemos una organisacion de tercer setor e trabajamos con personas con discapacidad con la Reabilitacion Basada en la Comunidade. Queremos conocer la CBT.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Todavia no la utilisamos.
Submitted:
First Name: Joanne
Last Name: Richards
City/Town: Lismore
State/Province: NSW
Country: Australia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Research and Development Officer for Multitask Human Resource Foundation. Developing community inclusion, learning and development plus capacity building tool kit for our organisation to improve our service to clients from all marginalised areas of our community.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
As a resource for further information and development of our own tool box.
Submitted:
First Name: Graziano
Last Name: Maldonado
City/Town: San Juan
State/Province: Puerto Rico
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Principal at an international Hispanic-owned management consulting and integrated business outsourcing services for non-profit and for profit organizations.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Basically for research and to support educational and community training needs.
Submitted:
First Name: Maria
Last Name: Viegas
City/Town: San Diego
State/Province: CA
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Community Asthma Educator
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
information.....
Submitted:
First Name: James Lee
Last Name: Laughridge
City/Town: Birmingham
State/Province: Alabama
Country: U.S.A.
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an MPH/MPA student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am reviewing skills.
Submitted:
First Name: Dana
Last Name: Weathington
City/Town: Birmingham
State/Province: AL
Country: US
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Second-year master's student in Epidemiology/International and Global Health
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Learning to plan health promotion programs
Submitted:
First Name: Shveta
Last Name: Setia
City/Town: Birmingham
State/Province: Alabama
Country: US
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
MPH student
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
reviewing a skill
Submitted:
First Name: Abraham
Last Name: Salinas
City/Town: Tampa
State/Province: FL
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
International Student, MD,PhD Student in Public Health at the University of South Florida.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
It's a great tool. I am referring my international friends from Latin America and the Caribbean to the sections available in Spanish. Very Good. I would only add a section on interactive self-assessment, in which you can write the characteristics of your program, the inputs, outputs, and outcomes; and to be able to assess it. Like a diagnostic instrument.
Submitted:
First Name: Jan
Last Name: Hogle
City/Town: Madison
State/Province: WI
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Evaluation researcher at UW's Institute for Clinical & Translational Research; one of our key cores is the Community Academic Partnership Core.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Just found out about the site at the CDC/AEA Summer Evaluation Institute in Atlanta (2008).
Submitted:
First Name: Charlotte
Last Name: Mc Duffy
City/Town: North Brunswick
State/Province: NJ
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Small Home Business on Office Mgmt Consulting
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I wanted information on writing By-Laws
Submitted:
First Name: BEATRIZ
Last Name: MONTIEL
City/Town: MARACAIBO
State/Province: ZULIA
Country: VENEZUELA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
SOY LIC EN NUTRICIoN Y DIETETICA ACTUALMENTE DESEMPEnANDOME EN UNA INSTITUCIoN DE ENFERMEDADES CARDIOVASCULARES, Y PARTE DE MI TRABAJO ES PARTICIPAR EN TRABAJOS DE EXTENSIoN CON LA COMUNIDAD
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
POR LOS MOMENTOS LA UTILIZO COMO REFERENCIA PARA ACLARER CIERTAS INTERROGANTES QUE SE ME VAN PRESENTANDO DURANTE MI TRABAJO
Submitted:
First Name: Chris
Last Name: Jones
City/Town: Tulsa
State/Province: OK
Country: United States of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I live in the Kendall-Whittier neighborhood of Tulsa, Rev. Thad Holcombe's old stomping grounds. I attended the University of Tulsa and was involved in the Canterbury Center for United Ministry.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I come back to it year after year as a refresher course on the fundamentals of neighborhood advocacy/community activism.
Submitted:
First Name: Mark
Last Name: Simpson
City/Town: Santa Fe
State/Province: New Mexico
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Involved in mental health.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
It is extensive.
Submitted:
First Name: Phyllis M.
Last Name: Wallace, DrPH, CHES
City/Town: New Haven
State/Province: CT
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Senior Research Coordinator at Yale University, working on an NIH Cancer Information Services grant. I am also health faculty, Community Health Educator, student Peer Health Eudcator trainer, Certified Health Education Specialist, and health writer. I have worked on health prevention activities addressing Healthy People 2010 goals and community health inititatives, employing community models for over 20 years.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I share the information with colleagues and community members who are developing grassroots initiatives, as a guide, learning tool for evidence-based resources in program development, implementation, and evaluation. I also share this information with allied health and health education undergraduate students for future use.
Submitted:
First Name: Barbara
Last Name: White
City/Town: Washington
State/Province: DC
Country: US
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Professor of Social Work
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Developing a syllabus to get undergraduate deaf students at Gallaudet University involved in a collaborative partnership with the deaf community of Costa Rica, helping them to identify issues of concern, and develop a joint project.
Submitted:
First Name: Kate
Last Name: Coleman
City/Town: West Dunbartonshire
State/Province: Scotland
Country: Scotland
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a senior community development worker.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I have just found out about this site.
Submitted:
First Name: Patricia
Last Name: Connolly
City/Town: Ottawa
State/Province: Ontario
Country: Canada
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Director of an innercity social services centre for women and children who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Volunteer on a variety of committees and boards. Foster mom for Childrens Aid Society of Lanark, (have had about 20 children). Believe in "stand up for what we stand on". Love animals (have several refugee animals at home), children, gardening, and country living. Am currently 56 and just began a job-share easing into an age 60 retirement (I hope!) Love travelling, and have had the honor of visiting a few continents but truly hate flying.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I peruse the CTB Newsletter and pass on info to people that may be interested in certain articles. Keeps me informed on global issues that don't make the news.
Submitted:
First Name: Gloria
Last Name: Stokes
City/Town: Washington
State/Province: DC
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Small woman-owned company
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Will be using this with a community based organization
Submitted:
First Name: Budi
Last Name: Astawa
City/Town: Manado
State/Province: Sulawesi utara
Country: Indonesia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a community development trainer.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Resources important for me to support my job.
Submitted:
First Name: George
Last Name: Williams
City/Town: Chicago
State/Province: IL
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I work in the field of Social Justice and I always look for resources and think you have a "Great" web-site.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I'll be passing out handouts at a conference fom your tool box on Advocacy. It's Excellent. The next time I'm involved in a conference we are going to invite you to join us. Thank You.
Submitted:
First Name: Jennifer
Last Name: James
City/Town: Bathurst
State/Province: NSW
Country: Australia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Dental Therapist working in the area of oral health promotion for the disadvantaged in our society.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
As a guide to understanding the processes involved in oral health promotion in a very conservative area of health.
Submitted:
First Name: Shelia
Last Name: Ervin
City/Town: Posen
State/Province: IL
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a student in the Master's program for Social Work
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
the tool box has a lot of use information that i apply to school and church, I am involved in a lot of meetings. I would like to know do you have the information on hard copy. I do not reading on the computer it hurt my eyes, I have to look at a computer all day at work. I would love to purchase a hard copy.
Submitted:
First Name: David
Last Name: Wyatt
City/Town: Denver
State/Province: CO
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
VP of Perioperative Services, student in ABSC
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I see that this is used tremendously to develop programs throughout the world... An impressive tool.
Submitted:
First Name: Sarah
Last Name: Castleton Christensen
City/Town: SLC
State/Province: UT
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Student pursuing an advanced degree at the University of Utah and Health Education Specialist in Salt Lake Valley.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
To brainstorm and get ideas. This site has a lot of food for thought, but generic templates such as: Org. charts, Pert Chart and marketing templates would definitely increase it's usefulness to me. I realize other software offers these things, but they are not community health related and lack the specificity that I need.
Submitted:
First Name: Naomi
Last Name: Bradley
City/Town: Pasadena
State/Province: CA
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
editor of a magazine on faith-based community organizing; former executive director of two youth centers; currently forming an agency to assist in youth center start-ups; also work as a trainer providing advocacy training for teens in world vision usa's youth empowerment project program
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
there's a lot there to look through. hopefully to design the new agency above and pass info along to others to assist in their youth center start-ups. thank you!
Submitted:
First Name: Carol
Last Name: Mills
City/Town: Reserve
State/Province: Louisiana
Country: Saint John Baptist
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Guidance counselor/ Coordinator for Glory Land Learning center
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Trying to mobilize communities
Submitted:
First Name: Rosa Ines
Last Name: Guzman alvares
City/Town: Maracaibo
State/Province: Zulia
Country: Venezuela
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
me gusta los trabajos comunitarios soy sociologa,
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
soy nueva usuaria y no e podido abrir la secciones correspondientes a sus capitulos ,y me interesa leer toda la informacion.s.o.s
Submitted:
First Name: Cheryl
Last Name: Pollock
City/Town: Tampa
State/Province: FL
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hello. I have worked in the Tampa area as a community program specialist and organizer for more than 15 years. As an Executive Director fo the YMCA Community Initiatives Branch, I am working to create a strong, vibrant, and successful community initiatives model for one of Tampa's neediest neighborhoods.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I would like to order the kit Attend training and communicate with others using the kit
Submitted:
First Name: Sonia
Last Name: Strevy
City/Town: Marion
State/Province: IN
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an RN at Indiana Wesleyan University preparing for a community initiative in Indiana to tap into currently untapped talent in the community to encourage the underepresented, underutilized, unemployed and underemployed of our community to become nurses to help meet the community nursing shortage.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Networking, resources.
Submitted:
First Name: Yasmirys Thais
Last Name: Valdeblanquez Martinexcz
City/Town: Maracaibo
State/Province: Zulia
Country: Venezuela
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Asisti a un curso de la caja de herramientas comunitaria en Maracaibo, soy docente de enfermeria comunitaria en La Universidad del Zulia en Venezuela.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Estoy muy motivada a incorporar las herramientas de la caja para mis actividades como docente de enfermeria comunitaria, me parecen sencillas y los mas importante que pueden dejar resultado positivo y causar un gran impacto en las comunidades.
Submitted:
First Name: Phillip
Last Name: Williams
City/Town: Baltimore
State/Province: MD
Country: US
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
During the early 70's I was part of Project NOVA, a mental health consumer advocacy organization in Los Angeles. Now I am with Bmore Housing For all which is organizing homeless persons.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
To get resources to start a training program to train a group of leaders to work with and train other members.
Submitted:
First Name: Jeannette
Last Name: Pruett
City/Town: Bakersfield
State/Province: CA
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a new Systems Change advocate at a ilc. Your information has helped me learn so much. It would take decades to learn all this if i learned on my own. THANK YOU!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I will be a better advocate. THANK YOU!
Submitted:
First Name: Mohamed
Last Name: Bayumi
City/Town: Khartoum
State/Province: Khartoum
Country: Sudan
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I work in agriculture extension administration in federal ministry
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
It helps me in problem identification and solving
Submitted:
First Name: Cindy
Last Name: Kinne
City/Town: Corona
State/Province: CA
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an elementary school special education teacher and am attending Capella University towards my Ph.D.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
1st time - just checking it out
Submitted:
First Name: MOMOLU
Last Name: MASSAQUOI
City/Town: Monrovia
State/Province:
Country: Liberia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am graduate student at the Cuttington Graduate School.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
To write a paper on behavioral science.
Submitted:
First Name: Brenda
Last Name: Trigg
City/Town: Jackson
State/Province: MS
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a writer and creative director involved in efforts to improve healthcare coverage, public schools, and the environment.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Ideas, perspectives on processes, review of basics, understanding of things I have not been involved in but desire to be (organizing groups for action)
Submitted:
First Name: OLUTOSIN
Last Name: OLADOSU ADEBOWALE
City/Town: LAGOS
State/Province: LAGOS
Country: NIGERIA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I AM MARRIED WITH TWO CHILDREN, I HAVE MASTERS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS IN NIGERIA, I GRADUATED IN 2002, MY FIRST DEGREE, I STUDIED ENGLISH EDUCATION I GRADUATED IN ENGLISH EDUCATION IN 1998, I AM NOW A PROGRAMME OFFICER WITH AN NGO, THAT SPECIALISES IN AIDS AND CHILD ABUSE
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
TO HELP IN THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF MY AREA THROUGH THE NGO
Submitted:
First Name: stephen
Last Name: shubert
City/Town: San Diego
State/Province: CA
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the VP of Program Development for the Borrego Community Health Foundation and am very interested in methods for improving community health
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Just came upon the site - looking it over.
Submitted:
First Name: Samuel
Last Name: Theuri
City/Town: Nairobi
State/Province: Nairobi
Country: Kenya
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Community liaison Officer - Naivasha Project creating awareness on environmental conservation and health
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Help me as a guide to planning what information to look for and how to engage the community for participation
Submitted:
First Name: brent
Last Name: duplessis
City/Town: Aberdeen
State/Province: North Carolina
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
RN in process of getting MSN...Nurse 24 years...
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
more information on how different communitites are affecting change in their area of influnce
Submitted:
First Name: Carol
Last Name: Wilson-Smith
City/Town: Brooklyn
State/Province: New York
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Health Care provider based in a public hospital setting. Also involved in community activities like raising money for college scholarships for needy college students.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I'll be looking for suggestions for involving more people in donating assistance to others.
Submitted:
First Name: Lindsay
Last Name: Vernon
City/Town: Colorado Springs
State/Province: CO
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a population health nurse on an army base (it's the admin side of public health)
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
In my position I am charged with developing ways to make my entire population as healthy as possible. This is not easy when the organization tends to be resistant to innovation and change. Your toolbox will help me find ways to make the needed changes and programs happen.
Submitted:
First Name: Stephen
Last Name: Drost
City/Town: Lakeside
State/Province: NB
Country: Canada
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a social worker and have been doing community work for almost twenty years. The CTB is a very useful resource full of rich valuable lessons in best practices. Thanks
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I have been using it for specific issues realted to program development. The trouble shooting links are very helpful.