Guestbook entries

Submitted:
First Name: Brittan
Last Name: Williams
City/Town: Wentworth
State/Province: North Carolina
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a recent MPH graduate from UNC-Greensboro. I am currently employed as the Health Education Program Manager at the Rockingham County Department of Public Health.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I will use the community tool box with our Healthy Carolinians Partnership.
Submitted:
First Name: Elaine
Last Name: Eaves
City/Town: Blackpool
State/Province: Lancashire
Country: Great Britain (UK)
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Temporary Consultant working with Blackpool Community Development Unit. To idenify funding and development opportunities within regeneration.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Brent
Last Name: Ewig
City/Town: Washignton
State/Province: District of Columbia
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
As a resource in planning a workshop on community needs and resource assessment for an upcoming meeting.
Submitted:
First Name: Beverly
Last Name: Keener
City/Town: Fairmont
State/Province: West Virginia
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
WV DHHR WV RTPCC Network Regional Tobacco Prevention Coordinator
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Building & Maintaining community coalitions for policy change am referencing toolkits/outlines/tips
Submitted:
First Name: Ken
Last Name: Kavanagh
City/Town: Bell Island
State/Province: NL
Country: Canada
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Retired teacher who has been heavily involved in community economic development. Now Project Coordinator with a Coalition for Educational Opportunities, a coalition trying to address the dropout problem with the establishment of an alternative school
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am using your wonderfuyl resource on coalition building and maintenance.
Submitted:
First Name: Leslie
Last Name: Brown - Hacker
City/Town: Shawnee
State/Province: Oklahoma
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Family Services Worker at a Tribal Head Start, volunteer Board Member for a Faith-Based 12 Step Recovery Program, and actively participate in a Task Force to end child abuse.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am learning more ways to effectively reach the people needed to create more nurturing community entities (nurturing of independence and respect) that foster upward-bound change in people/families.
Submitted:
First Name: Arie
Last Name: Mor
City/Town: Mobi
State/Province: Alabama
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Development Officer
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
All of the Resources.. we are a new venture and we are in need of every resource that is available. This site is a God-send! In Christ
Submitted:
First Name: Anne
Last Name: Crotty
City/Town: Cedar Falls
State/Province: Iowa
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I recently graduated with a BA in Health Promotion, so am now looking a job.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I use it to learn new skills necessary in the public health field. It's great that all of these tools are available for free, too!
Submitted:
First Name: patrick
Last Name: okoth
City/Town: Nairobi
State/Province:
Country: Kenya
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Doctor/surgeon/lecturer
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
to look for your community health and development curriculum
Submitted:
First Name: Donna
Last Name: Bain
City/Town: Alexandria
State/Province: Virginia
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a family and community health nurse practitioner, practicing in a free preschool network for working families with low incomes. We provide comprehensive services for our client families.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I'm not using it yet. This is my first time visiting the website. Thanks!
Submitted:
First Name: Elyzabeth
Last Name: Maxey
City/Town: Morgantown
State/Province: West Virginia
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I looked up examples of writing PSAs. Your tips were very helpful!
Submitted:
First Name: Benjamin
Last Name: Sher
City/Town: New York
State/Province: New York
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Director of Training for a large not-for-profit.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Using it as a resource for leaders.
Submitted:
First Name: cheryl
Last Name: Drayton
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country: Australia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Aboriginal person working in the Government and working with local aboriginal communities
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
The resource and information and material help me and give directions to where I am working with community
Submitted:
First Name: Janine
Last Name: Souffront-Palomino
City/Town: Los Angeles
State/Province: California
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Promotores de Salud de la Tercera Edad Project Director
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
For ideas when we find challenges in certain areas.
Submitted:
First Name: Miki
Last Name: Karson
City/Town: Kenosha
State/Province: Wisconsin
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the Director of a small non-profit organization providing peer support,self-directed recovery, advocacy and empowerment opportuniites to adults with mental illness. I have an M.A. in org. development.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
We are currently reviewing ways to engage community through education about mental health, recovery and anti-stigma. The modules are going to be an important part of our strategy and structure planning.
Submitted:
First Name: Padmanabhan
Last Name: Badrinath
City/Town: Bury St Edmunds
State/Province: UK
Country: Great Britain (UK)
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am Public Health Consultant working in the English NHS
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I found your workshop resource very useful and will be using the approach in a workshop we are running in our organisation.
Submitted:
First Name: Eva
Last Name: Yakutis-Mcniel
City/Town: Riverside
State/Province: California
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Office of Neighborhoods Manager for the City
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am on my way to give a presentation on Asset Based Community Development and Community Organizing to the Crime Free Multi Housing International conference and am taking the good news about the CTB with me!
Submitted:
First Name: Tony B.
Last Name: Nelson
City/Town: Middletown
State/Province: Connecticut
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Training & Development Consultant (Ex-Offender's and K-12)
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
By utilizing resources in order to better enhance curriculums and service delivery to client base -(RESEARCH)
Submitted:
First Name: Sondra
Last Name: Myers
City/Town: Crowley
State/Province: Louisiana
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Educator of 33years - teacher, principal, currently 10 years as Director of Head S Start within a parish school system, mom of 7, grandmom of 8
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Head Start management involved a cycle of planning and assessment. With the Head Start Act needing reauthorization every 5 years, there are constant changes in program regs and services. TOOLBOX IS WONDERFUL!!!!!!!
Submitted:
First Name: Michael
Last Name: Contreras
City/Town: Mamburao
State/Province: Occidental Mindoro
Country: Philippines
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a Community Development Worker.....
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Community Tool Box helps me a lot specially on organizational and management aspect....
Submitted:
First Name: Key
Last Name: Frost
City/Town: Invercargill
State/Province:
Country: New Zealand
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hard Working student
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Creating a resource folder for Community Change
Submitted:
First Name: Anthony
Last Name: Selwyn
City/Town: Portland
State/Province: Oregon
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am NATIVE AMERICAN (SIOUX)I have been an employee of the college for the last twenty years.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I share the information with fellow employees and with the community I live in. IT IS AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE!
Submitted:
First Name: Lorraine
Last Name: Schoenbeck
City/Town: Columbia
State/Province: South Carolina
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Graduate student at Capella University completing graduate project on health care literacy.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Information and reference for graduate project.
Submitted:
First Name: Martin
Last Name: Risteen
City/Town: Norton
State/Province: Massachusetts
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Have used this in the past will be working with transgender/seworkers who would like to develop their own program for their community with regards to HIV/AIDS, staying healthy and empowerment
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Annette
Last Name: Roberts
City/Town: Cambridge
State/Province: Massachusetts
Country: United States Of America
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: Jairo
Last Name: Viafara
City/Town: Winnipeg, Canada
State/Province: Manitoba
Country: Canada
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Urban Planner and graduated sociologist. Continuing education courses in Business Administration, Community Development, and Small Business Management. Trained in Neighborhood Revitalization, and Transportation Planning. Experienced formulating goals, collecting, analyzing data, designing, planning, and implementing complete neighborhood safety, housing condition analysis, and metropolitan transportation planning studies. Experienced designing and evaluating demographic and environmental impact analyses. Researched, compiled, and analyzed demographic, land use, transportation, and statistical data utilized in community planning to support initiatives and functions. Designed public involvement, and community outreach programs. Project management experience overseeing consultant work, preparing contract, scope of services, project schedules, producing baseline, and final reports. Offering public presentation, group facilitation techniques, advanced survey methodology and statistical analysis skills. Member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am preparing to work with a community group assisting them in the implementation of a community safety program. Three years ago, I implemented two community safety programs. From the begining to the end, every time I advanced to a new phase in the program, I assured to read your pages for guidance, and reference. Your tools were extremely useful. Thank you.
Submitted:
First Name: Jutamas
Last Name: Chotibang
City/Town: Houston
State/Province: Texas
Country:
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: Mark
Last Name: Brunswick
City/Town: Wilmington
State/Province: Delaware
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a writer and organizer presently living in Wilmington, Delaware. I work on Community/Labor coalitions that stretch across class and racial lines. I have a leadership role in the Delaware A. Philip Randolph Institute where we have a focus on bringing single payer health care to Delaware. We are dedicated to involving communities of color in key leadership on this issue.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
This is an expansive resource. I focus on your community organizing tools.
Submitted:
First Name: Alberta (Betty)
Last Name: Batenburg
City/Town: Torrance
State/Province: Los Angeles
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Have worked in the substance abuse prevention/education and treatment field for over 30 years including tobacco
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
grant writing
Submitted:
First Name: laura
Last Name: hall
City/Town: aiken
State/Province: South Carolina
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
graduate school student in Individual and Family Development South Carolina State University and an educator in character skills and family life education
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
To help research and identify problem and write a action plan to address it
Submitted:
First Name: Judy
Last Name: Dudley
City/Town: Riverside
State/Province: California
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Nursing student, currently completing a class in community health nursing.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
for a class project.
Submitted:
First Name: Molly
Last Name: Kennedy
City/Town: San Mateo
State/Province: California
Country: United States Of America
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: Brooke
Last Name: Howard
City/Town: Little Rock
State/Province: Arkansas
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a public health educator for the Arkansas Department of Health
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I use this toolbox to create and maintain healthy coalitions
Submitted:
First Name: Evelyn
Last Name: Baudoin-Glasper
City/Town: New Orleans
State/Province: USA
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
President/Founder of The Sunshine Career Counseling and Referral Services,Inc. a Non-Profit Organization with a mission to make changes amont the needy and amont youth in our communities.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
The Community Tool Box is being used to help me prepare for meetings and to become more effective in gathering information from the communities to bring about changes and help families to become self-sufficient.
Submitted:
First Name: Ima
Last Name: Avila
City/Town: Panama
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Trabajo en una ONG que promueve el desarrollo comunitario local a traves de la participacion y organizacion comunitaria, la capacitacion y formacion de lideres;
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
No lo estamos utilizando, nos gustaria hacerlo, pues creemos que contiene herramientas claves y muy precisas de como trabajar en comunidades
Submitted:
First Name: Sonja
Last Name: O'Flynn
City/Town: Sarasota
State/Province: Florida
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am faculty @ the University of Phoenix -Tampa Campus and the ARNP @ Genesis Health Center in the Newtown area of Sarasota. I am a retired Public Health Nurse from the Suffolk County Dept of Health services on Long Island, N.Y.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am trying to teach the students community/public health nursing.
Submitted:
First Name: lorraine
Last Name: plummer
City/Town: Vancouver
State/Province: British Columbia
Country: Canada
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
program officer
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
for my own education and for use with Aboriginal clients who live on reserve
Submitted:
First Name: Lynette
Last Name: Hopson
City/Town: Williamsburg
State/Province: Virginia
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the statewide coordinator for a project working on primary prevention called DELTA. It is a collaborative agreement between the CDC and 14 state domestic violence coaltions. In Virginia we have 15 teams woking in their local communities to create and implement prevention plans.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am constantly looking for tools the Virginia teams can use to further their plans. I am also looking for new ways of doing old work with a twist.
Submitted:
First Name: Divita
Last Name: Washington
City/Town: Baltimore
State/Province: Maryland
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I currently work for a housing consultanting firm. Some of our funding to assist families comes from grants.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Learning how to write grants
Submitted:
First Name: Michelle
Last Name: Ortega
City/Town: Chicago
State/Province: Illinois
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
In May of 2004 I participated in a leadership training program that asked us to develop a project utilizing our new skills. Either we design our own project or join an exisiting one. I choose to design my own project which is to develop a neighborhood organization for my community. At one time or another there was an organization, I feel confident it can be done again. It's something long overdue and it is evident that our community is not receiving the resources that is directed to our part of the city, of which includes Several smaller communities. but since we don't Voice our needs, I feel we don't get to take advantage of what resources instead, we get taken advantage of. I'd like to change that and give our community a voice once again.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
today, I used the Community Tool Box for ideas to help design our Mission Statement. I find this site very helpful and will return. thank you for being available.
Submitted:
First Name: Georgie
Last Name: Kovacs
City/Town: Lakeland
State/Province: Florida
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Public Health student at University of South Florida
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Community Tool Box helps me do my papers and assigned projects. It is a great addition to class room learning.
Submitted:
First Name: Jeff
Last Name: Benton
City/Town: Bayfield
State/Province: Wisconsin
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I have recently finished a draft copy of a land use plan and had a very low turn out at a public information meeting. I have a public meeting scheduled for March 8th and would like to increase participation by community members
Submitted:
First Name: Kellie
Last Name: Gibson
City/Town: Laurel
State/Province: Montana
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a VISTA in Montana working with a coalition for a drug free community
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Using it to provide infrastructure for the coalition and as a tool to lead the coalition.
Submitted:
First Name: Karin
Last Name: Donald
City/Town: Napier, South Africa
State/Province: W Cape
Country: Other
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the Community Developer at Napier Child Welfare. Napier is a small town in South Africa, which has a community largerly dependant on social grants
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I discovered CTB whilst surfing. I can see it will be a valuable tool in getting me on the road to success in my new job, as community developer
Submitted:
First Name: Danielle
Last Name: Truxaw
City/Town: Santa Barbara
State/Province: California
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I love this site!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Beatrice
Last Name: Avul
City/Town: Lagos
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a Nigerian who lives in the busy and bustling city of Lagos
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
To help us design and implement sustainable community development programs
Submitted:
First Name: deborah
Last Name: russ
City/Town: Ramona
State/Province: California
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Nursing student
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
school
Submitted:
First Name: Terin
Last Name: McGee-deAvalon
City/Town: Salem
State/Province: Oregon
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm the director of a mental illness drop in center.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
This is the first I've seen it. I was told it would be a good resouce for the Center.
Submitted:
First Name: Dawn M
Last Name: Sells
City/Town: Farmington
State/Province: New Mexico
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Love Service Learning and promoting it in our community...volunteer
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am using it as a resource and guide to set up a small web-curriculum that I am creating for a webcourse AND to possible use refer to the site when I train teachers.
Submitted:
First Name: Sean
Last Name: Egan
City/Town: Albany
State/Province: New York
Country: United States Of America
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
labor/community activist
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?: