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member and vp reno co health planning council. a turning point initiative.
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First Name: Cassandra
Last Name: Youngblood
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Work for Contra Costa County Health Services as a Health Educator. Interested in access and equity issues for under-represented, disadvantaged groups. Very interested in advocacy.
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First Name: Robert
Last Name: Evans
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I am a Licensed Social Worker and work for the Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Retardation.
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First Name: Kimberly
Last Name: Pizarro
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I am the Community Investment Coordinator for a United Way in Louisiana. We have several community-wide initiatives going, and I am always interested in hearing about what other communities are doing!
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First Name: Dena
Last Name: Jackson
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I am a Health Education Ph.D. student at Texas Women's University in Denton, TX. I was looking for a community development or community organization protocol to critique as a part of a class assignment. Your page was easy to find with a search of "Community and Health and Education". I am looking forward to browsing through your page and marking it for future reference.
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First Name: Lauralynn
Last Name: Staton
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I am the Community Health Manager for a rural - non-profit hospital in central Minnesota.
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Last Name: Estep
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Student, community health major at East Tennessee State U
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First Name: Marie
Last Name: Kissinger
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I teach high school sp. ed. in Battle Creek, Michigan
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First Name: Cindi
Last Name: McGaughan
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i am a health educator for the County of Orange, in the Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Team
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First Name: Claudia
Last Name: Sowell
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Driector of a free medical clinic for the working person and their families who have no medical insurance and meet 185% and below the Kentucky poverty level.
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First Name: Sharon
Last Name: Davids
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A coordinator of a parish nurse network in cooperation with a hospital. Beginning to expand into health ministries to have a greater impact on our communities.
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First Name: Lynda
Last Name: Blades
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I'm the coordinator for the Montana Healthy Communities Initiative.
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First Name: Lauren
Last Name: Corliss
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I am a community health educator in New Hampshire
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First Name: Jerry
Last Name: Wagner
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President, Phelps County Habitat for Humanity in Rolla, MO
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First Name: Eyvonne
Last Name: Rogers, Ph.D., MPH
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I work for a community planning and advocacy agency for substance abuse treatment and prevention programs.I publish a booklet and website of key indicators of substance abuse in Tarrant County, Texas. Web site address: www.tcci.org.
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First Name: Paul
Last Name: Weber
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Housing Officer at the City of Ottawa. Key areas of work are homelessness and rooming houses.
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First Name: Bonnie
Last Name: Weissman
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I am very impressed with the wealth of information you have provided. The information was invaluable and I appreciate the time and effort you have taken to address the breath and depth of the topic. I have taken the opportunity to place it on my favorite list and intend to visit it often. I am a staff Physical Therapist for Kaiser Permanente, in Woodland Hills, California. I attended The Grantsmanship Workshop in June of 1995 and I am continuing my education at California State University Northridge as a Master's Degree Candidate in Public Health. I am an advisory board chair for The Valley Trauma Center, an organization that works with Women and Children who have been sexually assaualted. I also serve on a task force for The Southern California Stroke Association and the advisory board for The Child Guidance Clinic, in the San Fernando Valley. I have one request. I would like to be on your mailing list for future foundation mailings. I would also like to request a copy of your foundation book that Mr. 0rrin Ted Hardgrove referred to at The Grantsmanship Center Alummi Luncheon, in Los Angeles. Thank you for the wonderful technical support and information. My address is 11934 Rexbon Road, Granada Hills, California 91344.
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First Name: Catherine
Last Name: McConkey
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I work as an external evaluator for several Family Connection communities in GA.
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First Name: Yvette
Last Name: Benjamin
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I am a physician assistant, and an advocate for health care for the poor and underserved.
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First Name: Diana
Last Name: Salvador
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I am currently seeking my Psy.D. in school psychology at the Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. I am interested in school/community prevention and intervention efforts.
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Last Name: Williams
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I am always looking for funding opportunities for low-income families who are residents of public housing or housing assistance clients.
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First Name: Diane
Last Name: Lawe
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I learned of your website at a conference. I worked in prevention for 13 years in Illinois and just recently began a new posotion in New Mexico. I've been out of the "Prevention Loop" for 2 years so I wanted to check in and see what was happening.
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First Name: Benoit
Last Name: Thomas
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Community Services Officer at the Kapuskasing O.P.P. Detachment. To find Kapuskasing on the Ontario map, you have to flip it over. Its on the other side.
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First Name: Tammy
Last Name: Matthews
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I am employed by the City of Hampton in the Neighborhood Office. I am currently working a partnership between the City and the Hampton Public School System. We are calling this In-SYNC Partnership. We are involved in educational training, encouraging community members to become partners with the schools. As well as, city departments becoming partners too. We provide matching grants to qualifing neighborhoods who apply to conduct neighborhood improvements, this can be activities or an event...
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First Name: Randolph
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Grad student at Univ of SC and Intern at CDC/DASH. What a wonderful site. I am sure I will be using this site extensively in preparing my thesis.
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First Name: Dr. Judith
Last Name: Whiting-Fickling
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I am with the Institute for Families in Society and work with community-based groups to provide opportunities for families to build and enhance their strengths.
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First Name: Liatris
Last Name: Studer
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MPH Student. Kansas HIV/AIDS Prevention Community Planning Group Member.
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First Name: annette
Last Name: murch
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Chief of Strategic planning and policy. Ohio Dept. Human Services, Prevention Bureau Your work is excellent. I use it extensively with and for our community partners.
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Last Name: Dennis
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Special Projects Manager at rural hospital. Community involvement: Local Habitat for Humanity - V.P. Local Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Agency - Pres. Local United Way - V.P Local County Government - Consultant
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Special Projects Manager at rural hospital. Community involvement: Local Habitat for Humanity - V.P. Local Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Agency - Pres. Local United Way - V.P Local County Government - Consultant
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First Name: Danielle
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I'm working with a year-old DC-based group, Jews United for Justice. Came to your website looking for info, materials, suggestions, inspiration. Thanks!
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First Name: roger
Last Name: musser
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I am a community resource development worker within a state agency and am intrested in earning more.
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First Name: Len
Last Name: Stewart
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Barnstable County, MA (Cape Cod) Department of Human Services, with priorities of increasing access to health care for all our residents (38,000 without health insurance).
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First Name: Beth
Last Name: DeRicco, Ph.D.
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I work with all of the colleges and univeristies in CT doing alcohol, other drug, and violence prevention through capacity building trainings, technical assitance and consultation.
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First Name: Barb
Last Name: Coy
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I am beginning a community assessment for this county and have come to this site for HELP!
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First Name: Kimberly
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I'm a health educator with the Minnesota Department of Health and work with a couple of community coalitions to address diabetes. I heard about your website from Brick Lancaster. What a helpful site!
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First Name: Lori A.
Last Name: Wrzesinski, M.A.
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I am Director of Youth Services for Downers Grove Township. We provide prevention services to 9 villages within the township. These services include but aren't limited to: parenting, life skills in the middle/jr. high schools, conflict resolution programs to elementary age children, various strategies that target substance abuse and violence, two first offender programs, and an anger management group for youth age 12 to 17 and their parents. I have been in the field of prevention for 8 years and started out as a counselor with a private psychiatric group.
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First Name: Steve
Last Name: Lyons
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I am a social worker who is engaged in a needs assessment for McLean County (Illinois). I work for the Applied Social Research Unit, which is part of the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University.
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First Name: Monte
Last Name: Roulier
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Currently serving as the Dialogue Coach for the Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities' Heathy Communities Agenda Campaign. What and extraordinary resource you have here!
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Last Name: Lamb
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Rural Community Health Center Locations in Temperance and Carleton, Michigan
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Last Name: Ehresman
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I am the Director for Program at Citizens for Missouri's Children. In my non-professional life I am an activist with a church-based community organization in my neighborhood.
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I am a social work student at Mount Vernon Nazarene College in Mount Vernon, Ohio
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I work with a network of diabetes community based programs in Texas
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I am the project director for Every Block A Village Online. Our address is www.ebvonline.org.
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First Name: Cyndi
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I'm a director of communications/marketing for a non-profit health care organization.
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Last Name: Regan
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I live in Alderpoint/Blocksburg community in the Southern Humboldt County of California. My community has received a Healthy Cities and Communities Grant and I thought this website might be of use. Thanks.
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First Name: Josephine
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I plan and organize training and technical assistance programs for neighborhood-based organizations and offer a leadership development program. Our organization began in 1994. Web address: www.inrc.org
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First Name: Susan
Last Name: Farrell
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I am delivering a training programme called Health Issues in the Community to a group of women who have been trained as Community Facilitators and I want to discover if this tool box will be of use to them when they go out to work on health projects
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First Name: Peggy
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I must complement you on your website. It is not only beautiful and well-organized, but also contains great information. Thanks for your work.
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First Name: Joao Paulo
Last Name: Amaro
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Hello! i'm a clinical psychologist with a post-graduation in community mental health and interested in empowerment, participation and community leadership. i live in Lisbon, Portugal and work in ISPA (see www.ispa.pt). Thank you for your site it's help me in my work. in Portugal we have very few instruments of research and evaluation in community psychology.
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