Guestbook entries

Submitted:
First Name: Dan
Last Name: Gray
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a research assistant at the Center for Healthy Communities, Medical College of Wisconsin. We are working on a summer project to produce a directory of community health programs in the state of Wisconsin. If you know of any online, or other, directories that already exist it will help me to conceptualize our own project.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Ellen
Last Name: Hayse
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am involved in coordinating a community council in Marquette, Michigan, which focuses on addressing the issue of domestic violence. A replication manual must be written about the Council and its work, for other communities to use as a guide.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Calvin
Last Name: Young
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Executive Director Community Minority Cultural Center, Inc. 298 Union Street, #2 Lynn, MA 01901 Without substantial funding, we are looking to design a website by 9/30/98 and begin doing community building especially among minorities and recent immigrants to Lynn.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Robert
Last Name: Burket
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Director of an AHEC Program (Area Health Education Center)
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Amanda
Last Name: Purcell, MPH
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
CA Project LEAN is currently coordinating a statewide advocacy program for high school students. Students are trained to advocate for increased healthy eating & physical activity options in their schools & communities. We have recommended your web site to all of our local contractors; I hope they will take advantage of it!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Marilyn
Last Name: Duff
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a graduate student in social work looking for information on community organizing.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Robert
Last Name: Moser, MD
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Rural Family Physician in Tribune, KS.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Laura
Last Name: Land
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a grad studeny in comunity health nursing and public health at the University of Washington. Strong interests include community development, community based primary health care, political advocacy and policy development. Thank you!!!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Peter
Last Name: Battani
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a director of a community and university partnership. The purpose of the partnership is to work with neighborhoods in the city of Kalamazoo, MI on community and economic development.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Spence
Last Name: Jacobsen
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I enjoyed looking thru your site, but did not find what I wanted. I'm looking for help to improve the conditions of a cps child group home that is in my area. I can't beleive the state of Arizona would allow this to continue.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Priscilla
Last Name: Boston
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Coordinate field staff for the Public Health Promotion program at the Texas Dept. of Health.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Margot
Last Name: Hughes-Lopez
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Looking at establishing a tool kit approach to healthy communties in the Greater Sonoma County California area...
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Margot
Last Name: Hughes-Lopez
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Exploring the implementation of community tool box model in Sonoma County California
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Kate
Last Name: Nickel
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Please contact me. I am very excited about your site and want to use it with my students. What restrictions apply? Thank you. Kate Nickel
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Greg
Last Name: Pawlson
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Am doing survey and creating data base-and special interest group (population and commuity health) for the Association of American Medical Colleges. Hope to build website within AAMC webpage that will like to sites like this one. Would be interested in any information on linkages between AAMC's and Community health
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Donna
Last Name: Rue
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Great tool box. Loved the presentations at SOPHE meeting in texas. Also like the Guide for Problem solving. I'm in the process of developing a survey for County-wide input into Public Health awareness, useage, and needs as perceived by lay, prof. and all ages. Any tools for survey design and /or a survey I could modify for our area? thanks again for a much needed tool box.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: CHERYL
Last Name: THOMSON
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I AM THE COMMUNITY COORDINATOR FOR S. BERKSHIRE WIC.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Quintin
Last Name: Kelley
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I was wondering whereI could pick up the entire book on the community tool box series. Please inform me ASAP.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Edmund
Last Name: Dyke
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am working for Community Health Connections, Inc, a startup non-profit organization whose goal is to open a community health center in Fitchburg, MA.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Carolyn
Last Name: Koberg
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the Director of Prevention Services for substance abuse and as assisting with community development to assist our community in becoming healthier and safer.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: judy
Last Name: benson
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a mother of three (7 yrs,4 yrs, and 2 yrs). My husband is a general contractor. We have our own company...Benson Builders, Inc...We live in the mountains of Colorado. We moved here about seven years ago. I am a registered nurse, but I have not practiced actively since we had the kids. I try to be very involved in the school and right now I am on a mission to try to get more community involvement as a whole...so we can get to know each other and reap the benefits from community involvement. There is a great need for community involvement in this area. We live in a small, financially challenged community where most of the homes have both parents working out of necessity to "make ends meet". I would appreciate any helpful input you can provide us with. Thank you! judy
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Karen
Last Name: Metzler
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a health educator for the Alleghany County/Covington Health Department in Soutwest VA working primarily in programs addressing teen tobacco use and teen pregnancy.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Janis
Last Name: Avery
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the Managing Director of Treehouse, a small non-profit that provides opportunities for abused and neglected kids. We send children to summer camp, fund recreational and enrichment activities, distribute clothes and other needed items, and provide tutoring -- all to help ameliorate the effects of a traumatized childhood.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Beth
Last Name: Generali
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am employed by the State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development. I work in the City of Bridgeport administering state and federal funds for housing and community development.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Sara
Last Name: Wiesenberg
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
spearheading committee for women's health center in our community that is not physician run and concentrates more on health promotion and disease prevention - need help with needs assessment phase!!!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Dina
Last Name: Abad
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am involved in capacity building for government officials and staff for good governance. I am particularly interested in techniques and tools for consensus building.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Rand
Last Name: Knox
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
The problem of economics in America seems to be a direct outcome of the usurpation of democracy by the emerging corporataucracy... the loopholed, off-shored and cross-bordered... who stack the economic deck in their own favor (wouldn't you if we'd let you?)... so the treatment merely means reclaiming representative democracy... -- May I suggest a website you may wish to link to in this regard: -- DEMOCRACY DIRECT: Reclaiming Representative Democracy -- its at -- http://www.marinternet.com/rknox/car15.html -- Another site which suggests that the Great American Car Deal is a fitting metaphor for what's screwing America up...-- -- CARveat Emptor: Tricks of the Great American Car Deal -- -- (Repairing the costly dings in car deals for family and village values...) -- is at -- http://www.marinternet.com/rknox -- -- you may be able to find a fitting place to link these sites on your links page... -- Cheers, and happy wheeling and dealing... -- Rand
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Leatrice
Last Name: Martin
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
31186 Duke Heart Center Community Educatiob Programs Durham NOrth Carolina 27710
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: S
Last Name: Perez
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hello, What a great site! I am a Ph.D student and needed a quick reference on evaluation for a presentation...not only was your site complete, informative, and useful...but there were pre-made overhead transparencies! Wow! I will be back often. Thanks, tonite I get to watch a movie instead of sitting on-line!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Betty
Last Name: Daley
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a parent activist in Ontario around disability issues
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Cristeto
Last Name: Cabe
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Filipino citizen working with a cement manufacturing plant - Alsons Cement Corporation. I am assigned as a Community Development Officer of the Alcantara Cement Business Enterprise. I handle the community development and relations concerns of three (3) cement lines.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: viktorija
Last Name: Cucic
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am medical doctor, professor of social medicine , living in Yugoslavia , working at the community development project for Kosovo. I need as much help and advices I can get. than you.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Richard
Last Name: Edwards
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
teaching @ Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Margaret
Last Name: Beall
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Public Health Consultant
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Meagan
Last Name: Zimbeck
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an undergraduate at the University of Kansas majoring in Medical Anthropology. I have been involved with and am interested in research opportunities that address adolescent pregnancy in Kansas.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Caruana
Last Name: David
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am preparing an ACTION PLAN to set up the Cottonera Community Development Initiative in a socially depressed area where educational and social exclusion is high. As this is a new initiative, in the small island of Malta of 350,000 people in the Mediterranean [Europe], I need advice and support from people and organisations who have experience and committment towards capacity building and empowerment of socially disadvantaged groups and individuals. I went through your toolbox. It is extremely helpful and inspiring but key sections of it are not accessible e.g. Chapter 7: Developing an organisational structure, Chapter 8 and Chapter 9, and other Chapters. They are so focused and therefore can help me so much to be on the right track and yet are not available. Can you consider whether you can remedy this situation and help me with my endeavour? Thanks. David.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: dan
Last Name: rood
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
hey- the new site looks great! Can't wait to dig into the content!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Susan
Last Name: Baker
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
We are the South Alliance Health Clinic, a non-profit free health clinic that uses no guidelines for receiving health care. We are looking for funding for our clinic. Is there any information out there regarding this problem? You can reach us at CSBaker@premaonline.com
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: andrea Mailea
Last Name: mailea
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Greater Acre Neighbors Group/Crime Watch & Community Improvement. i'm taking this class at LTC to learn how to use the internet.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: jeanne
Last Name: cambray
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Pawtucketville resident
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: jeannine
Last Name: yianopoulos
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Wayne Hayes and Jeannine enjoyed your course
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Barber
Last Name: Kate
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm working on a community mapping and systems project in a downtown neighbourhood of Toronto and have found your resources to be really helpful
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Cathy
Last Name: Davis
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Excellent information. I am the UAW Community Health Care Initiative Director, enjoyed meeting Steve Fawcett at the April 20-21 conference in Wichita.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Kristin
Last Name: Antony
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I bagan auditing your HDFL 310/311 class and got info about this web page from there. I am working on a masters degree in nursing and was using this info to learn more about community health.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: David
Last Name: Rice
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I work for the Governor of Vermont as a policy advisor, and I am personally very interested in the nonprofit sector.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: alan
Last Name: nyitray
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I direct two community development projects in Tucson and I'm very excited to see your site. The chapters of text in the Community Building Tools section is extremely useful. When are all of the sections going to be on line? and where can I get a hard copy in the meantime? Alan Nyitray Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Helen
Last Name: Bateman
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a PH.D. in psychology (currently a McDonnell fellow) at Peabody College. I am interested in school/classroom communities. My research focuses on students' sense of community in the school/classroom.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Lindsey
Last Name: Butler
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Project Leader in Community Development Project, Ireland Born USA living Eire 15 years 2 children , Id love to know whats going on in community development in the states!
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: John
Last Name: Robitscher
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a rural health advocate who is skilled in community development. I work primarily in the State of Georgia where the needs here are great. I am working to build a voice for minorities in rural Georgia so that local communities can discover their own solutions to the critical health problems they face and affect future state policy.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: nathan
Last Name: Fleischmann
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a teenager in columbia Missouri and I was looking for ways to make money mainly a list of places to ask for grants because I would like to buil a nonalcholic nightclub for teenagers maybe you can help sorry i don't have more time I will try to write back thanks.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?: