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First Name: Teresa
Last Name: Thompson
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I am the Community Development Manager for United Way of the Tanana Valley. My job is public relations and marketing for our United Way as well as managing the Volunteer Action Center.
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I am preparing a social marketing campaign for two issues identified in a Community Needs Assessment recently completed for our United Way. There will actually be two campaigns - one related to family violence, one to substance abuse. The tool box (chapter M) provided much insight and tools to use in my plan. Thank you SO MUCH.
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First Name: Jenny
Last Name: Rodriguez
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I am a community coordinator for a Lead Poisoning Prevention Program in our city. I am responsible for the outreach and educational component of the program.
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We are exploring the possibilities of expanding our housing programs to include other issues of health and health hazards in regards to the home environment within our agency but we are definitely going to need collaboration among our community partners and organizations. I am currently reviewing your framework for this. YOU ARE A GOD SEND!!!!!!
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First Name: Deborah
Last Name: Bright
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I am the Education Coordinator for our Native Indian reservation in northern British Columbia, CANADA. The CTB is very new to me, however, I plan to refer to it whenever I need information and assistance! It is a Wonderful Resource!
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I plan to use this resource in my work through questionnairs, and planning for positive change. There are so many resources at your fingertips!
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First Name: Tarese
Last Name: Gardner
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I am a outreach worker with Nashville REACH 2010 Project.I am working with the African American community in North Nashville concerning two disparties which are Diabetes and CVD.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Volunteer, substainabilty and change among change agents.
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First Name: Tarese
Last Name: Gardner
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I am a outreach worker with Nashville REACH 2010 Project.I am working with the African American community in North Nashville concerning two disparties which are Diabetes and CVD.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Volunteer, substainabilty and change among change agents.Speakers bureau.
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First Name: Laura
Last Name: DeMars
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I am the HIV Testing and Counceling Coordinator for CarePoint, Inc. I have been working in the HIV field for 5 years now. I give HIV prevention presentations to anyone or place that will let me. I believe that with knowledge in the hands of all will be the only way to stop the spread of this preventable illness.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I have just been sent this link by my grantee. I'm hoping to find information to help with my program. I will also be giving this link to others at my agency and hope it will help them as well.
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First Name: Sheryl
Last Name: Pickering
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I am Local Program Consultant (Health Services Consultant) with the Washington WIC Program. I am also the co-director of our WIC Healthy Habits Project which is helping to revitalize nutrition services in WIC.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
As part of our Healthy Habits Project, we have mini-grant projects with our local WIC agencies and we trained them on evaluation planning. I have been using this site to get ideas on developing a final report format for them. Also, how to write grant applications and finding funding sources. We will be referencing your website during our last training with the Mini-Grant agencies in January 2003.
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First Name: Clara
Last Name: Guillo
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I'm a sociologist working with gender and development issues. MA in Migration Studies (University of Sussex, UK)
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I'm responsible of developing a part of an European Union Programme (EQUAL) in the region of Murcia (Spain) about equal relations between men and women within the family. All participants in my course are the head office of women issues in their town halls. One of the issues is about social marketing and social change.
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First Name: Fransiska Erna
Last Name: Nasution
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I'm working with the Catholic Relief Service-an international NGO based in Baltimore USA-in Jogjakarta Province of Indonesia as the Health Program Coordinator that recently is aiming for community health development in our project area
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I haven't use it yet, but I hope it can be helpfull to reach our program's objective
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First Name: Veronica
Last Name: Eady
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I teach environmental policy at Tufts University, my specialty is environmental justice and working with communities.
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I am using it with my students to help them work with communities and understand communities in a field research class that I teach. I will encourage the students during to explore this website for problem-solving during the course of the semester.
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First Name: Brenda
Last Name: Adams
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Federal Employee of the Agency for Toxic Substances, PHS, HHS. Provide support services to the Community/Tribal Subcommittee of the Board of Scientific Counselors.
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Not sure yet. Trying to determine its use in my work.
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First Name: Sharon
Last Name: Walker
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Registered nurse- on faculty of local college
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resource for teaching aides both for students and local community center
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First Name: Pat
Last Name: Gorell
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Currently, supervise 8 grassroot coalitions that work on youth tobacco, alcohol and drug prevention. Most of coaltions have little to no experience in issue organizing or coaltion building.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
To teach coalition members.
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First Name: Gene
Last Name: Gallegos
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University of New Mexico School of Medicine Community Outreach & Education Program Health Education Consultant
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Hello - I am involved in local efforts to develop a tool box around community assessments...i just discovered your web materials. I will share these with our colleagues and have a much better idea, thanks to you, of the various aspects involved in a tool box.
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First Name: Pamela
Last Name: Milask
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I am a student and part time marketing person at the Eastern School of Acupuncture in Montclair NJ. We are looking to expand our school advertising.
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I came to your site while searching for advertising outlets for the school. I spent only a few minutes browsing your site, and will return to it in teh weeks ahead. it looks wonderful!
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First Name: Donna
Last Name: Van Bogaert
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I am a graduate student in adult education returning to grad school after 22 years of producing corporate training and communications video and consulting on team building and HR development especially creativity and creative problem solving.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
In my grad work, I am currently writing a grant to fund research I would like to do in showing how creativity and brain dominance training speeds recovery of life changing trauma, ie, divorce, death, critical illness. I am looking for ways to conduct my research and instruments that will enable me to effectively measure the results. I am finding the toolbox a very streamlined way to processes that might be useful. If anyone is aware of any research already existing which may help me in this project, I would be very greatful for the information.
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First Name: Beverlie
Last Name: Ludy
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Maryland Cooperative Extension has a CYFAR (Children Youth and Families at Risk) grant to conduct leadership training in at-risk communities. I'm site coordinator for the Charles County site. Have a program called "People Empowering People" for parents at an elementary school.
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I just discovered thia great resource. Look forward to reading and studying the tool box. Looks like it has a lot of information that will be useful in my work.
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First Name: Joy
Last Name: Wingrove
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I am a community staff nurse hoping to further my training in the near future with a degree in district nursing.
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I am currently using your site for a short presentation I have to perform. However, having just discovered this obviously useful site, be sure I will return.
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First Name: Eustolia
Last Name: Ruiz
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I am the Latino 5 A day Program Coordinator at UC-Cooperative Extensions. This position is new I am still trying to organize myself, your web-site has been very helpful.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
How to recruit Volunteers for my Steering Committee.
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First Name: Jennifer
Last Name: Love
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I am a first degree black belt in TaeKwonDo, the first woman firefighter in our town, I am head of the Cardiovascular Health Intervention Program with the Cowley County Health Department and the Health Consultant for William Newton Hospital here in Winfield.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am trying to build up the coalition that I work with on the Cardiovascular Health Intervention Program. We need more members to help plan programs to reduce Cardiovascular disease here in Cowley County. Is there anyway to get a printout of a manual or book on this information? I would be very interested.
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First Name: danuwinata
Last Name: J. Kristinus
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I am a medical doctor (MD) and have graduate master health science (M H Sc) and give lecture in university. I'm interesting to use and promote preventiv medicine to my student
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I just early user and want that toolbox very usefull for me
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First Name: Nancy
Last Name: Myers
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I am in the very beginning stage of my own SED - to start a new industry for the North Coast of California. This industry will accrete minerals out of seawater for use in (initially) artificial bone for transplants and in (later) other uses for this low-cost material, such as construction elements and a new medium for artists. (More information on request.) I am about to graduate (June 1) from College of the Redwoods with an AS degree in electronics technology (microcomputer option).
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I just discovered this valuable resource, but am wondering why I can't access all of the sections. Can you explain this? (If you like, you can edit out everything after the word "resource" and put a period there for inclusion in the guest book.)
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First Name: Frank
Last Name: Lule
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I am Medical Officer from Uganda,Africa - M.Sc. Community Health (Dublin, Ireland).
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I was just browsing! Brilliant and exhaustive tool box. Easily applicable in the Third World as well. How can I access a hard copy to use in Africa? Computers are rare in that part of the world.
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First Name: Daniel
Last Name: Borrero
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I'm a dentist with the USPHS, IHS at the Inscription House Clinic. We are located in the most traditional part of the Dine Nation(Navajo).
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I have been working to start a patient education program in our clinic. I'd like to begin by establishing a participatory community coalition to deal with numerous health promotion issues. I would like to start though with how to prevent early childhood caries. We have the highest incidence in the U.S. I'd like to see our program use the latest knowledge from cognitive science as well as to do everything in a culturally competent way, so we build over the foundation that is already in place. I just found the toolbox site today. I will use it for everything.
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First Name: Maria
Last Name: Lemus
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as director fo the community health worker/promotora project i coordiante the development of a network, provide capacity building and technical assistance and advocate for chw/p's. do you have a list of evaluations of chw's and promotoras, particularly in california or the southwest?
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
we are convening a research advisory committee to look at the what has been defined thus far and how do we evaluate the work of chw/p
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First Name: tom
Last Name: kane
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co ordinator for a newstart project which is running in a area of priority treatment, help tenages empower themselevs and find employment
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This is my first visit, and I hope to pick up new methods and ideas
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First Name: Bruce
Last Name: Petering
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Community Developmenr Officer, Warracknabeal
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Research
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First Name: Destiny
Last Name: Myers
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I am the Manager of Lung Health for the State College Outreach Center of the American Lung Association of PA.
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I am chair of a 12 county community asthma coalition in Northcentral PA. We are currently looking for resources that can help increase our effectiveness.
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First Name: Dr. Lee
Last Name: Bell
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A community Activist/Organizer Radio Show Host Project Coodinator/ Universty of Michigan, School of Public Health
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I use it as a resource for bettering my work
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First Name: Kelly
Last Name: Tucker
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I am a graduate student at University of Michigan. My spring class is an independent study on grant writing. Review of your site is required.
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First Name: Jill
Last Name: Nerheny
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As the Community Co-ordinator for Birkenhead Northcote/North Shore City Council. I work with and for various groups to co-ordinate and improve their service delivery and outcomes/outputs utilising community development principals.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
This is the site for resources, thankyou, I refer many groups to this site.
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First Name: Max
Last Name: Llewelyn
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I am a community group facilitator and my primary function is capacity building and upskilling people and resources within community organisations
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
The Community Tool Box is a particularly useful tool in that I can prepare manuals in a simple language for use by community groups and show them the site so that they can use it as a resource should they require. I have found the Community Tool Box to be excellent and congratulations to those who have and are still putting it together.
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First Name: Peter
Last Name: Newport
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I'm a Unitarian Universalist minister currently completing a residency in Clinical Pastoral Education at the Roger Williams Medical Center here in Providence. I have worked with the Brockton Interfaith Community (BIC) and the Organization for Community Leadership Training in Boston.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I'm not yet, but I am very interested in your approach. I am working on a proposal to help fund hospital-based support groups for family caregivers that seeks to bring that consitiuency together for 1)psychosocial/spiritual support 2)practical education, and 3)resourcing with other institutions/initiatives/services doing outreach to this community. My own observation has been that families with long-term critically ill members, either in home-care or nursing homes, are isolated from larger community and face sometimes sustained periods of dislocation and change with little, if any, support. In effect, looking at the difficult interface of wellness and end-of-life issues in family and community systems.
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First Name: Dr. David M.
Last Name: Kilpatrick
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I am the Executive Director of a broad-based community healthcare coalition that was founded in 1993 called Healthy malden, Inc. We have a web-site at www.healthymalden.org
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
We just became acquainted with it and intend to use it a lot in the future.
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First Name: Richard
Last Name: Galope
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Currently in the process of start-up for community development consulting business. Former public agency management professional with diversified program development, strategic planning, community and government relations, and grant funding acquisition experience spanning eight years and across multiple functional areas in the public and private sectors. Specific expertise in business development, economic and workforce development, strategic partnership development, community organizing, legislative analysis and policy development, with accountability for continuous improvement, personnel supervision and multimillion-dollar budget administration.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Conducting analysis of CTB tools and comparing with proposed business products, services and capabilities to ensure comprehensive inclusion of and compatibility with CTB into service delivery methodologies.
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First Name: Jim
Last Name: Barrett
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I am a life-long activist (can one say that at 30 years old?) who has been involved in political, social, and spiritual actions to raise awareness of the human condition in my various communities. Currently I work for a progressive non-profit.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Using elements from previous agencies, tied together with the great layout and informative "dialogues" from Community Toolbox I have generated a "textbook" on how to be an activist that we call "Activism 101" to empower our members to act in their communities as well (the non-profit I work for works throughout Oregon).
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First Name: Pilgrim
Last Name: Lamb
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I am currently living in an Intentional Community called Twin Oaks. (www.twinoaks.org)
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I'm interested in starting an IC sometime in the future. I am living at TO in order to learn from their system. They've been a community for 35 years. I plan to utilize your website while I'm living here somewhat as a college course. We are currently developing a program under the heading "Community Organizer". I hope to be our first graduate. This is one of the most amazing and informative sites I've ever come across. Thank you!!! Pilgrim
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First Name: Anne-Marie
Last Name: Turnbull
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Psychology Master's graduate planning to work in community liaison and development
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Preparing presentation for local county council. CTB has been invaluable - I'll be referring to it again & recommeding it to colleagues. Thanks for providing this resource.
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First Name: Shay
Last Name: Chan Hodges
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Grant Writer for Community Clinic of Maui, Inc.
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Looking for information related to smoking cessation programs.
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First Name: Sharon
Last Name: Zeiler
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The Canadian Diabetes Association is an independently governed charitable organization whose mission is to promote the health of Canadians through diabetes research, education, service, and advocacy.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
We are looking at examples of educational tools, such as your tool box.
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First Name: Jennifer
Last Name: Hauserman
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I am the "web goddess" for our organization, Pine Gardens Community Organization. We've been working for about 5 years to bring our neighborhood together, and work toward the common goal of making it a great place to raise a family.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Our Community Development representative from The Town of Jupiter emailed me a link to this site. I've looked over it, and it looks great. I can't wait to get the organization in on it.
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First Name: Michael
Last Name: Wilson
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I am a RN working for the past 13 years in the Burn ICU of the Massachusetts General Hispital. My passion is end-of-life-care and I have worked per deim as a Hospice visit nurse for the pasr three years. I am a board member of the Massachusetts Coaliation for Compassionate Care and also a founding member of a coummity coaliation called Pallaitive Care Coalition of the Merrimack Valley. My involvement in end-of-life has been a source of much growth for me personally, professionaly and spiritualy.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I have found the articles and how to guides wonderful in my attempt to pull a community coaliation together. I am a nurse, I have never done such work, but this website makes it possible for me to feel like it is possible to surmount the difficulties of placing three hospitals, two hospices, two family health centers and representives from several other agencies at the same table, rise above territorial and political issues and find a common path to our shared goal of improving the care we give to the dying. I thank you for all your efforts.
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First Name: judith ( Dr.)
Last Name: Palmer Castor
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Mental Health Researcher/consultant Areas of espertise include violence prevention, at-risk youth and femily support programs ( program development, technical assistance and evaluation)
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am searching for a tool that that assesses or evaluates community collaborations; i.e. degree of collaboration such information sharing, relationship development, leadership, decision making, etc. Want a tool that can be administered to collaboration partners or members on some interval basis.
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First Name: Tim
Last Name: Livermore
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I am Asst Health Officer for San Joaquin Co Public Health Svcs. We are part of PPH.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Took your toolbox breakout session today. Enjoyed it. I will return to it sometime soon, and look around. Thanks. -TL.
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First Name: alfred
Last Name: garcia
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will be using for planning
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First Name: Amy
Last Name: Henniger
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Im getting my masters in community social psychology from UMASS Lowell.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am working with Dr. Berkowitz here at UMASS in order to improve upon what is already going on with the community toolbox.
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First Name: Michael
Last Name: Schmidt
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I am currently a hospice director and I have been working with our local EOL Coalition here in Monterey CA, one of the many across the country that started as a result of OOT outreach efforts. We have a viable coalition that continues to work hard through the efforts of community volunteers dedicated to improving how we care for the dying.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
This is my first visit. But hope to see how others are doing in there efforts around the country.
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First Name: Elizabeth
Last Name: Dorda
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I am a mental health nurse for Washtenaw County looking for ways to conduct a community assessment in our community & start a new program. I am also a graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in a Health Promotion & Risk Reduction program.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I heard about the toolbox from public health & am using it for work & School. I love it and will share it with many! What a great sight! Thanks
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First Name: Margot
Last Name: Manning
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I co-ordinate an advocacy project at Virginia House Settlement in Plymouth. I am 49 yrs old and am terrific for my age!!! I work in the best place with the best people and regard myself as being extremly fortunate to be where i am.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
It is my intention to take a Masters course in Community Enterprise at cambridge university and I have an interview on Dec 3rd I am quite nervous and was researching the subject when I came across your site. I have been raving about it ever since. I think it is the most useful and generous site I have encountered and I shall take great pleasure in giving you all credit if and when i use your material. I do not believe in re-inventing the stone as it were, but firmly believe in giving credit where its due and you deserve it in bucket loads!!! Been great talking to you, bye for now
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First Name: Shannon
Last Name: Gravening
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I am a volunteer in my community
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
getting people in my community together to get things done