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Hi,
My name is Shipra . I am 16 years old and a student of DPS Vasant Kunj , New Delhi, India. I am looking to open a club which is a free and safe space for the students to talk about youth and social issues faced by the country which impact the youth. In 2 years of time we will all be eligible to vote for the upcoming central elections i want to make sure that all of my school mates are fully aware of the present situation of the country and use their vote wisely. I wish to educate people of different gender identities and to respect. Some times we might not be aware and might unintentionally hurt someone.
i sincerely hope u will help us. My friends and i look up to you and are open to all suggestions to help introduce the plan to open this club in our school and help us present this to our principle .
Warm regards

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My name is Chelsea Crockford and I work as a Recreation Therapist at a neurorehabilitation center in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Myself and co-worker, Dr.JoAnne Savoie, Neuropsychologist, were successful in a grant from the Chalmers foundation to do a project on health and wellness for persons with disabilities. The proposed project will involve a series of six 90-minute classes (offered quarterly) where persons with disabilities can learn tools and activities that aim to promote emotional well-being, connectedness to their families and communities, and healthy living. Each class will have an educational component, exploration of barriers to participating in new wellness activities and sharing of community resources to open doors to new connections. Classes will be facilitated by a health professional and trained persons with lived experience (identified as mentors in the proposal) who can offer knowledge, expertise and support. Topics are still being considered but we were thinking it might include Goal Setting and Motivation, Physical Activity and Sport, Emotional Well-Being and Coping, Use of Technology to Enhance Well-Being, Social Connectedness and Finding Purpose, as examples.

We are hoping to not have to reinvent the wheel to provide online training for our mentors who will be providing peer support. Do you know of any peer support volunteer training services we can use ? Or do you have any materials to share that could be helpful/relevant?

Thank you very much,

Chelsea

There is a great piece written about Establishing Youth Coalitions by Catie Heaven. This is a topic that my organization would like presented at a conference we are hosting. Is there a way to identify a speaker to cover this topic?

My organization who provides education services for adult Latino immigrants, wants to develop a cooperative business incubation program where its graduates will be able to build their own shared-ownership businesses (worker-cooperative businesses). While the intervention has been selected based on the CEO's interest and belief that cooperative-owned businesses will be an intervention that our students will be receptive to, I would like to explore the necessity of a community needs assessment or survey that at least looks into the students' awareness, perceptions, and knowledge of worker-owned cooperatives, with the purpose of understanding the context of our communities so that we can build an appropriate cooperative-business incubation model that works for our communities. I would like to discuss with an advisor whether I am on the right track with this.

Hi, my name is Cathleen Hays. I am an opioid response project coordinator in the Bloomington-Normal, McLean County, Illinois area, working with Chestnut Health Systems and Illinois Recovery. I am working with both organizations along with the county recovery-oriented system of care (ROSC) council to research and develop a business plan for a recovery community organization/center. I am struggling with how I want to present my findings in a report to share my research. They initially wanted me to conduct a literature review, but I think that might be a bit beyond my ability as it's more graduate school level work. I was thinking maybe of switching to a market research analysis report.

Hi there, I am working with a charter school and advocating for them to hire an in-house community psychologist at each of their campuses. Do you have any suggested resources that point to the value and potential benefits of this investment? I need some support to make my case! Many thanks in advance.

Looking for peer reviewed programs, training, etc.., covering Healthy Alcohol Consumption

I am hoping to use your amazing resource, but I am somewhat confused where to start. I facilitate a coalition of community partners for the reduction and prevention of childhood obesity in our county. I am hoping to pull tools together in order to stay better connected with partners and timeline/task. Is this something that the community toolbox could be beneficial for?

Hi, we lead a statewide disability caucus and have monthly meetings. We have many members and great meetings but we are having trouble creating ways for volunteers to be engaged and a part of our organization - things seem to fizzle out after meetings because we break down around the implementation part. We are a volunteer caucus and our board is made of elected and appointed people, many are there in title only so only a few of us are doing everything - we want to help folks have opportunities to be involved but need help figuring out how to do that - our emails are only opened by 10% or less folks. We are kicking off a campaign right now for representation and seats at the table. Any advice you can share would be GREATLY appreciated, thank you so much!

Hi, my name is Martha Plumlee, and I am an APA editor. I have been editing for about seven years now. A client I am working with has a committee member who told him his archival data is outdated - 2005, but it is still relevant to his study ,since 2005 was the last time the information was published. Is there a limitation on how old archival data should be in a qualitative study? The data was approved by the IRB committee.

Thanks for any help you are able to provide.

Goopy day! My name is Liberty. I would like to know how I can get a copy of the teachings on the community tool box. Someone has just gave me copy of part of chapter 28 section 9 on gratitude and appreciation. That is from chapter one to the last.Thank you for your assistance

Good afternoon.my question is i really want to start a youth center in my community.but i don't know how to start.

I'm in a bit of trouble and a rush. How much should I budget to pay for the services of a community needs assessment consultant who will conduct the needs assessment for a local Head Start program? I need to set up a budget, but I can't find anything on the internet that answers this question.