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First Name: Davida
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I work at the Bowdoin Street Health Center in Dorchester, Massachusetts We have a Community Health Worker Program which has been responsible for some outstanding work in our community which is located in Boston. There are six of us who are currently a part of this project. I also work in our Occupational and Evnironmental Health Program at the health center.
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First Name: diane
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I am an evaluator in the Chronic Disease Branch. I need information on "indicator" for evaluating community-based programs
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I work with HOPE for Kids and immunization outreach in the North Philadelphia community. I also just received a fellowship with AmeriCore to do more extensive work in the community. I think the Community Tool Box is a great idea, and I look forward to sharing more ideas!
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The Toolbox is a great resource for collaborative planning. I will continue to visit your site. Very informative!
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First Name: Jamie
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I am the director of International Health Programs for a company that is developing and implementing health education programs in Pakistan.
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First Name: Miriam
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I am working with a Healthy Communities*Healthy Youth initiative to promote awareness, interest and involvement in our community.
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First Name: Thomas E.
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I am the Director of the Ocean State (RI) Adult Immunization Coalition
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First Name: Kelly
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I am the director of the North Lawndale Neighborhood Small grants initiative for the Steans Family Foundation in Chicago, IL. I am in search of resources for community residents applying for small grants.
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student at cmu
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First Name: Lynn
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I am a consultant and coordinator of a community health initiative. This appears to be an interesting site!
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I am a consultant and coordinator of a community health initiative. This appears to be an interesting site! The initiative is called Healthy Meriden 2000 and is a needs assessment based initiative which has been working on various issues for the last four years.
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First Name: Rachel
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I am a 3rd hear health education student at Dalhousie university (NovaScotia) I am currently taking a course on community development. I found the tool box very helpful in helping me understand working with the community
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First Name: Rachel
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I am a third year health education student and am currently taking a course on community development. I found the tool box a very good resource and info. supplement for my course.
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First Name: Charlene
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I am looking for information on the Boston Miracle. I am from Springfield.Oregon and we held a commnuity forum this evening on juvenile violence. Gregory Bodenhamer , author of Parent in Control is on our advisory board for The Ribbon of Promise which was formed after the school shooting here in springfield last May. Mr. Bodenhamer has stated this program is very effective. Any information would be helpful.
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First Name: Raynard
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My goal is to use my expert communications skills and general awareness regarding the direction of technology to develop programs and services of interest and utility. I subscribe to the motto of Daniel Burnam: Dream no little dreams.
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First Name: Syed
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I am interested in community involvement,assessment,and establishment if community responsive research.I am exploring your web site.Thanks
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First Name: Louis
Last Name: Cohen
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I am Director of Planning for 13 not for profit hospitals in the State of Alabama (Baptist Health System).. I will be embarking on several health needs assessments during the next six months. I would like to be affiliated with this organization to learn and share. Thanks.
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First Name: Lin
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Freelance health and human services writer with specialinterest in organizational change I work from Toronto Ontario Canada
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I direct the NYS Healthy Heart Program - was talking with arthur Himmelmann last night about his upcoming session in NYS and he menioned your site...so here I am...just starting to dig into it! we are using the monitoring system you all - all cdc developed - in our coalitions around the state..and hope to get some help from you with new 4 we got from cdc.
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First Name: Elizabeth W.
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I am an Analyyst at the Massachusetts Dept of Public Health. I participate on a team to evaluate a coalition-based, teen pregnancy prevention program. We currently have a comprehensive management information system in place collecting lots of great process data. This winter we are embarking on focussing on 3 coalitions for an indepth assessment at program outcomes.
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I am a Public Health Nutritionist working at Lambton Health Unit in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. I coordinate the Heart Health program, which is a province wide initiative. I found your website very useful and the tools will become invaluable as we progress along. Thank you!
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First Name: R. Prasaad
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Project Director, AIHA Healthy Communities Partnership for Empowering Women to Care for their Health in Constanta Romania.
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First Name: Debra
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Work with schools in the community
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Coordinator for a two county collaboration for development of new prevention and early intervention programs for the safety and security of children and families in southeast Iowa.
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First Name: Elaine
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VERY IMPRESSIVE and EASILY ACCESSIBLE WEB-SITE! K-State Research and Extension is just beginning a 5-year project for at-risk youth programming and organizational capacity-building. I've been interested in the Community Change (tool kit) concept as it relates to organizational change. Have organizations used your concepts for capacity building in "communities of association" (ie., organizations such as Extension)? Thanks!
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First Name: Dan
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I am a long time progressive actavist currently working with The Florida Coalition For Peace And Justice
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First Name: Althea
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Have been to two forums now and are planning soon to introduce ourselves to the community.
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First Name: Steven
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I am a VISTA volunteer working through the Community Partnerships Division of Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft. Collins, CO. I am working on drug and alcahol abuse prevention programs.
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First Name: Andrew
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I am project manager for Diabetes Today, a community health project which will do national training to create community interventions. Please keep us on your list for anything new and in particular for diabetes related community health projects.
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First Name: Teresa
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I am Coordinator of the Howard County Office of Substance Abuse Impact Services. In June 1998, members of our community were trained in Asset-Based Community Development. We are just beginning this process.
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First Name: Arlene
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I'm on faculty at the Institute for Families in Society, University of SOuth Caroliona
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As Director of Community and Public Involvement for the Vancouver Richmond Health Board, I am responsible for ensuring the board's principle of effective involvement of communities and particular populations in the development of health issues and solutions. With a staff of community developers we support communities to identify health issues, organize community responses and advise the board in their policy decision making. This website is a find; it confirms our direction in many areas but also provides a wealth of practical tips for our work. Thanks.
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I'm a psychology undergraduate who has elected for community psychology and we have to spend 70 hours devloping a poverty stricken estate and have to do a portfolio assessment on community change.
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First Name: Colette
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Quality L.I.F.E. is an ongoing project established to reduce teen pregnancy. Please visit our website at www.qualitylife.com. Though we are in Dodge City, we are available across the internet via the qpals address to anyone wanting to get information or ask sensitive questions anonymously.
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I got my MPH degree from KUMC on May, 1996. Right now I am the Epidemiologist for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Program. I have found the community tool box very informative and friendly. Congratulations!!
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I am a student in a community psychology class and I would like to learn how to start an AIDS/HIV prevention program in my hometown high school.
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Vice President for Human Resources at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend KS. Six months ago I moved to Great Bend from the Chicago area. I have a keen interest in collaborating with school districts and KHA to increase the ranks of health professionals at all levels in the state of Kansas.
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I work with a school-based community nursing center. I am interested in linking Health Promotion and Community Organizing
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First Name: Deborah
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Grad student...work w/community-based nonprofit endeavoring to develop a permanent housing site for migrant farmworkers.
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Manager for ICAN - International Cancer Association Network Manager for Starflower Pub. P/L. - Pub Health Books etc. ICAN - 02-6-9251 4140 Fax - 02-6-9247 5453 , Sydney, Australia
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I am not sure if I am contacting the right place, but it is worth a shot. I am looking to start a petition and wondering how to do it. Do you have any pointers or suggestions? Thanks.
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I am not a professional activist, I do not know where to channel my e-mails and was hopinng your organization and your contacts may help. I am specifically seeking those who may have contacts in southern california, particularly L.A county... It is with the utmost urgency that I write this letter, in hope that I can help prevent an ecological disaster in a city that has precious little nature left as it is. Let me briefly explain the situation and hope that this plea can be acted upon before irreversible damage is done to perhaps the most historic wetland in all of Los Angeles - the La Brea Tar Pits at the Page Museum. Please listen to my observation of the situation as time is of the utmost importance since more destruction is scheduled for next week! My name is John Greenlee. I am the owner and operator of the Greenlee Nursery, a supplier of native grasses and author of "The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses", an authority on native grasses, sedges, and rushes. Because of my experience I was asked by the contractor, Valley Crest, to come to the site to save some native sedges, propagate and grow them so they might be replanted after landscape renovations to the museum grounds have been completed. Today, to my horror, as I went to the site to pick up these native sedges, I discovered that the original native reeds and rushes surrounding the historic Tar Pit ponds have been bulldozed out! Physically, mechanically removed. I was shocked and stunned by what I feel to be a gross mistake, one that may not be salvageable unless action is taken immediately to stop this destruction. Observing what I believe to be the systematic dismantling of one of the oldest and perhaps most historic wetlands in all of Los Angeles, I asked the contractors what was the reason for this action. I was told by the landscape foreman that the next step was going to be the sterilization of the pond by chemical treatment to remove all vestiges of the native plant materials and the spraying is to take place sometime next week! I believe we must act now to stop the spraying. There are some native rushes still left but these are slated to be killed by chemical application. Why is this happening? The architect's office, Fong and Associates, and the landscape contractors told me the county mosquito abatement district wants them removed to fight mosquitoes! This explanation is absurd and goes against all that I know about mosquito abatement. The presence of native rushes does not cause mosquito infestations. This is patently false. The prime breeding ground for mosquitoes is standing water in old tires, buckets, and anywhere water is left to collect in total absence of any vegetation. It is my understanding, and I have consulted with Neil Diboll, world renowned restoration ecologist, who supports my position that emergent aquatics, the term for the native rushes and tules, are essential habitat for insect predators. Predators, such as the dragon fly, are voracious consumers of mosquitoes. The city - in short - is being sold a bill of goods. Once again, someone mistakenly believes that taxpayer subsidized chemical applications is a better solution than a natural, balanced ecosystem. This belief is not only poorly conceived and without scientific substantiation, but there is far more to lose. What are we about to lose? Genetic material that has been on this very same site, since perhaps the days that those now extinct animals once trampled upon it to search for water - the native sedges and rushes. Once chemical sterilization is complete, this historic vegetation will cease to exist! Perhaps 45,000 years of ecology will cease to exist! Remnants of the rushes and sedges are still on the site. But, for how long? Dragon flys perch and molt on rushes and sedges. How does the county propose to replace the lost habitat? This grave mistake must be halted before any further damage occurs. We must act now, or we will lose this bit of remnant nature forever! If there is anything I can do please call me anytime day or night. office: (909) 629-9045 (leave a message and I will check in) pager: (888) 945-2362
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I work with Community Support Programs, Inc. We are a private non-profit agency in Shreveport, La. The address is 610 Marshall, Suite 405, Shreveport, LA 71101.
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I am the State-wide Community Organizer for OutFront Minnesota, the largest Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender organization in Minnesota
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Community psychologists on the psychology faculty of the University of the District of Columbia. Teaching areas include social change and prevention in mental health, community psychology. Research interests include homelessness; the role of religion and spirituality in promoting well being; stress management/resistance.
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I have been an ak amputee for the past 18 years. I am 43 years old and have my own business. I am looking for information on how to present to the city officals a recommendation to hold a disability awareness day. I have seen them in the past in other cities but not ours. There is little regard for complying with the ADA in this city and we are beginning a renaissance program. It would be an idea opportunity to bring awareness to the fore front during the rebuilding of our town.
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I am a community development graduate student at UC Davis. My interests are in environments for teens. I would be interested in any information or additional web sites that are focued on this issue. Thanks-
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I am a PhD student in the School of Public Health @ the University of Illinois @ Chicago. I've used the "But Why?" technique in previous jobs, and was happy to find its source through your organization. It's a great tool and I had had it in mind for use with a current class project. Thanks.
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I am a Public Health Nurse with the City of Milwaukee Health Dept. Immunization Project. We have just formed a county- wide coaliton for childhood immunization and are also developing the immunization registry for this area.
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First Name: John Howard Society of Kingston
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We are a NGO which provides direct service to prisoners while incarcerated and upon release. We do reform and advocacy on prison issues. We are concerned about criminal justice issues and provide public education on these issues within our community.
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