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First Name: Freddrenna
Last Name: Lyle
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Newly appointed to leadership position in older midwestern inner city. Looking for development resources to maintain balance of middle class vs. permanent underclass.
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First Name: Nikki
Last Name: Economou
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I work at CDC (as an HIV Prevention Project Officer) and would like to put together info that will help my areas. Thanks
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First Name: Gloria
Last Name: Frederick
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Practitioner in the field of community development and enighborhood empowerment. Am interested in information about community development corporations for dissertation research.
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First Name: Mai
Last Name: Totani
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I am visiting from Japan. I like your museum.
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First Name: Julia
Last Name: Ferrell
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Your museum is wonderful! I live in Platte City and would like news of special events in this district.
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First Name: Alberto
Last Name: Ramos
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I'm the Minority Health Coordinator for the Texas Department of Health Region 11 in Harlingen. I cover 19 counties in South Texas. I'm interested in community organization and coalition building resources.
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First Name: Cheryl
Last Name: Clark
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I am a VISTA Leader who organizes the Community Development Apprenticeship Program (CDAP) in Massachusetts that places 15-20 VISTAs at our member CDC's. The information found here is very relevant. Thanks. Can this book be purchased?
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First Name: Joan
Last Name: Kraft
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I work in the Behavioral Intervention Research Branch (BIRB) in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention-Intervention, Research, and Support (DHAP-IRS) at the CDC. We have several community projects. In collaboration with 8 investigators, we are developing and evaluating a community-level HIV intervention for young men who have sex with men (YMSM). We will assess individual and community changes. In another project, the Community Indicators Project, we are trying to develop a model and measures for a community-level HIV intervention that seeks change in community characteristics that influence risk behavior and the sustainability of interventions.
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First Name: Juan
Last Name: Sepulveda
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I am the Executive Director of a nonprofit organization called The Common Enterprise. We were created as part of a national community building intiative of the Rockefeller Foundation. Our mission is to help build a stronger Greater San Antonio region by increasing the quality and quantity of civic and political participation and leadership, and by helping inform and improve public policy. We run various programs, including leadership programs for young people (sophomores in high school), neighborhood leaders, and elected officials. We are currently helping the City of San Antonio with a communitywide revitalization effort. Part of our charge is to collect best practices, lessons learned, tools, etc for our group to consider as we create a menu of options for San Antonio. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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First Name: Kimonui
Last Name: Holgen
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I work for the Hawaii State Dept. of Health (DOH) in the Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Prevention & Control program. We are coordinating a pilot project in a local community with their health clinic that combines the efforts of six DOH programs in an effort to improve health status particularly with respect to CVD, Diabetes, Tobaco, Nutrition, Physical activity, and Community cohesiveness in Health. The hope is that this experience will provide the infrastructure for a model that can be transplanted to other state communities with similar health challenges.
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First Name: Linda
Last Name: Parzero
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Educator, have 3 adolescent daughters who do community service, active in church, children's activities
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First Name: Pascal
Last Name: Shahbaz
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This is to inform you that Peace Development Fellowship is a registered development and charitable organization working for the poor of the poorest and oppressed community of Pakistan for the last three years and is involved in various development programmes as under: Micro-Enterprise Development Programme. Women Development Programme. Child Health & Education Programme. Community Development Programme. Environment. Bonded Labour. The purpose of writing you is this that we are a development organization and depends on donations and grants to implement development programmes for the uplift of the community at present we have very limited funds to keep our projects running, so it is requested to support us or direct us to any other suitable donor who is willing to support these kinds of development programmes. kindly note our mailing address: Peace Development Fellowship 548-R Model Town Extension Lahore-54700, Pakistan Ph: 92-42-586 8348 e-mail: pdforg@brain.net.pk Thanking You. Regards
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First Name: Janis
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I will be taking the Healthy Communities class at the Greenbush site starting tomorrow. I am very excited about beginning the class. I hope to be accepted into the MPH program for the summer of 98. Thanks for putting this class together for us. It is so far to travel to other sites, that I for one am very appreciative of being able to take the class at Greenbush. See you tomorrow!!!
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First Name: Katherine
Last Name: Salt
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Radical Artist, interested in practically every liberation struggle: labor, earth, womens, queers, people of color, indigenous peoples, ...you know. Learning about effective organizing and uses for art in organizing, conciousness raising etc. Thanks for making the website-good work!
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First Name: Judy
Last Name: Bauer
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R.N. in public health, enrolled in Building Healthy Communities, Spring 98. R. N. in public health, enrolled in Building Healthy Communities, Spring 98
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Last Name: downey
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communications coordinator for pennsylvania...looking for opportunities to network with other pr/communications folks...searching for roundtables/symposiums/workshops for this purpose.
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First Name: Kris
Last Name: Antony
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I'm a nurse with 13 years experience in mental health. I'm working on a master's degree in mental health nursing and plan to graduate in May (YAY!!)
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First Name: Kori
Last Name: Zimdars
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I am a Commmunity Health Education Student at the Univeristy of Arizona!!
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First Name: Jeffrey
Last Name: Goldblatt
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With Prevention Services, Office of Mental Health for Children and Families, MI Department of Community Health
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First Name: katie
Last Name: adams
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Senior Nursing major at Villanova University. Visiting this site is an assignment for class. I am graduating in May and hope to find a job in the Baltimore area or the D.C. area.
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First Name: Kimberly
Last Name: Lanfranca
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I am a senior nursing student at Villanova and was told to access this page by my teacher. We will be doing a community assessment project and presentation and hopefully your web page will help me throughout the semester.
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First Name: Tom
Last Name: Raterman
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I am an artist-theologian-social worker who teaches at a Canadian College. I teach, among other things, community development subjects. I have been active for many years in various community development issues.
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First Name: rebekah
Last Name: venezia
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senior nursing student at Villanova University
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First Name: Carol
Last Name: Schiffelbein
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I am the administrator of the Community Health Center of Finney County in Garden City, Kansas. I have recently enrolled in the "Healthy Communities" distance learning course and will be participating from the GCCC campus.
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First Name: Carol
Last Name: Schiffelbein
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I am the administrator of the Community Health Center of Finney County in Garden City, Kansas. I have recently enrolled in the "Healthy Communities" distance learning course and will be participating from the GCCC campus.
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First Name: ruthann
Last Name: dyer
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I teach community hygiene in the Internation Health Program at Seneca College. This is a program for individuals who are interested in working in developing communities.
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First Name: CHERYL
Last Name: RAJOTTE
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I WORK FOR MT. CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER IN PITTSBURG, KS AS THE DIRECTOR OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES. I AM AN ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE PRACTITIONER AND I ALSO SERVE AS THE CRAWFORD COUNTY CHAP COORDINATOR FOR OUR COUNTY.
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First Name: shannon
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I am a senior at the University of Kansas. I will be graduating in May with a BS in Journalism. I worked as an intern for the Community Developmant Dpt. in the City of Lake Forest one summer and found it to be very rewarding work. That motivated me to take the course, Community Health and Development. I hope to use some of the skills I learn to better whichever community i live in after graduation.
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First Name: Ellen
Last Name: McCue
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I administrate a grant for the City of Wellington from the Kansas Health Foundation---and I am NEW to the Internet. I'm trying to find the HDFL class quiz!
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First Name: Anne
Last Name: Sheehan
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I am auditing the HDFL 501/710 course at the Regents Center this spring.
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First Name: Beth
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Involved in program development at Goodhue County Community Health Services
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First Name: Elvis
Last Name: Patterson
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I'm a first time user of this system .
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First Name: Mary Beth
Last Name: Wrenn
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Have been a frequent visitor since fist discovering this site back in September of '97. I work in several communities, one of which is a Turning Point site. Whenever we hit a snag, I know I can visit this site for an infusion of enthusiasm and fresh ideas!! Thanks!! (I'm visiting today to add the site to my home computer "favorites.")
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First Name: Eldon
Last Name: Davis
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I am employed as an adjunct professor at Peru State College Peru Ne. I'm also a clinical social worker for a local mental health clinic. Currently I'm teaching two courses one in macro social work and the other is in sociology the title is community organizations.
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First Name: Mary Kay
Last Name: Hamel
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I am with the Davidson County's Metropolitan Health Department, located in Nashville, Tennessee.
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First Name: Mary Kay
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I am located in Nashville, Tennessee.
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First Name: Christina
Last Name: Harms
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I am a student currently enrolled in Building Healthy Communities at KU.
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First Name: Marilyn
Last Name: Hull
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I'm a program developer with KU Continuing Education.
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First Name: Barbara
Last Name: Charton
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MSW/MPH with focus in Social and Behavioral Sciences/Epidemiology (MPH) and Community Organizing/Assessment (MSW). Interested in research and evaluation of community health mobilization methoods and strategies.
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First Name: Linda
Last Name: Andersen
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I am a project coodinator at the North Highlands Children's Coalition in California. My organization is currently in the fourth year of a 10 year process. During the next three years collaborative members will be implementing many programs to improve the health and well being of children in our area. We will be offering afterschool activities, parenting classes, a toddler playgroup and a community resource guide in the near future. We are looking for people who would like to assist with the development of these types of activies to contact our office at (916) 332-8242
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First Name: Cindy
Last Name: Blakely
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I am a Health Education minor at Central Missouri State University. I plan to teach high school health education.
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First Name: Judith
Last Name: Lurie
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I am a farmworker attorney in a legal services program in Washington State. We engage in a lot of community education and outreach activities. We are interested in improving our outreach materials and our presenations to community groups.
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First Name: Sharon
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Hi, I'm the YF coordinator out in Gardner, KS. I am here today - a saturday, to try and catch up with data input. Is there anyway you can make up something that we can attach to our brain and everything that we do with youthfriends can be transmitted from our brain to the computer? I just thought this would be an excellent idea. We could plug in each evening and download out of our brain while we sleep. Anyway just thought I'd share this thought!
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First Name: Jill
Last Name: Fremling
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I live in a small community (approx. 400 pop.) we are in the process of starting a womens group in our town. I am working the organization of this committee. I am a voluteer at our school tutoring in many different areas. I am also the JV & Varsity Cheer Coach as well as an officer in our PTA.
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First Name: Jill
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I live in a small community (approx. 400 pop.) we are in the process of starting a womens group in our town. I am working on the organization of this committee. I am a voluteer at our school tutoring in many different areas. I am also the JV & Varsity Cheer Coach as well as an officer in our PTA.
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First Name: Elizabeth
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I am the Community Mobilizer for Marshfield, Mo. C2,000 anti-drug coalition.
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First Name: MK
Last Name: Anderson
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Just visiting--met you at APHA and have finally gotten a moment to check out the site. Am carving out a proposal to begin a community development project between health science students and one of our housing authority communities.
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First Name: Shirley
Last Name: Davis
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I am an RN presently pursuing a career in Independant Practice. I would like to obtain a Degree as an NP (Nurse Practioner) to further this goal. I am interested in Community Health Promotion because of the effect of health on ones life in general. I live in a very diverse community and find that many of the residents of my community dislike having others come into their community to tell them what to do. I wish to eventually open a clinic in my community to assist in health promotion.
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First Name: Janna
Last Name: Deitz
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I am the project coordinator for a newly started rural health coalition in western North Carolina. I will probably be consulting this web site frequently as I can use any information that you might have in this area.
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First Name: Mill
Last Name: Moore
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Owner of a marketing research firm which has done several community needs assessments for United Ways and for health promotion institutions. I'm just looking for new resources, and am particularly interested in finding research models which include community assets as well as needs in assessments.
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