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I am the project director for a rural health grant in Lenoir City, Tennessee. We are implementing school-based health services in a high school and middle school. Our services include primary care, mental health and education. We are not on-line as yet but can be reached at 423-988-2044.
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Hi. Just browsing. Have been snowed under with my work but am transitioning to a new career in civilian life so hope to have more time and more contact with you all. Regards to Vince Francisco. Go K-State on New Years eve - Happy Holidays. Jim
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I manage the Health Promotion & Policy Development Division of the Pasadena Public Health Department
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This is a very interesting site. Thanks for the problem-sollving questions.
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Incredibly informative! A great resource. I was just wondering when the rest of the toolbox sections will be on-line? Also, is there an email address you can be reached at? Thank you.
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Hello, Jerry Schultz is my cool uncle.
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I am a social worker in a community mental health agency. I recognize that may of our clients would be better served through a more ecological approach to problem solving in targeted neighborhoods. Can you provide any direction in assiting me in developing a survey with residents of a local public housing area that represent high utililzation of mental health, child welfare, and juvenile justice needs? Thanks very much. Appreciate your pages!! My addres s is 100 Main Street Salamanca, NY 14779
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Director, Public Health Nursing Iowa Department of Public Health
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Director, Public Health Nursing Iowa Department of Public Health
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I work for the NSW government in Australia and am very interested in how communities can use information technology for improved community action and participation. Cheers, and happy new year!
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First Name: Caesar
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your site was recommended as an information/intelligence source for organizing activities/issues around public health. I'm working on such a project in Washington, DC involving the reorganization of the public health clinics and hospitals, working to guarantee the involvement, participation and recommendations of low-income (i.e., medicaid and no insurance)communities in the process of making the provsision and delivery of public health services relevant to a broadest interpretyation of community health needs
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I am involved in a Robert Wood Johnson project, Turning Point, in Sitka Alaska and have found your site to be most valuable. Thanks. Nancy
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I teach community health nursing in the midwest. Your site is a good place to send students to browse. Thanks
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I work for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. We provide grant funds to small communities, Native villages mostly, to design and implement their own projects to reduce self-destructive behavior and suicide.
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January 8, 1998 Greetings in the New Year! I hope this note finds you well, refreshed and renewed for 1998. This is a friendly note to let you know about what's happening with Personal Community Support Association here in Edmonton. We have a new Web site: www.compusmart.ab.ca/pcsa. Because we feel our guests would appreciate the information on your web page, we hyperlinked the address of your site. I hope this is alright with you. We would be pleased to hear your comments about what we are doing as well as about the design of our Web Page. Please let me know in our guestbook. If you feel our web site would be of interest to your guests, we would be happy if you hyperlinked our address. Many thanks for your support. Yours in appreciation, Catherine Duchesne
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our Web address http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/pcsa Sorry we forgot to include it in our previous message. Do you have an e-mail address?? please send it to me
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I am the Administrator for Downtown Lawrence Inc, and the Executive Director of the Lawrence Alliance. The organization is in partnership with the City of Lawrence, Haskell Indian Nations University, the Lawrence School District, and KU. It's mission is to eliminate racism and discrimination in Lawrence. Your materials will serve as reference information and will be beneficial to our members.
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state health department
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About to deliver a course entitled Foundations In Community Health Promotion as a step toward developing village-based wellness teams. The course will be distance-delivered using audioconference technology. We are located in the southwest corner of Alaska, near the Bering Sea in a region primarily populated by Yupik Eskimos and Athabaskan Indians.
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Your feed back form is very confusing. I'm not sure that my comments were sent to you.
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I am the director of a public health nursing program operated by the Navajo Nation in Kayenta, Arizona
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I'm a volunteer for the REACH program in Northampton, MA. REACH is a Early Childhood Intervention Program, servicing children age 0 to 36 months. They are looking to build a community network among their clients. I'm searching for grant money to facilitate them hiring someone to act as a liason. I'm interested in your methods, as these may be valuable to them.
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First Name: Karen Denard
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Assistnt Professor of Urban Studies and Community Health. Masters and Doctorate degrees in health education. CHES. Teaching program planning to graduate and undergraduate students. Students conduct or analyze a needs assessment and then develop a program proposal that they present orally and in grant application format. Specialize in social marketing as it applies to health education program planning. Also have extensive performance based training experience as part of 20 years of experience as practitioner and 7 years of academic experience.
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I am the new (one-day-old) Weed and Seed Coordinator for Weinland Park in Columbus, OH. I am interested in any direction/advise/ideas you might be able to offer. Also interested in learning more about your organization. Thanks. L.M. Chambers
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Recreation service for people with disabilities in the Ballarat region of State of Victoria, Australia
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I'm employed at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (one of the CDC-sponsored Prevention Centers). I attended two of your sessions at APHA this week and am excited about using your model to provide training and technical assistance on worksite hpdp for small blue collar workplaces to local health departments in North Carolina. You all are doing great, innovative work!
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Our region is currently working on development of community health centres using a community development model. We are working collaboratively with a number of community partners and this resource will be very useful. One of our community health promotion initiatives-a heart health project -is looking at tools for dissemination of the lessons learned on community mobilization. Again this will be helpful. Thanks
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I am an Extension Educator for Purdue University. I work from a field office located 200 miles from campus . My duties include the informal education of youth and adults in the areas oc community development, leadership, and community service, in additiona to coorindating the county-wide 4-H program. As such I am involved in a teen - youth mentoring program which is in need of additional funding to continue beyond the three year pilot program!
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SIU School of Medicine Springfield Illinois...went to APHA to hear your presentation....should help us with a number of educational community partnership projects..e.g. indigent pharmaceutical program expanding into a community planning project using Shalom Zone method. Thanks
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health educator - Army Center for Health Promotion getting ready to implement PPIP for all military services - bases & installations are communities, so always interested in tools and ideas that work
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I am a Community Health Organizer with the Urban Health Initiative in Detroit Michigan. I have been here for about three months and we have just set some priorities for this area. 1. Health Education 2. Urgent Care 3. Parenting Skills I am searching for resources and information with each specific.
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I'm looking for research examining connection between health status and civic participation (i.e. NOT volunteering, but doing work, paid or not, that shapes one's community). I also seek methods for evaluating skills of civic participation. I work in college health.
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I lead the education area of a small midwestern company servicing a number of healthcare agencies. I provide health education services to our clients.
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Program Analyst with the Alzheimer's Disease Program, California Department of Health Services. Our Program supports research projects for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, as well service to the public through nine diagostic centers throughout California. We are supported by both the General Fund, and a tax check off fund which allows taxpayers to contribute select amounts of the tax monies to the fund. This special fund is used only to fund research projects.
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I'm the Director of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Turning Point National Program Office located at the University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine. This information is very relevant to our initiative and grantees. Great stuff!
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I am a project director for a statewide effort to mobilize citizens to effect change locally and statewide on behalf of children.
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I teach public/community health nursing and epidemiolgy at Villanova University ( College of Nursing) . I attended two of your presentations at the recent APHA. I want to use this' CTB with my graduate students
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I work for the Minnesota Department of Health. I provide training and technical assistance to our local public health partners around community based health promotion.
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Facilitator for a five county health consortium in Mid-MO. We have assessed, identified and prioritized our issues and now are in the problem solving process. We have representation from industry, social, health, education, government, finance, real estate, and hotel industry. We began in March of 1997 and are pleased with our progress. Thank you for additional resources!
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I work for the Department of Health with the Bureau of Special Health Care Needs. I read about this page in our weekly newsletter, the Friday Fax. I am very, very interested in helping my community. 5 years ago I started a nutritional program in Garden City Mo (where I live) for senior citizens. It is only funded by donations. To this day they serve home delivered meals to approximately 50-75 senior citizens in the surrounding area. I want to do more for my rural community and want to find out different resources. What I have heard about CHIME, a program with MO state to help communities, I have liked. I can't wait to find more out. I am currently going to school at Longview Community College and hopefully will recieve a degree in Computer Support Tech. Then I want to get a certificate in programming to help with my job advancement.
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Health Program Representative II with the State of Missouri
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Steve, I was pleased to meet you at the 2001 Serve Kansans Task Force. I look forward to working with you and your group. I have placed the notice of the distance learning course on the MPH bulletin board at the following website:<http://www.kumc.edu/prevent/mph/courses.html> Please let me know if I can be of further help. Thanks, Ken Davis, PT Director of Outreach School of Allied Health, University of Kansas Medical Center 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160-7600 Phone: (913)588-5267 * FAX: (913)588-5254 E-Mail: kdavis@kumc.edu Home Page: http://www.kumc.edu/SAH
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starting community health initiatives. saw you at apha conference eager to network
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Also at: susan@excelgroup.org windows 3.x CD programs supervisor for RBHA serving rural areas in 2 counties. Always seeking ways to improve treatment, scope of services, and involve community. New to AZ so have much to learn about community needs and resources.
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I am a member of the town board for Romeo, Colorado, a volunteer fire fighter, volunteer E.M.T. serving on the Conejos County Ambulance service, Member of the San Luis Valley Local Emergency Planning Comission. I work at the San Luis Valley Youth Center, a center for youth in trouble. Am maried with 3 sons. Am currently devoting most of my time to helping my community become more economicaly self sustaining.
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I managed a grant funded youth development project in Austin Texas.
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I am the administrative director of the Nonprofit Center at the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Community Health Nurse Iowa Heard your presentation at APHA
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I am teaching an internet course in community health nursing and am looking for resources to use to assist our students with community assignments. This site looks very helpful.
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Am working with a team of a health educator and PhD Epidemiologist to initiate programs in chronic disease prevention and injury control (eg. violence prevention, unintentional injury prevention, etc...) We are open to any suggestions, etc. We intend to do a community assessment to find out what is available already and where the gaps are and try to get the community agencies work collaboratively to help resolve some of these problems in a prevention mode. Do you know of resources for a good community assessment tool? Do you know of any communities doing any of this work already? Thank you in advance, Colleen C. Hughes, RN, PhD Assistant Division Director, Community and Clinical Health Services, Washoe County District Health Department, 1001 East Ninth Street, Reno, Nv. 89431 (702)328-2442
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