The Community Tool Box Bringing Solutions to Light
Work Group for
Community Health and
The Community Tool
Box is a global resource for free information on essential skills for building
healthy communities.
Promoting community health and development by connecting
people, ideas and resources
English:
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Spanish:
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Comunitarias: Recursos prácticos para su trabajo
Here there are the
list of 6 Chapters through which you can reach nearly 300 different
sections providing practical, step-by-step guidance in community-building
skills. Other tools can be located from the purple tabs at the top of this
page.
Part A. Models for Promoting
Community Health and Development: Gateways to the Tools (Chapters 1 - 2)
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Chapter 1. Our Model for Community Change and
Improvement
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Chapter 2. Other Models for Promoting Community Health
and Development
Contains an overview
of the CTB (Chapter 1, Section 1) and frameworks for guiding, supporting and
evaluating the works of community and system change.
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Chapter 3. Assessing Community Needs and Resources
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Chapter 4. Getting Issues on the Public Agenda
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Chapter 5. Choosing Strategies to Promote Community
Health and Development
Contains information
about how to assess community needs and resources (e.g. conducting listening
sessions, analyzing problems) how to get issues on the public agenda (e.g.,
gaining public support), and how to choose broad strategies to promote
community health and development (e.g., building coalitions).
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Chapter 6. Promoting Interest in Community Issues
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Chapter 7. Encouraging Involvement in Community Work
Contains information
about how to promote interest in an issue (e.g., persuasion, press releases,
and newsletters) and how to encourage involvement (e.g., among diverse groups).
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Chapter 8. Developing a Strategic Plan
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Chapter 9. Developing an Organizational Structure for
the Initiative
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Chapter 10. Hiring and Training Key Staff of Community
Organizations
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Chapter 11. Recruiting and Training Volunteers
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Chapter 12. Providing Training and Technical Assistance
Contains
information about developing a strategic plan (e.g., vision, mission, action
plan) and organizational structure (e.g., bylaws, board of directors) and
hiring and training staff, recruiting and training volunteers, and providing
technical assistance.
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Chapter 13. Orienting Ideas in Leadership
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Chapter 14. Core Functions in Leadership
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Chapter 15. Becoming an Effective Manager
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Chapter 16. Group Facilitation and Problem-Solving
Contains
information about the core functions of leadership (e.g., building
relationships, influencing people), management (e.g., providing supervision and
support), and group facilitation (e.g., leading meetings).\
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Chapter 17. Analyzing Community Problems and Solutions
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Chapter 18. Deciding Where to Start
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Chapter 19. Choosing and Adapting Community
Interventions
Contains information
about analyzing community problems (e.g. thinking critically), designing an
intervention (e.g. identifying those who can benefit and help), and choosing
and adapting interventions for different cultures and communities.
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Chapter 20. Providing Information and Enhancing Skills
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Chapter 21. Enhancing Support, Incentives, and
Resources
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Chapter 22. Youth Mentoring Programs
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Chapter 23. Modifying Access, Barriers, and
Opportunties
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Chapter 24. Improving Services
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Chapter 25. Changing Policies
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Chapter 26. Changing the Physical and Social
Environment
Contains
information on illustrative interventions using the strategies of providing
information and enhancing skills, enhancing support and resources, youth
mentoring, modifying access and barriers, improving services, changing
policies, and changing the physical and social environment.
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Chapter 27. Cultural Competence in a Multicultural
World
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Chapter 28. Spirituality and Social Action (this
chapter is under construction)
Contains information
on building cultural competence in a multicultural world, spirituality and
community action, and the arts and community building.
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Chapter 30. Principles of Advocacy
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Chapter 31. Conducting Advocacy Research
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Chapter 32. Providing Encouragement and Education
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Chapter 33. Conducting a Direct Action Campaign
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Chapter 35. Responding to Counterattacks
Contains information
on principles of advocacy (e.g., recognizing allies and opponents), conducting
advocacy research, providing encouragement and education, conducting a direct
action campaign (e.g., personal testimony letters), media advocacy, and
responding to opposition.
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Chapter 36. Introduction to Evaluation
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Chapter 37. Operations in Evaluating Community
Interventions
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Chapter 38. Methods for Evaluating Comprehensive
Community Initiatives
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Chapter 39. Using Evaluation to Understand and Improve
the Initiative
Contains
information on developing a plan for evaluation, methods for evaluation, and
using evaluation to understand and improve the initiative.
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Chapter 40. Maintaining Quality Performance
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Chapter 41. Rewarding Accomplishments
Contains information
on achieving and maintaining quality performance, obtaining and using feedback
from clients, arranging celebrations, providing incentives to staff and
volunteers, holding awards ceremonies, and honoring colleagues and community
champions.
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Chapter 42. Getting Grants and Financial Resources
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Chapter 43. Managing Finances
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Chapter 44. Investing in Community Resources
Contains information
on writing a grant application, planning for financial sustainability,
preparing an annual budget, accounting basics, contracting for service and
establishing a micro-grants program for your community.
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Chapter 45. Social Marketing of Successful Components
of the Initiative
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Chapter 46. Planning for Long-Term
Institutionalization
Contains information
on conducting a social marketing effort (e.g., promoting awareness, interest
and behavior change), and planning for the long-term sustainability of the
effort (e.g., becoming a line item in an existing budget).
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