Work Group for Community Health and Development
University of Kansas
– 2011
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
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)
Contains an overview of the CTB (Chapter 1, Section 1)
and frameworks for guiding, supporting and evaluating the works of community
and system change.
Part B. Community
Assessment, Agenda Setting, and Choice of Broad Strategies (Chapters 3 - 5)
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).
Part C. Promoting
Interest and Participation in Initiatives (Chapters 6 - 7)
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).
Part D. Developing
a Strategic Plan, Organizational Structure, and Training System(Chapters 8 -
12)
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.
Part E. Leadership,
Management, and Group Facilitation (Chapters 13 - 16)
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).\
Part F. Analyzing
Community Problems and Designing and Adapting Community Interventions (Chapters
17 - 19)
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.
Part G.
Implementing Promising Community Interventions (Chapters 20 - 26)
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.
Part H. Cultural
Competence, Spirituality, and the Arts and Community Building
(Chapters 27 - 29)
Contains information on building cultural competence in
a multicultural world, spirituality and community action, and the arts and
community building.
Part I. Organizing for
Effective Advocacy (Chapters 30 - 35)
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.
Part J. Evaluating
Community Programs and Initiatives (Chapters 36 - 39)
Contains information on
developing a plan for evaluation, methods for evaluation, and using evaluation
to understand and improve the initiative.
Part K. Maintaining
Quality and Rewarding Accomplishments (Chapters 40 - 41)
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.
Part L. Generating,
Managing and Sustaining Financial Resources (Chapters 42 - 44)
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.
Part M. Social
Marketing and Institutionalization of the Initiative (Chapters 45 - 46)
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).
