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Community Collaboration – “Process” (e.g., collaborative decision-making, meeting facilitation, etc.)

Environmental Defense Fund

 

The Environmental Sustainability Kit focuses on environmental and pollution prevention aspects of sustainability.  Components include forging a multi-stakeholder process and developing strategy to implement a project.

University of Kansas (KU), Work Group for Community Health and Development

Community Toolbox

The Community Toolbox provides information on assessing community needs, coalition building, strategic planning, and group facilitation. 

National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)

Community Assessment and Planning

NACCHO created Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP).  This tool provides a strategic approach to community health improvement through community-wide and community-driven strategic planning, with a focus on the 10 Essential Public Health Services.

Northwestern University, Institute for Policy Research

The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD)

ABCD’s Web site offers useful information on assessing community capacity and mobilizing local assets.  Resources include reports and workbooks.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation (OSRTI)

A Web-based Superfund Community Involvement Toolkit provides a guide for community involvement in EPA’s Superfund process.  Although intended for EPA staff, this toolkit includes useful information on communication strategies, conflict resolution, and dealing with the media.

Minnesota Department of Health

Community Engagement Program

The Community Engagement Program’s Web site offers resources for a range of engagement activities, such as facilitating meetings, conducting focus groups, developing mission statements, and evaluating coalition success.  Multicultural community resources are also highlighted.

Healthy People

Healthy People 2010

The Healthy People Toolkit provides a step-by-step guide, technical tools, and resources to help local governments develop and promote public health planning.  It includes information on setting community priorities, establishing measures and indicators, and communicating goals.

Virginia Tech, College of Architecture and Urban Studies

Urban Affairs & Planning Program

The Check Your Success: A Community Guide to Developing Indicators offers on-line access to the use of indicators for evaluation.  This guide can help communities pick environmental, social, organizational, and economic indicators that will best evaluate the overall goals.  Includes an Appendix with helpful worksheets.

Center for Collaborative Planning (CCP)

 

CCP promotes health and social justice by providing training and technical assistance in leadership development, working collaboratively, and community assessment and strategic planning.  CCP’s Web site offers information about their services and an expansive resource library. 

United Way of America

Outcome Measurement Resource Network

The Outcome Measurement Resource Network’s Web site offers information, reports, and workbooks on how community groups can adopt outcome measurement, which can help provide organizational direction, identify needs, and improve programs.  They have a wealth of information in the resource library.

The Praxis Project

 

The Praxis Project’s Information Resource Center contains helpful tools and reports on topics like budgets and finances, coalition building, community organizing, and media training.

University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine

Northwest Center for Public Health Practice (NWCPHP)

The NWCPHP has online learning modules on a variety of topics, such as Program Evaluation in Environmental Health and Logic Models and Outcome Measurement.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Community Health and Program Services (CHAPS)

Chapter 3 of Promoting Health Equity: A Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health, a resource to encourage the development of new and the expansion of existing initiatives and partnerships to address the social determinants of health, provides guidelines to develop a “social determinants of health” inequities initiative within a community.  It includes sections on: developing a shared vision; building community capacity; developing and implementing an action plan; and assessing your initiative’s progress.

 

 

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