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Surgeon General’s Report on Facing Addiction in America - A call for community action
According to the recently released, Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs and Health, more than twenty million Americans are addicted to illegal drugs and alcohol and only 10 percent are receiving treatment. A significant public health threat facing communities large and small throughout the nation, the report provides tools for medical...
Sustainability Planning Guide for Healthy Communities
This tool (from CDC's Healthy Communities program) helps public and community health professionals develop a sustainability plan and learn key sustainability approaches. It can be found in Act on What’s Important under ...
Sustaining the Work or Initiative
This tool (from the Community Tool Box) can help you decide whether and how to sustain your work.
Tackling Substance Misuse in Florence County, Wis.
In Florence County, local leaders are focusing their strategy and efforts on preventing substance misuse among young people.
Take Action Cycle
Communities can work together to improve health by following the steps around the Take Action Cycle.
Taking Action! Milwaukee’s Efforts to Reduce Teen Birth Rates
The County Health Rankings model includes teen birth rates because they are so strongly tied to lower levels of educational attainment and cyclical poverty—two factors we know negatively impact health.
The city of Milwaukee once had the second highest percentage of teen births in the nation, however innovative work by the United Way of Greater Milwaukee seeks to change...
Tarrant County Commissioner Roy Charles Brooks Discusses Community Health Improvement
On the heels of the National Association of Counties (NACo) Annual Conference, we were able to discuss improving community health with Roy Charles Brooks, Tarrant County Commissioner and chairman of NACo’s Healthy Counties Initiative.
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Team Blueprint
This tool (from Center for Creative Leadership) clarifies your partnership’s goals, project scope, meeting processes, and how you will work together; it also identifies roles and responsibilities.
Tearless Logic Models
This tool (from the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice) takes the traditional logic model approach and translates it into a less daunting process that breaks the logic model process down into a series of manageable, jargon-free questions. Justin Greenleaf, one of the authors of this article, has also created a short presentation...
Tearless Logic Models Presentation
This tool (from Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice) is a short presentation of the tearless logic model.