Tools & Resources

External Resources

Useful Literature

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  Impact and Value: Telling Your Program's Story

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007

  This workbook provides concrete examples of how to use success stories to sell your programs. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Oral Health; Atlanta, Georgia.

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  From the Ground Up: A Workbook on Coalition Building and Community Development

  Gillian Kaye & Tom Wolff, 1995

  This helpful workbook is a complete toolbox for effective coalition building and community development. It shares field ideas, frameworks and exercises that have evolved from the authors' work in communities across the country.

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  The Spirit of the Coalition

  Bill Berkowitz, 2000

  This lively and highly accessible book is filled with real world illustrations and a wealth of practical tools. (259 pages, paperback).

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  Free Download

  CDC's Community Health Promotion Handbook & Action Guides (Free Download)

  CDC and the Partnership for Prevention, 2008

  An evidence-based tool that bridges the gap between research and practice. Five selected recommendations from the Task Force on Community Preventive Services' The Guide to Community Preventive Services have been translated into action guides that provide "how to" guidance to implement effective community-level strategies. The Handbook's five action guides cover the following topics: Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME); Places for Physical Activity; School-Based Physical Education; Social Support for Physical Activity; and Tobacco-Use Treatment.  Download free at www.prevent.org/actionguides.

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  Free Download

  CADCA: Strengthening Partnerships: Comprehensive Guide to Building and Sustaining Coalitions (Free Download)

  CADCA, 2005

  Primers on Assessment, Capacity, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation,Cultural Competence, Sustaining, Core Measures, and Beyond the Basics Guides on Telling Your Coalition Story and Environmental Prevention Strategies.

Useful Websites

• CDC's Healthy Communities

  CDC's Healthy Communities Program is engaging communities and mobilizing national networks to focus on chronic disease prevention. Communities are working to change the places and organizations that touch people's lives every day—schools, work sites, health care sites, and other community settings—to turn the tide on the national epidemic of chronic diseases.

• CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America)

  National Coalition Institute, created by an act of Congress, helps build more effective community anti-drug coalitions through training, technical assistance and educational materials.

• Partnership For Prevention

  A professional membership organization that seeks to increase the priority on prevention in health-related policy and in the U.S. health care system by 1) Analyzing leading edge scientific research to identify effective polices and practices; 2) Convening diverse healthcare stakeholders and facilitating dialogue among them; and 3) Educating decision-makers in every sector about innovative prevention policies and practices and advocating for their adoption. The site offers many prevention-related tools for coalitions on its Reports & Resources page.

• Prevention Institute

  Larry Cohen's site contains great material on prevention and coalition building in public health.

• The Community Toolbox

  Providing over 6,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics, the Community Tool Box is a resource to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources, including several Prevention Institute tools.

• CDC Partners Portal

  The Partners Portal of CDC's Partnerships and Strategic Alliances program provides products, guidance, and support for partnerships and alliances to help achieve CDC's health protection goals. Fact sheets, events and health promotion campaign information are a click away. Its activities and resources are organized around five sectors: Business, Education, Faith-based and Community, Healthcare and Public Health Systems.