Tools & Resources

External Resources

Useful Literature

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• Free Download

  The Sustainability Planning Guide for Health Communities

  Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011

  The Guide is a synthesis of science and practice-based evidence designed to help coalitions, public health professionals, and other community stake holders develop, implement, and evaluate a successful sustainability plan. It provides a process for sustaining policy strategies and related activities, introduce various approaches to sustainability, and demonstrate sustainability planning in action with real-life examples

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  Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being

  Larry Cohen, Vivian Chavez and Sana Chehimi, 2013

  This comprehensive book includes the theory, concepts, and models needed to harness social justice and practice primary prevention of unnecessary illness and injury. Ideal for students and practitioners, this revised second edition combines an overview of advances in the field with effective approaches in the current economic and health care climate.

 

• Useful Websites

• 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.

• Prevention Institute

  Prevention Institute (PI) is a national nonprofit with offices in Oakland, Los Angeles, Houston, and Washington, D.C. PI seeks to build prevention and health equity into key policies and actions at the federal, state, local, and organizational level to ensure that the places where all people live, work, play and learn foster health, safety and wellbeing. PI partners with communities, local government entities, foundations, multiple sectors, and public health agencies to bring cutting-edge research, practice, strategy, and analysis to injury and violence prevention, healthy eating and active living, land use, health systems transformation, and mental health and wellbeing. 

• 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.

• Community Commons

  Community Commons is a site where data, tools, and stories come together to inspire change and improve communities. The site provides public access to thousands of meaningful data layers that allow mapping and reporting capabilities for thoroughly exploring community health.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)                                        The Healthy Living portion of the CDC website contains many useful tools and information on adolescent and school health, healthy weight, overweight and obesity, food safety, immunizations and vaccines, and  smoking and tobacco use. 
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).                                                                                                  SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation and to improve the lives of individuals living with mental and substance use disorders, and their families.
• County Health Rankings and Roadmaps.                                                  The annual Rankings provide a revealing snapshot of how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work, and play. They provide a starting point for change in communities.