Community Tool Box

[The Community Tool Box (CTB), http://ctb.ku.edu/, is a free, capacity-building web site available to communities. The Community Tool Box is developed and maintained by the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS (U.S.A.) and other national and global partners. With more than 7,000 pages of information (and growing), it includes step-by-step guides for key skill areas, real-life examples, and supports for problem solving common barriers faced in community work.

In addition to its availability in English, there are a number of CTB tools that are now available in Spanish (http://ctb.ku.edu/es), and the entire CTB will be online in Spanish by late summer 2009. Our ultimate goal is to make the Community Tool Box available in all of the UN languages.

Tool Box materials focus on building the capacity of community, state, national, and global efforts to bring about change and improvement. The Community Tool Box directs users to just-in-time access to capacity-building resources. It does so through several featured gateways to tools.

The vast resources of the CTB are organized by what you may want to do. These include:

1) Learn a Skill (A Table of Contents links you to nearly 300 Sections that provide training in specific skills of community work.) 2) Plan the Work (Toolkits outline tasks, examples, supports for 16 core competencies.) 3) Solve a Problem (Troubleshooting Guides list common challenges in doing this work, questions for analysis, and links to supports.) 4) Explore Best Processes and Practices (Evidence, core tasks, examples, supports, and links to tools help you make the case for and implement promising approaches.) 5) Connect with Others (Learn from others by asking an advisor, using forums, and links to other online resources.)]