KU Center for Community Health and Development

Stephen Fawcett, senior advisor for the KU Center (left), facilitated a panel discussion about the state of public health in Kansas. Panelists, from his left, were: Dr. Robert Moser, executive director of the KU Health System Collaborative; Dr. Bob St. Peter, president and CEO of the Kansas Health Institute; and Dr. Karen DeSalvo, former assistant secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and national coordinator for Health Information Technology. Read more.

Photo of team members Dr. Jomella Watson-Thompson, Dola Gabriel, Nadia Jessop, and Courtney Moore from the Community Youth Development & Prevention Team.

Kansas City Youth Violence Prevention Project featured on KCUR "Up to Date" radio program. Listen here. Pictured here: team members Dr. Jomella Watson-Thompson, Dola Gabriel, Nadia Jessop, and Courtney Moore. Read more.

Photo of Jerry Schultz (back row, third from right) with a large group of people at a workshop in Michigan.

Community Tool Box co-founder Jerry Schultz (back row, third from right) leads a week-long onsite workshop for the Community Development Division of Battle Creek, Michigan. Information on our "train the trainer" services can be found here.

Photo of associate director Vicki Collie-Akers (far right) and other members of the Healthy Communities Study at APHA in Atlanta.

Associate director Vicki Collie-Akers (far right) and other members of the Healthy Communities Study at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting in Atlanta.

We are grateful to help facilitate group listening sessions as part of the Wyandotte County community health assessment, under the leadership of Vicki Collie-Akers and in partnership with the Wyandotte County Health Department.

Image of Steve Fawcett, World Health Collaborating Centre Co-Director, presented in a WHO workshop on “Developing a framework for enhancing community engagement in health systems” in Capetown, South Africa, 20-24 March, 2017.

Steve Fawcett, World Health Collaborating Centre Co-Director, presented in a WHO workshop on “Developing a framework for enhancing community engagement in health systems” in Capetown, South Africa, 20-24 March, 2017.

Image of quote from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report.

Community Tool Box featured in a new report comparing online resources, from the Georgia Health Policy Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read the report.

We offer online documentation and evaluation services. Find out more.

Our mission: supporting community health and development through collaborative research and evaluation, teaching and training, and technical support and capacity building.

Since 2004, the Center for Community Health and Development has been continually designated as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development.

Recent Highlights:

Kansas City Youth Violence Prevention Project Featured on KCUR Up to Date

Listen to the November 20 KCUR Up to Date program featuring Jomella Watson-Thompson as she shares about the exciting new KCK Youth Prevention Project.

Healthy Communities Study Findings Shared at APHA

Associate director Vicki Collie-Akers and other members of the Healthy Communities Study presented findings about what communities are doing across the US to prevent or address childhood obesity at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting in Atlanta.

New Action Planning Guide

The KU Center for Community Health & Development is proud to partner with the KU Research & Training Center on Independent Living to offer a new resource entitled "Your Action Planning Guide for Promoting Full Community Participation Among People with Disabilities: A Resource for Independent Living Centers and Other Community-based Initiatives."

WHO-PAHO Healthy Communities Action Toolkit

Senior advisor Stephen Fawcett recently collaborated with the Pan American Health Organization on developing the WHO-PAHO Healthy Cities Action Toolkit, to provide guidance for taking action in promoting healthy cities, municipalities, and communities. The toolkit provides questions to consider, key activities and examples, and resources to help you with health promotion work in your community. This work is part of the KU Center’s World Health Organization Collaboration Centre. Access the toolkit in both English and Spanish.

Train-the-Trainer Workshop

Spearheaded by the Community Development Division of Battle Creek, MI, Jerry Schultz, one of the founders of the Community Tool Box and co-director of the KU Center for Community Health and Development, offered a week-long onsite "train the trainer" workshop covering core skills for community building.

Live Twitter Q&A with Macro Social Work

Community Tool Box director Christina Holt participated in a live Twitter Q&A with Macro Social Work changemakers on Sept. 28th. "Build Your #MacroSW Toolbox!" generated 655 tweets and over 1.8 million impressions. You can view the archive of the chat here.

Video: "Stoplights Don't Stop Us!"

In “Stoplights Don’t Stop Us!”, people with disabilities discuss how they advocated for change in their community to reduce barriers to participation. They received support from the Center for Community Health and Development and the Resource Center for Independent Living as part of a research project that looked at the effects of capacity-building training on community change and improvement efforts.

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