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SPECIAL OFFER- $45 FOR 2 BOOKS
To celebrate the release of
Outreach Works, we are offering a special savings of $10 when you buy this new health access resource and the classic From The Ground Up
If ordering the Special Offer, do not select the individual books in addition. Your order will include a copy of each book at the reduced rate.

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From The Ground Up: A Workbook on Coalition Building and Community Development, edited by Tom Wolff and Gillian Kaye

$30

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"Looking for a 'toolbox' for building coalitions and developing healthy communities? There is a science to the art of community development, and I've finally found a workbook that brings it all together. From the Ground Up! speaks to the everyday work of coalition coordinators and community organizers!" -- Wendy Krom, Community Organizer and Director, Berkshire Prevention Alliance, Pittsfield, MA
Chapter titles include:
• Barriers to Coalition Building and Strageties to Overcome Them
• Involving and Mobilizing the Grassroots
• Dealing with Conflict in Coalitions
• Community Assessment: A Key Tool for Mobilization and Involvement
• Monitoring and Evaluation of Coalition Activities and Successes
• 200-pages • Jargon-free text • Hands-on worksheets

 
Outreach Works: Strategies for Expanding Health Access in Communities $25 # of copies:
This book explains - Why community is the key to successful enrollment, "how to engage communities in outreach, enrollment, and What it takes to get real results

Over 140 pages of field-tested, jargon-free information
Nuts-and-bolts information needed to create and support effective community-based outreach efforts
Examples of successful models and best practices regarding outreach and enrollment
 

Healthy Communities: America's Best Kept Secret (video)

$25

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Finally, a video that tells the Healthy Communities story! This is a new 30-minute video available from Healthy Communities Massachusetts. Featuring the leaders of the healthy communities movement as well as two live community examples that illustrate both the process and the successful outcomes. This video is a must see for policy makers, community organizers, and those who care about making their community a healthy community. Features Tyler Norris, Judith Kurland, Gillian Kaye and Tom Wolff.

 

Healthy Communities Video
by Trevor Hancock, M.D. with Joan Twiss and Ted Landsmark, with a companion paper by Tom Wolff, Ph.D.

$5

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This set provides an introduction to the healthy communities concept. Dr. Hancock, an internationally known consultant who has worked with the World Health Organization on its Healthy Communities movement provides a basis for understanding how to create a healthy community where you live. Tom Wolff expands on this issue in his companion paper, which focuses on Massachusetts and how healthy communities are being created here.

 

Community Hopes, Community Dreams Video, with John McKnight

$5

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John McKnight, guru of the "community way" from Northwestern University, addresses the 1992 AHEC/Community Partners annual converence. His approach to, and reproach of, human services will make you think. 60 minutes.

 

Coalition Tip Sheets

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Each of these information-filled sheets covers a single coalition building topic. They have appeared as a regular feature of our newsletter; now we have collected them for easy reference. There are 28 tip sheets in the series; new sheets will be developed periodically.

 

Coalition Building: One Path to Empowered Communities, by Tom Wolff, Ph.D.

$5

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Dr. Wolff explores coalitions that lead to healthy communities as their ultimate goal. Case studies and coalition building strageties are packed into 37 pages of highly readable prose. A true bargain.

 

Coalition Building: Is This Really Empowerment?, by Tom Wolff, Ph.D.

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A provacative self-assessment that asks if coalitions are truly committed to empowerment.

 

Building Coalitions That Work: Lessons From the Field, by Tom Wolff, Ph.D. and David Foster, Ph.D., of Springfield College

$5

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A summary of successes and lessons learned from the coalition building work of AHEC/Community Partners

 

Monitoring and Evaluation of Coalitions: Lessons from Eight Communities, by Tom Wolff, Ph.D. and David Foster, Ph.D., in conjunction with The Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas, Stephen Fawcett, Ph.D., Director

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This summary of AHEC/Community Partners coalitions' evaluation data serves as an introduction to the Work Group's unique approach to coalition evaluation.

 

Coalition Typology: Toward a Research-Based Typology of Health and Human Service Coalitions, by Vincent R. Francisco, Ph. D. of The Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas, with Tom Wolff, Ph.D., David Foster, Ph.D. and Stephen Fawcett, Ph.D.

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This study examines the patterns of development and the variety of purposes that evolved with five health and human service coalitions in Massachusetts. The cases studies illustrate an emerging typology of coalitions.

 
     

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Materials from Other Organizations Associated with AHEC projects

These materials must be ordered directly from the organizations below.
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Spirit of the Coalition

by Bill Berkowitz and Tom Wolff

listed by APHA

order from Am.Public Health Assoc.
Concertation locale: les clefs du succes (French translation of From the Ground Up) Reseau Quebecois de Villes et Villages En Sante $15 (CAN) click here to email them
 

  
  

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