Community Tool Box Online Training

“The Community Tool Box is easily the most comprehensive, rigorous, and user-friendly ‘field manual’ for anyone involved in social change – including community leaders and organizers, scholars, policymakers, philanthropists, and others – to understand the how, what, when, and where of community transformation. CTB brings the state of the science of community health and development to the many sectors needed to create positive change. Soup-to-nuts, CTB offers a blueprint for anyone seeking to harness community strengths and resources of resiliency to build healthier spaces and places.”

– Brian Smedley, National Collaborative for Health Equity

“I am a hands-on learner and this course was awesome. Thank you.”

– Training participant

“I will use everything I learned from this session. Thank you.”

– Training participant

This training will help you grow your skills for community engagement, including:

• Creating and maintaining coalitions and partnerships
• Assessing community needs and resources
• Analyzing community problems and goals
• Strategic and action planning
• Building effective leadership

In this practical, skills-based (and self-paced) course, you will learn to:

• Identify community stakeholders
• Diagnose the health of your coalition
• Conduct SWOT and root cause analyses
• Plan community assessment methods
• Draft a strategic and action plan
• And much more!