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The Community Tool Box is the world's largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and improvement, and is growing as a global resource for this work.

To choose your pathway into the CTB, just click on one of the purple tabs at the top of the page or to the right under "What do you want to do today?"

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Welcome to the Community Tool Box

What do you want to do today?

Learn More about Using the CTB

Read a brief description about how to use the CTB and find a related framework for guiding your community work.

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Practical step-by-step guidance in specific community-building skills is available in over 300 sections.

Do the Work

Toolkits outline key tasks, examples, and support for 16 core competencies or skill areas.

Solve a Problem

Troubleshooting guides identify common challenges in doing this work, reflection questions, and links to supports.

Use Promising Approaches

Support for implementing key processes to promote change and improvement, and links to databases for best practices.

Connect with Others

Learn from others by asking a question of an advisor and linking to other online resources.

Search the CTB

Look for a specific topic within the CTB by typing a keyword or phrase into the orange box at the top right-hand side of the page and clicking "Go."

 

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Help Extend Global Reach

People around the world are volunteering to translate and culturally adapt the CTB into Spanish and other priority languages such as Arabic, French, and Portuguese. We are working to make capacity-buildling tools more globally accessible to users. Please email toolbox@ku.edu or call US (785) 864-0533 if you are interested in collaborating.

What Users Are Saying

“I have found the [CTB] articles and how-to guides wonderful in my attempt to pull a community coalition together. I am a nurse, I have never done such work, but this website makes it possible for me to feel like it is possible to surmount the difficulties of placing three hospitals, two hospices, two family health centers and representatives from several other agencies at the same table, rise above territorial and political issues and find a common path to our shared goal of improving the care we give to the dying. I thank you for all your efforts.”

-Michael Wilson; Boston, Massachusetts RN who has worked for 13 years in a hospital burn intensive care unit and for three years as a hospice visiting nurse. Also a board member of the Massachusetts Coalition for Compassionate Care and a founding member of a community coalition called Palliative Care Coalition.