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Community Tool Box
Promoting community health and development through collaborative research, teaching, and service.

 Some KU Work Group Highlights
  • The KU Work Group's Community Tool Box (CTB) is the world's largest resource (over 7,000 pages of content) for building capacity for community health and development.
  • Since 1975, the KU Work Group has worked with partners to address two big questions: How do people work together to bring about change in communities? And, under what conditions are these changes associated with improvement in community health and development?
  • In 2004, our center was officially designated as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas.
  • In August of 2007 the Work Group received an NIH Exploratory/Development Grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a project titled Testing the Community Change Model with Substance Abuse Coalitions.

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The World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas

The mission of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre at KU is to promote community health and development through capacity building, participatory research, and co-learning in a global community.

The WHO Centre at the University of Kansas has two primary objectives:

1. Build capacity for community health and development globally, including through translation/ cultural adaptation of the Internet-based Community Tool Box (CTB).

2. Use participatory research methods to extend the evidence base for community efforts to promote health and development. This work is being accomplished in collaboration with colleagues at WHO (World Health Organization), PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) and other WHO Regional Offices, and partners in participating communities and collaborating centres globally.

 KU Work Group's Community Tool Box




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 find out more about other KU Work Group Services, click here.

 Ask an Advisor
Ask an Advisor is a resource that provides brief, personalized responses to questions users like you can pose about community work. Do you have questions about planning, assessment, participation, leadership, advocacy, or evaluation? Pose them here, and we'll answer anything related to community work that we can address with our resources.

 Contact Information
Work Group for Community Health and Development
1000 Sunnyside Avenue, 4082 Dole Center
phone: (785) 864-0533 fax: (785) 864-5281
Lawrence,  KS   66045-7555
kuworkgroup@ku.edu