Community Tool Box

The Community Tool Box is a valuable resource for information on essential skills for building healthy communities, including coalition development, and developing, evaluating, and sustaining initiatives to solve a variety of health problems. It offers more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and improvement. The core of the Tool Box is the "how-to tools" which use simple language to explain the steps necessary to create and evaluate prevention programs. The site also includes sections on strategic planning, community assessment, advocacy, and grant writing. Each section includes a description of the task, advantages of doing it, step-by-step guidelines, examples, checklists of points to review, and training materials.