Web Resources for Community Research and Action

Community Psychology Links

Hosted by the SocialPsychology Network. An extensive listof linksrelated to community psychology, including community building, community health, action, teaching, service learning, and more.

The Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit

The Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit is an online resource aiming to provide health professional faculty with a set of tools to carefully plan and document their community-engaged scholarship and produce strong portfolios for promotion and tenure. The toolkit offers guidance, resources, and successful examples of portfolio materials from faculty that have been promoted based on their community-engaged scholarship. The toolkit is available at:www.communityengagedscholarship.info. For more information, contact Jen Kauper-Brown at 206-543-7954 or jenbr@u.washington.edu

Community Tool box

TheTool Box provides over 6,000 pages of practical informationto support your work in promoting community health and development.This web site is created and maintained by the Work Group onHealth Promotion and Community Development at the Universityof Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas (U.S.A). Developed in collaborationwith AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts, thesite has been on line since 1995, and it continues to growon a weekly basis.

Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory ResearchPartnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum

As interest in community-based participatory research (CBPR)grows, there is a growing need and demand for educational resources that help build the knowledge and skills needed to developand sustain effective CBPR partnerships. This evidence-basedcurriculum is intended as a tool for community-institutionalpartnerships that are using or planning to use a CBPR approachto improving health. It can be used by partnerships that arejust forming as well as mature partnerships.

SenseofCommunity.com

SenseofCommunity.com is an internationalmeeting place for people with a scientific or professionalinterest in the study or application of a sense of community.Our goal is to bring together the myriad of international scholarsand practitioners to advance the work on sense of communitythat has been gaining growing interest and development overthe past 50 years, if not longer.We hope to encourage sharingand learning to advance what we know about a sense of communityand how it can be used for progressive change.