Coalition Building

From The Ground Up! A Workbook on Coalition Building and Community Development.
Gillian Kaye and Tom Wolff, editors

Community Tool Box, University of Kansas.
http://ctb.ku.edu/en/

Midwest Academy
www.midwestacademy.com

The Midwest Academy offers on site training and consulting as well as five day training sessions for leaders and staff of citizen and community groups. We specialize in Board and Leadership Development, Strategic Planning and Coalition Building. The Academy is one of the nation's oldest and best known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive social change.

Prevention Institute
www.preventioninstitute.org

Prevention Institute is a non-profit national center dedicated to
improving community health and well-being by building momentum for
effective primary prevention.

Models of Community Health Planning and Development

Healthy People 2010 Toolkit: A Field Guide to Health Planning. Public Health Foundation. http://www.healthypeople.gov/state/toolkit/default.htm

Physical Activity

Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH)
Cardiovascular Health, Nutrition and Physical Activity Section
517-335-8374

MDCH Clearinghouse - Healthy Lifestyles
http://hpclearinghouse.org/

The MDCH Clearinghouse has numerous health promotion materials that can be ordered online. These materials include brochures, posters, and other educational and promotional items.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/index.htm

This site includes numerous physical activity facts sheets and reports, including research and data, media, programs, and publication resources.

Nutrition

Michigan Department of Community Health
Cardiovascular Health, Nutrition and Physical Activity Section
517-335-8374

MDCH Clearinghouse - Healthy Lifestyles
http://hpclearinghouse.org/

The MDCH Clearinghouse has numerous health promotion materials that can be ordered online. These materials include brochures, posters, and other educational and promotional items.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition.htm/

This site includes numerous nutrition facts sheets and reports, including research and data, media, programs, and publication resources.

Eat 5 to 9 A Day
http://5aday.gov/

This site includes information on nutritional guidelines, educational materials and other useful resources.

Tobacco

Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH)
Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Control, Tobacco Section
517-335-8376
www.michigan.gov/tobacco/

The Tobacco Section staff can provide communities with tobacco-related assistance and resources in community assessment, program and policy implementation, enforcement and evaluation. The program can also provide communities with a list of existing community tobacco reduction coalitions.

MDCH Clean Indoor Air Regulation Toolkit
www.tcsg.org/sfelp/home.htm- Click on "Clean Indoor Air Regulation Toolkit"

This toolkit is to assist communities in assessing community readiness to pass a smoke-free work site and public places regulation or ordinance, and with the step-by-step planning and implementation process, including assessment and planning of local tobacco cessation services.

MDCH Clearinghouse - Tobacco Section
1-800-353-8227
www.hpclearinghouse.org/tobaco/intobacco.html

The MDCH Clearinghouse has numerous free tobacco-related materials that can be ordered online. These materials include quit kits, tobacco-free schools planning guides, brochures on tobacco-related illness, such as asthma and secondhand smoke, smoking around children, posters, and other educational and promotional items.

"I Can Quit" Michigan Cessation Hotline
1-800-480-7848

This quit line offers free and personalized tobacco cessation counseling to all Michigan residents and a free two month supply of nicotine replacement therapy for those who qualify. 

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
510-841-3032
www.no-smoke.org

American Cancer Society
1-800-ACS-2345
www.cancer.org

The American Cancer Society (ACS) provides advocacy, research, education, and service to eliminate cancer, including tobacco-related cancers. This agency organizes the Great American Smokout each November.

A resource available from ACS is Communities of Excellence in Tobacco Control - A Community Planning Guide. Contact ACS for more information about how you can use this guide.

American Heart Association
1-800-AHA-USA1
http://www.americanheart.org/

The American Heart Association (AHA) provides advocacy, research, education, and other resources to reduce tobacco use and other risk factors for heart disease.

American Lung Association
1-800-Lung-USA
www.lungusa.org

The American Lung Association (ALA) provides advocacy, cessation programming and training for youth and adults, school- and community-based prevention programming, research, and services to fight lung disease, including tobacco-related lung diseases, such as lung cancer, emphysema, and chronic lower respiratory diseases.

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
202.296.5469
www.tobaccofreekids.org

This site offers recent tobacco news, advocacy activities, media advocacy information, including sample press releases and letters to the editor, fact sheets, research reports, and data.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Office on Smoking and Health
1-800-CDC-1311
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash

This site includes numerous tobacco-related facts sheets and reports, including the Surgeon General's reports, research and data, quit smoking information, and media, program, and publication resources.

CDC Online Toolkit - Taking Action Against Secondhand Smoke
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/ETS_Toolkit/index.htm

This toolkit provides the tools needed for people with various levels of advocacy experience to take action to reduce secondhand smoke in their community.

Smoke-free Environments Law Project
734-665-1126
www.tcsg.org/sfelp/home.htm

The Smoke-Free Environments Law Project (SFELP) is a statewide project which provides information, consultation and advice for businesses, local units of government, and individuals in Michigan on policies and practices to protect employees and the general public from the harmful effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and to address the legal requirements and liability issues related to ETS.

Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium
www.ttac.org

The Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting community, state, and national organizations in building and growing highly effective tobacco control programs. The organization offers several resources for coalitions and communities working in tobacco control.

Additional Links

MI Health Tools
www.mihealthtools.org

This site includes the following online community assessments: Healthy Communities Checklist (HCC), Nutrition Environment Assessment Tool (NEAT), Physical Activity Checklist (PAC), and Smoke-Free Communities Assessment Tool (SFCAT).

MDCH-Physical Health and Prevention Page
http://michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2940_2955---,00.html

MI Steps Up Campaign Materials
MDCH Clearinghouse
1-800-353-8227
www.hpclearinghouse.org/hlifestyl/inhlifestyl.html

This site includes free Michigan Steps Up promotional items that can be ordered online, such as posters, postcards, and brochures and some additional educational materials on nutrition and physical activity.