Inaugural Issue - Winter '04

• Sustainability Myths
• Sustainability Worksheet
• Resources: What's new at the Community Tool Box?
• Tom Wolff & Associates Offer New Services

 

 

Spring '04 Issue

• Whats New
• Four Approaches to Sustainability
• News
• Resources

FALL '04 Issue

• Collaborative Solutions - Six Key Components
• Tom Wolff & Associates - What is new?
• Resources

 

WINTER '05 Issue

• Collaborative Solutions – Engaging the Community
• Agency-Based and Community-Based Approaches
• Four approaches that work
• Resources

• Special Issue: Hurricane Katrina and Community Building
• Community Building Responses in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
• One model community building model to apply – Healthy Communities
• What others are saying
• Resources
  
  

• Practice democracy, promote active citizenship and empowerment
          Overview
          The Ladder of Participation
          How do we encourage democratic participation?
          Collaborative leadership
          Microdemocracy
          A Community Story
• Resources
• Youth on Board

FALL '06 ISSUE

Taking Action: Addressing issues of social change and power based on a common vision.

• Taking Action: Overview
• Creating a common vision
• Community action to create community change
• Changes in programs, policies and practices
• Key factors in creating community change
• Community Story – Lower Outer Cape Community Coalition
• References
• Tom Wolff delivers invited address to the American Psychological Association in New Orleans August 2006

Winter '07 issue

Addressing Issues of Social Change and Power.

• Overview
• Collaborative empowerment versus collaborative betterment
• How do we address issues of social change in our collaborative efforts 
• Advocacy
• Organizing and Social Action Techniques
• Getting involved in the political process
• Power based versus relationship based social change
• Resources and references
• Tom Wolff & Associates Recent Clients 2004-2006

summer '07 issue

Assessing Our Progress & Celebrating Our Success

• Why does documentation and evaluation matter in collaborative solutions?
• What kinds of questions can an evaluation help answer?
• Community-based participatory evaluation
• A framework for evaluation of coalitions
• Community Story:  a neighborhood organization
• Levels of coalition assessment - tool
• Community Story: national organization with multiple sites
• Coalition Member Assessment - tool  
• Community Story: a small non-profit and two communities
• Tools and Resources

Highlights from Tom Wolff & Associates

Spring '08 issue

Spirituality and Social Change : Appreciation, acceptance, compassion and interdependence in our community work

• Our helping systems are in trouble
  
• Spiritual principles can guide us in the work we do.
  
• Six limiting factors in our helping system
  • We have overemphasized the deficits in our communities
  • Application of appreciation as a spiritual principle
  • We have lost social change and social justice as our goal.
  • Application of interdependence and interconnection as spiritual principles
    

What is new at Tom Wolff & Associates:

• New Frontiers – Community Directories on the Web Using New Technology
  
• New chapter in book just out
  
• Workshop in Lisbon Portugal this summer

FALL '09 ISSUE

• The Power of Collaborative Solutions by Tom Wolff—to be published February 2010
  
• A Focus on the Nitty Gritty of Coalition-Building – Communication
  
  • Agendas and Meeting Minutes
    
  • Newsletters
    
  • Web Sites
    
• What’s new at Tom Wolff & Associates?
  
  • International Work
    
  • The Center for Health Equity and Social Justice
    
  • The new Global eJournal of Community Psychology Practice
    
• New Resources

Summer 2010 issue

In this issue: Health Equity and Social Justice

• The Center for Health Equity and Social Justice at the
              Boston Public Health Commission
  
• Six key concepts
  
• Community story: The Jamaica Plain Youth Health Equity Collaborative
  
• Principles for Collaborative Solutions and Health Equity
  
• What is new at Tom Wolff & Associates

Spring 2011 Issue

Thriving and Surviving Devastating Funding Cuts: Collaboration and Community Building as the Answer - Part One of Survival Tips

• The present crisis
• Time for new approaches: Collaboration, community building and systems change.
• Four specific strategies
  • Focus on sustaining what you have developed
  • Engage the people in the community and build their support for your efforts
• What is new at TW & Associates
  • Follow Tom Wolff & Associates on Facebook
  • Subscribe to the Tom Wolff & Associates blog

Spring 2012 issue

• Social Determinants of Health and Mental Health: Why Not?
  • If we all embraced a SDOH perspective on mental health, what would that look like?
• What is new at Tom Wolff & Associates
  • The Power of Collaborative Solutions
    
  • New clients
• Quote of the month:”life ia a fundamentally cooperative, locally rooted, self-organizing enterprise in which each individual organism is continually balancing individual and group interests”

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