Measuring Success Consortium July 17th, 2015
Case Study
Exploring the COMMUNITY TOOL BOX
A demonstration of the CTB’s resources – University of Kansas
Examples of possible ways to apply & evaluate the success of this
demonstration
Brenda Souders Loyd, M.S.
Executive Director/COO
United Methodist Home for Children Residential Care, Inc.
5120 Simpson Ferry Road
Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
Satoko Marquet, MSW, MPH, PhD(c)
Family Design Resources, Inc.
471 JPL Wick Drive
Harrisburg, PA 17111
Esprene Liddell- Quintyn, Graduate Assistant
School of Behavioral Sciences and Education
Penn State Harrisburg
777 West Harrisburg Pike
Olmsted Building W-311
Our purpose today
Gain knowledge about the University of Kansas’
Community Tool Box website and resources.
We will…
• Locate and access the Univ of Kansas’ CBT
website and its contents (an overview).
• Identify how to access the following CBT
Recruiting and Training Volunteers topics:
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Developing a Plan for Involving Volunteers
Recruiting Volunteers
Developing Volunteer Orientation Programs
Developing Training Programs for Volunteers
Community Tool Box
www.ctb.ku.edu
Community Tool Box
Tools to change our world
Free on-line resource for those people working
to build healthier communities and bring
about social change.
Community Tool Box
Resources for:
assessment
planning
intervention
evaluation
advocacy
Community Tool Box
Vision
People are better prepared to work together to
change conditions that affect their lives.
Mission
To promote community health and development
by connecting people, ideas, and resources.
Community Tool Box
CTB is a public service of the Work Group for
Community Health and Development at the
University of Kansas.
Established in 1994 and continuously updated.
Available in English, Spanish, and Arabic.
Over 300 educational modules, free tools, and
thousands of pages of tips.
Community Tool Box
Learn A Skill > how-to information
Help Taking Action > guidance for your work
Connect > link with others
About > information about the tool box
Services > connecting collective impact
Learn A Skill
Table of Contents
46 chapters of information related to
community-building skills
Includes curriculum guides, power point
presentations, toolkits (quick start on core
competencies in community work)
Search
Search feature is located in the right hand
corner of each page.
Helps to find specific information using key
words.
Help Taking Action
Troubleshooting Guide – identifies common
problems faced by people doing community
work.
Getting Started – simple model for taking action.
Databases of Best Practices – for community
health and development.
Help Taking Action
Online Courses – to learn about health
assessment and community health
improvement planning.
Advisor – obtain guidance from experienced
community members and experts related to
your community work.
Demonstration of the Toolbox
Chapter 11: Recruiting and Training
Volunteers
Section 1: Developing a Plan for Involving
Volunteers
Section 2: Recruiting Volunteers
Section 3: Developing Volunteer Orientation
Programs
Section 4: Developing Training Programs for
Volunteers
Community Tool Box
www.ctb.ku.edu
Learn a skill>Table of Contents>
Chapter 11 Recruiting and Training Volunteers
Section 4 Developing Training Programs for
Volunteers
Section 4 Power Point Presentation
Developing Training Programs for
Volunteers Toolkit
Icebreaker Activity to use with volunteers during
first training session.
Lesson plan format to develop teaching
activities with volunteers.
Volunteer evaluation form.
Community Tool Box
Work Group for Community Health
Development
University of Kansas
www.ctb.ku.edu
Hmm…how might this be used? Application
Imagine that your organization is tasked with developing a training program for
volunteers.
First, decide what you want the volunteers to gain during the training program
(e.g. how to care for the elderly.)
From this, you can create an objective for the training program. At the end of
the volunteer program you will administer an evaluation form to assess how
much/ what the volunteers have learned.
Training areas may include: Policy Knowledge or Skills Application, etc. These
are Evaluation areas too!
Using a Likert scale you can measure your indicators of your training outcomes.
NEXT: create graphs that illustrate the program's success.
Let’s evaluate what we did – EXAMPLE
How would you rate your knowledge level before and
after the presentation?
Our stated outcome: Gain knowledge about the University of
Kansas’ Community Tool Box website and resources.
Our scale to measure your knowledge level:
• 1=no knowledge
• 2=low level of knowledge
• 3=medium level of knowledge
• 4=high level of knowledge
See HANDOUT questionnaire…YOUR COMMENTS/IDEAS
welcomed!