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Community Tool Box- Assessing Community Needs and Resources
This chapter has 19 sections, all weblinks to descriptions and tools: identifying local needs and resources, collecting information through forums, focus groups, surveys, identifying assets and resources, SWOTs, dialogues and GIS; and creating report cards.

University of Waterloo - The Healthy Communities Research Network
The Healthy Communities Research Network is a collaborative web of scholars dedicated to the study, critique, and evaluation of civic, socio-cultural, and environmental dimensions of health and well-being within community life. Health, in this context, is defined broadly to encompass a full range of quality of life issues. Community is addressed, not merely geographically, but also in terms of communities that draw together people who share common interests. The aim of the network is to produce socially relevant findings and recommendations that will advance social science, guide policy, strengthen local communities, & improve quality of life.

Your Community, Your Health: Findings from the Canadian Community Health Survey
Results from the Canadian Community Health Survey, whose objective is to produce timely data for more than 120 health regions across Canada. Includes links to data tables on a wide range of topics, including non-medical determinants of health.

Participatory Avenues, the Gateway to Community Mapping, P3DM and PPGIS
Promotes the diffusion of Participatory 3D Modeling (P3DM) as a best practice for merging people's knowledge and traditional spatial information and acts as focal point for sharing information and technical progress on community-based mapping. Primarily used in developing countries.

Community Tool Box - Home Page
Overall a great resource for any community building and development initiative. It includes a comprehensive tool kit from the University of Kansas (U.S.A.) See Chapter 2 for various models of promoting community health and development; and Chapter 3, Section 8 on 'mapping' which is very useful for community projects.

Community Asset Mapping worksheets
Tri-Cities freenet (WA) posted this excellent collection of worksheets and resources on how to map individual capacities, local institutions and citizen associations.

Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement
Helps Canadian communities take ownership of local issues by making use of proven strategies for community engagement

Public Health Agency of Canada - Bringing Health to the Planning Table - A Profile of Promising Practices
This report profiles case studies of 13 Canadian communities where collaborative approaches to improve health outcomes have been a key consideration in planning decisions related to the built environment. Prepared for the Healthy Living Issue Group of the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network

Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
OHCC works with the diverse communities of Ontario to strengthen their social, environmental, and economic well-being. Excellent resources, links to community stories and field staff, newsletters, publications and much more.