Publication | Moving from Listening to Action; A Guide to Facilitating Focus Groups for Community Asset Identification

By Dr. Daniel Kahl, Professor and Associate Director, CEDIK and Karen Fawcett
Published on Jan. 16, 2019

Involving community members to explore their local health environment is an effective way to engage people in discovery of community assets. This publication provides guidance to Extension Agents to facilitate a focus group to explore health assets and organize community members for follow-up health improvement actions...   

Facilitator's Guide | Leading Healthy Community Connections

By Dr. Daniel Kahl, Professor and Associate Director, CEDIK
Published on Oct. 16, 2018

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Participant Guide | Leading Healthy Community Connections

By Dr. Daniel Kahl, Professor and Associate Director, CEDIK
Published on Oct. 16, 2018

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Internship | Manchester KY 2018

By Ryan Sandwick, Community Design Specialist, CEDIK
Published on Oct. 8, 2018

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PowerPoint Presentation | Leading Healthy Community Connections

By Dr. Daniel Kahl, Professor and Associate Director, CEDIK
Published on Oct. 7, 2018

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Publication | A Policy, Systems, and Environment Approach to Community Health

By Dr. Daniel Kahl, Professor and Associate Director, CEDIK
Published on Aug. 16, 2018

 Health is impacted by individual behavior as well as influenced by relationships, culture, and environment. The socio-ecological model of health illustrates how the connections between family patterns, shared culture, and access to resources can affect behavior.

How-To Guide | Create a Basemap in Inkscape

By Dr. Jayoung Koo, CEDIK Extension Specialist and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Published on Apr. 6, 2018

Inkscape is a great alternative to Adobe Illustrator and InDesign due to the easy interface yet complex and extensive capabilities to create and edit 2D objects such as symbols, logos, and documents. The program will allow the user to save their work without it being pixelated, since it is a vector-based program.

Activity Guide | Radical Walking Toolkit

By Community Design
Published on Mar. 6, 2018

Radical Walking is a process for recapturing our understanding of everyday spaces through slow walking. The initial idea of Radical Walking emerged from the works of a French theorist and philosopher from the mid-20th Century.

Publication | Mapping Local Networks to Reach Stakeholders and Mobilize Resources

By Dr. Daniel Kahl, Professor and Associate Director, CEDIK
Published on Nov. 16, 2017

Creating a stakeholder and resource map is designed to guide a facilitated discussion and visual recording of a brainstorming activity to identify stakeholders and resources related to an initiative.

Publication | Placemaking: Strengthening Your Public Spaces

By Dr. Jayoung Koo, CEDIK Extension Specialist and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Published on Oct. 1, 2017

Strong public spaces provide lasting impressions and shared community experiences. Public spaces are locations that are accessible to the public, including parks, streets, playgrounds, and fairgrounds.