Other Resources
The following two guides were developed by the CPRC with assistance and guidance from survivors of violence, health professionals, medical students and community-based experts. The guides will be updated periodically. We invite you to provide us with additions, corrections or comments by contacting the CPRC and/or in addition, completing our survey at the link provided below.

• Grief Support and Recovery After Homicide: A Manual for Survivors and Providers (pdf) is a step-by-step guide to resources for families and individuals who have lost someone to homicide.
• Support and Recovery for Survivors of Violence: A Manual for Survivors and Providers (pdf) is a step-by-step guide to resources for families and individuals who have survived community violence or violent injuries.
• Click here for a worksheet that can be used in the first couple of days after losing a loved one to homicide.
• Please click here to take a survey to assist the CPRC in receiving feedback about the manuals.
• We will be posting regular updates and additions to the guide on this page, so keep checking!

The following are other resources we have found useful in our work. (Please note that inclusion of resources on the CPRC web site does not constitute endorsement of all content by the CPRC or UCSF.)

• 2009, Advocating for Latino Families in San Francisco: This project is a collaborative effort between Clinica Martin Baro, CARECEN and the UCSF Community Partnership Resource Center, led by Cara Torruellas, MDr: This is an advocacy guide with the aim of highlighting health disparities, social issues and advocacy needs of Latino communities in SF, foster a dialogue of advocacy needs between SF providers and clients, to serve as a tool to assist providers in connecting clients with available health and social resources in SF, to assist providers in helping clients naviagte a complex system of health services and public health benefits. Advocating for Latino Families in San Francisco(pdf).
• Community Tool Box: The Tool Box provides over 6,000 pages of practical information to support your work in promoting community health and development. The core of the Tool Box is the "topic sections" that include practical guidance for the different tasks necessary to promote community health and development. For instance, there are sections on leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, grant writing, and evaluation to give just a few examples. This web site was created and is maintained by the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas (U.S.A.). Developed in collaboration with AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts, the site has been on line since 1995, and it continues to grow on a weekly basis.
• http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/tools_toc.htm
• Prevention Institute: A non-profit national center dedicated to improving community health and well-being by building momentum for effective primary prevention. Primary prevention means taking action to build resilience and to prevent problems before they occur. The Institute's work is characterized by a strong commitment to community participation and promotion of equitable health outcomes among all social and economic groups. Since its founding in 1997, the organization has focused on injury and violence prevention, traffic safety, health disparities, nutrition and physical activity, and youth development.   Included here are tools for assessing health and safety in a community and the report A Lifetime Commitment to Violence Prevention: The Alameda County Blueprint (PDF) as well as many other tools and publications.
  • http://www.preventioninstitute.org/home.html
  • 2007, Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative,(BARHII), Health Inequities in the Bay Area, , is a report that establishes the health disparities that exist dependent on where one lives and questions the fairness of health depending on what community one lives in.
  • 1998, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Dental Bureau, Dental Health Report for San Francisco,, is a report that describes the oral health status of low income children in San Francisco. 
  • 2007, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Program on Health, Equity and Sustainability-Department of Public Health, Eastern Neighborhoods Community Health Impact Assessment-Final Report, (ENCHIA), , is a report that comprehensively evaluates the health benefits and burdens of major revisions to land use plans in San Francisco’s Eastern Neighborhoods, including the Mission, Showplace Square/Potrero Hill, and South of Market. 
  • 1998, San Francisco Fetal Infant Mortality Review Program –SFDPH Children, Youth and Families Section, Fetal Infant Mortality Review,, is an examination and evaluation of the circumstances surrounding the deaths of babies in a community.
  • 2008, San Francisco Department of Public Health,  Program on Health, Equity, and  Sustainability, Impacts on Community Health of Area Plans for the Mission, East SoMa, and Potrero Hill/Showplace Square: An Application of the Healthy Development Measurement Tool (HDMT), , is a public draft of the  evaluation of the Eastern Neighborhood Area Plans using the HDMT.
  • 2007, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Program on Health, Equity and Sustainability, Tales of a City’s Workers: A Profile of Jobs and Health in San Francisco, 
  • 2003, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Director of Health’s Report on the Comprehensive Environmental Lead Poisoning Prevention Program for The City and County of San Francisco,
  • 2007, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Calculating Expected Years of Life Lost to Rank the Leading Causes of Premature Death in San Francisco,
  • 2004, San Francisco Department of Public Health Occupational and Environmental Health, Program on Health, Equity, and Sustainability, Unaffordable Housing: the Costs to Public Health,
  • 2008, San Francisco Free Mental Health Chart, provides a directory of various free mental health services listed according to varying issues.
• Bibliography:
  • Fink A. 1997. The Survey Kit. (9 vol.) Sage Publications.
  • Kretzmann J, McKnight J. 1993. Building Communities From the Inside Out. ACTA Publications.
  • Krueger RA. 2002. Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research. Sage Publications.
  • Minkler M (ed). 1997. Community Organizing & Building for Health. Rutgers University Press.
  • Morgan DL, Krueger RA. 1997. The Focus Group Kit. (6 vol.) Sage Publications.
  • Rhyne R, et al. 1998. Community-Oriented Primary Care: Health Care for the 21st Century. American Public Health Association.
  • Tervalon M, Murray-Garcia J. 1998. Cultural humility versus cultural competence: a critical distinction in defining physician training outcomes in multicultural education. J Health Care Poor Underserved 9:117.
  • Wortis N, Beck E, and Donsky J. 2007. Health and the Community.  In Medical Management of Vulnerable & Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice and Populations.  McGraw Hill Medical.