This is an overview of the Creating Healthy Communities Community of Practice

1. eXtension’s Creating Healthy Communities
Marissa Stone
The Creating Healthy Communities CoP
Auburn University

2. EXTENSION TOOLS
 http://www.extension.org/search

3. EXTENSION SITES
 http://www.extension.org/familiesfoodfitness

4. EXTENSION SITES
 http://www.extension.org/foofsafety

5. EXTENSION SITES
 http://www.extension.org/parenting

6. CREATING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
 http://www.extension.org/creatinghealthycommunities
The Creating Healthy Communities CoP covers 4 primary content areas
related to providing resources supportive of the following goals:
1. Improving the Health of Vulnerable Populations
2. Developing Community Engagement and Leadership Skills
3. Fostering Informed Health Policy Decisions
4. Advancing Healthy Community Environments
• For those who are striving to create healthier environments at the local
level
• A provider of information/assistance and as a referral agent to other
sources, points of expertise, and examples of effective community
initiatives.
• A repository of resources that can lay the preliminary ground work for
you and exhibit the “best” that exists in both knowledge and experience.

8. LOGGING INTO EXTENSION.ORG
 Visit www.extension.org/people
 Enter your eXtension ID and Password
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your
password?
CLICK HERE and
enter your username
or email address!
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for an ID?

9. SETTING UP YOUR PROFILE
 Click “My Profile” from the tabs at the top.
 Is your information correct?
 If not, take a moment now to make your edits.

10. ACCEPTING THE USER AGREEMENT
 Select “account” from the top right corner of the screen
 Take a moment to be sure that it is accepted

11. JOIN THE COP THAT INTERESTS YOU!
 Click “Communities” from the tabs at the top.
 Select Creating Healthy Communities
from the list on the right side.

12. THE EDEN COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE IN PEOPLE
Community
of Practice
Published
Content

13. ASK THE EXPERT
NEW!
Users are
now able to
Ask a
Question
Question is & upload a
submitted
from an individual photo to go answersthe
Question is assigned
to an expert by the
Expert
question, and
the
Location: along with it. is received as
system or by a answer
Either from the question wrangler. an email by the
eXtension.org person who
website or from an submitted the
eXtension.org widget question.
on another website.

14. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION SYSTEM
VS THE ASK AN EXPERT SYSTEM
Once a question
has been
AaE system receives the public’s
answered, it may
questions concerning their
be pushed from
specific situations, and allows the
the AaE system to
expert to answer.
the FAQ system.
The FAQ system handles questions
(and answers) that have been
developed from literature or from
AaE questions/answers that are deemed appropriate
to be published to the public site as a FAQ.

15. EXTENSION WIDGETS
 A Widget is a tool for your website
 These widgets are provided/managed by eXtension.org
 http://www.extension.org/widgets Content Feed Widgets
Ask an Expert Widget

16. QUESTIONS?
FAQ SYSTEM
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