Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Kaia M. Gallagher, Douglas V. Easterling, and Dora G. Lodwick -- The Colorado healthy communities initiative: communities defining and addressing health / Ross F. Conner, Sora Park Tanjasiri, Catherine L. Dempsey, Gabriela Robles, Marc B. Davidson, and Douglas V. Easterling -- The community indicators project: tracking health and quality of life / Ross F. Conner, Douglas V. Easterling, Sora Park Tanjasiri, and James V. Adams-Berger -- The teen pregnancy prevention 2000 initiative: community building through consensus / Kaia M. Gallagher and Jodi G. Drisko -- The community action for health promotion initiative: building capacity in small, focused, community-based health promotion programs / Douglas H. Fernald, Deborah S. Main, Carolyn J. Tressler, and Kathryn A. Judge Nearing -- The volunteers for rural seniors initiative: leveraging community resources to meet the needs of seniors -- Dora G. Lodwick and Allan Wallis -- The Colorado school health education initiative: promoting school health education through capacity building / Deborah S. Main, Douglas H. Fernald, Kathryn A. Judge Nearing, Donna K. Duffy, and Jill A. Elnicki -- Home visitation learning groups: community-based professionals discovering best practices / Thomas I. Miller, Michelle Miller Kobayashi, and Peggy L. Hill -- What do the case studies say about community-based health promotion"? / Douglas V. Easterling, Kaia M. Gallagher, and Dora G. Lodwick -- Practical lessons for promoting health at the community level / Douglas V . Easterling, Kaia M. Gallagher, and Dora G. Lodwick.