Accessing and Using Food Data to Support Collaborative Policy Decisions - PowerPoint Presentation

ACCESSING AND USING FOOD DATA TO SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE POLICY DECISIONS

Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems (CARES) - Columbia, MO

Center for Systems Integration - Denver, CO

Community Initiatives - Columbia, MO

WPM Consulting - Boulder, CO

LiveWell Colorado - Denver, CO

Session Goals

Demonstrate web based interactive mapping and reporting tools – accessing over 7000 publically available national source data layers

Learn how other states are developing tools to arm both the state and communities to better understand the story of their food system

Identify ways that mapping and reporting can be used to support collaboration and advance policy dialogue

Discuss what else we need to advance our efforts!

Session Overview

Group Introductions Introduction to CARES

CARES data management platforms Overview of the Colorado Food Assessment

Framework Food Security, Resiliency & Access Module

Break-Out Discussions Explore how and why to use data to understand and

address issues of food access Group Discussion

How are the tools working? What else might advance your work?

Points – hospitals, social services

Lines – Roads, paths, trails

Networks – Public transportation

Areas– neighborhoods, cities, counties

Imagery – Satellite, Aerial

imagesSpatial Analysis – Proximity, buffer

Mapping is a representation of the real world…

We may tell a better story by overlaying more data…

Interactive MappingOverlaying Local and National Data

Public Good Components:Mapping and Reporting

www.cares.missouri.edu

CARES Core Engine: Public Good Mapping

All public data from all CARES contracts are housed in one national “Commons” Engine

to benefit all communities

Multiple Levels of Geography…

CARES provides free access to the CARES Mapping Engine

Dynamic Reports

Zoom

In

Compare Across Multiple Regions

Report Output

CARES provides free access to the CARES Reporting Engine

Custom Application Components:National Collaborative Management

Systems (NCMS)

Diverse NetworkFlexible to adapt to different Organizations

Community Issues Management

Network specificIntegrated into SharePoint

YUSA GIS

Focus on Obesity WorkRWJF NPO/Grantee frame

Designed w/ NPO & Grantee Input

RWJF Childhood Obesity GIS Future CFS?

CARES Core GIS ENGINE

National Collaborative Management SystemsAre Built on the Public Good Engine

An Example NCMSWhat is Community Issues Management (CIM)?

CIM is a powerful web-based collaborative management system

to help organizations, networks, and community partnerships

enhance collaborative decision-making and action

Why a Collaborative Tool?complex issues, complex data, limited resources

engagement of multiple citizens, partners, organizations

Issue Notebook

Manage local collaborative - issue description, contact information,

keywords, etc…

Issue Notebook

Upload or Hyperlink to

Issue Notebooks help organizations frame and manage the issues

Local Data Integration

1. Automated Upload of GIS Data Layers

2. Automated Upload of Tabular Data a. Existing geography (State, County, City, ZIP Code)

b. Address matching (Geocoding Addresses)

c. Map coordinates (latitude and longitude)

3. You Add Tool - Draw an Area, Point or Line

Three Ways to Integrate Local and Regional Data

2. Tabular Data Upload

Augment local and regional GIS and IT capacity

3. You Add Tool - Draw an Area

Add Attributes about the Area

3. You Add Tool - Draw a Point

Add Attributes about the Point

CO Food Assessment Framework

Sponsored by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Funding is provided through a cooperative

agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ARRA grant number FOA#90101ARRA09

Partnership between LiveWell Colorado and food systems consultants

One of several goals to advance healthy food systems and farm to school efforts in CO

Goals of the CO FAF: Identify and collect existing food systems

indicators across food production, processing, distribution, and access

Identify and collect existing community food assessment tools, data, and lessons learned from across Colorado

Identify and propose an interactive, on-line data management system that includes comprehensive indicators, highlights community data and learning, and facilitates peer networking

Track the health of the state’s food system over time

CO Food Assessment Framework

Break-Out Process

Worksheet: Define a hypothetical goal and focus

Review Included Indicators Discuss what data helps address your

question Take note of what is missing

Group Work: Exploring the Tools

Using the Tool: What data is available to address your

issue? What does it tell us? What reports and maps can you create? What indicators might be missing?

Other Discussion: Would such a national platform support

your work? Would you use it? Who would? What would facilitate you using it?

Contact

Chris FulcherCARESfulcherc@missouri.edu

Erin BarbaroCARESbarbaroe@missouri.edu

Roxanne FulcherCommunity Initiativesrfulcher@communityinitiatives.com

Lyn KathleneCenter for Systems Integration303.455.1740, extension 110www.csi-policy.org

Wendy Peters MoschettiWPM Consultingwendy@wpmconsulting.net303-819-2846