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These slides are from a webinar designed to highlight the tools on HealthyCity.org that can enhance your community organizing efforts. Combining the data available on HealthyCity.org with localized community knowledge provides a strong foundation for your work that can inform your strategies for action while strengthening community involvement. In this training you will learn how to: - Get a snapshot of your community of interest by accessing relevant and current datasets that provide local economic, health, demographic, and other community information. - Identify a community’s strengths as well as opportunities for improvement by mapping existing assets and areas of need. - Conduct a community-engaged mapping session that will supplement the various datasets that can be found on healthycity.org with qualitative, community-generated data from local stakeholders.
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How to Use HealthyCity.org for Community Organizing:
Focus on Community-Engaged Mapping
Information + action for social change
Healthy City is a project of…
A public policy change organization rooted in the civil
rights movement
A public policy change organization rooted in the civil rights movement
…is an information + action resource that unites rigorous research, community voices and innovative technologies
to solve the root causes of social inequity
DIRECT TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO:
COMMUNITY ORGSFOUNDATIONSGOVERNMENT
COMMUNITY RESEARCH LAB
Training community groups to lead and sustain action-oriented research &
technology projects
ONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGYwww.HealthyCity.org
PartnersChildren’s Hospital Los AngelesAdvancement ProjectUSC School of Social Work 2-1-1 LA CountyUnited Ways of CaliforniaChildren NowCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health NetworkElla Baker Center for Human RightsPrevention InstituteThe California EndowmentLegal Services of No. Cal.CA Immigrant Policy CenterCA PartnershipCalifornia Rural Legal AssistanceCentral Valley Health Policy InstituteFresno Metro MinistryUnited Way Fresno CountyFirst 5 Fresno CountySacramento Housing AllianceUC Davis – Center for Regional ChangeCommunity Services Planning Council
United Way Bay Area
Santa Clara Comm. Benefits CoalitionUrban Strategies CouncilSan Mateo Healthy Communities CollaborativeContra Costa Crisis CenterUnited Way of Fresno/2-1-12-1-1 San Diego2-1-1 Monterey County2-1-1 San BernardinoVolunteer Center of Riverside CountyUnited Way Bay Area/HelplinkCommunity Service Planning Council – 2-1-1 SacramentoUW Silicon Valley/Santa Clara Eden I & R – 211 AlamedaInterface Children Family Services – 2-1-1 VenturaVolunteer Center of Sonoma County
Today you will learn how to:
1. Get a snapshot of your community of interest by accessing relevant and current datasets that provide local economic, health, demographic, and other community information.
2. Identify a community’s strengths and opportunities for improvement by mapping existing assets and areas of need.
3. Use the “Live Mapping” feature to conduct community-engaged mapping, which can help you to gather qualitative, community-generated data from local stakeholders.
Types of Data on HealthyCity.org
Services & PointsSocial Services & NonprofitsHospitals and FQHCsPublic & Private SchoolsGrocery Stores & WIC VendorsAlcohol Outlets & Toxic SitesAnd much more…
Types of Data on HealthyCity.org
ThematicPopulation Characteristics Civic ParticipationEmployment, Income & PovertyHealth Conditions, Diseases,
Injuries and DeathsCrime & Public SafetyHousingAnd much more…
“Point” & “Thematic” Data
Question for Participants
What campaigns or projects are you working on that this webinar may
help to inform?(Type it in the question section)
You can save and share anything you
create while logged in
GET STARTED!
1.
Get a snapshot of your community
Click on Change to select your geography
You’re an organizer working on environmental justice issues. There is a
proposed landfill in your community.
Who lives in this area? Who could this negatively impact?
What can you do with this information?
Click the +- buttons
to add community data to your map
Proposed Landfill near Kirk Elementary &
other schools
SAMPLE MAP – Not actual case
ACTION Use map to:
• Engage and educate the community
• Engage and educate the elected officials/ decision makers at cmty meetings
• Develop a shared understanding of an issue
Learn about our data sources
Get a snapshot of your community
Questions?
Time to Share
What campaigns or projects are you working on that this
webinar may help to inform?Let’s go live!
2.Identify a community’s strengths
and opportunities for improvement
You’re working with a collaborative focused on reducing community violence and
creating safe places for families to thrive.
Who works, lives, or goes to school in this area?How can you reach out to more stakeholders?
PRINT this list of potential partners
and resources
Identify a community’s strengths and
opportunities for improvement
Questions?
Resource Guides Available:
Click on • Service Categories
3.Use the “Live Mapping” feature to
conduct a community-engaged mapping session
What is Community-Engaged Mapping?
A group mapping exercise designed to answer specific research questions and gather community member feedback to develop place-based strategies.
Articulate and communicate their knowledge
Record and archive local knowledge
Identify and manage community resources
Advocate for change
Build community cohesion
Address community conflict
Identify community issues
Community-Engaged Mapping can help communities…
…answer specific research questions What are the research questions that
you want to answer?
…gather community member feedbackHow will you gather feedback? From
which community members?
…to develop place-based strategiesHow will you use this to inform your
strategies?
Community-Engaged Mapping Key Information Needed…
Safe Passages to School
Community-engaged mapping was used to help answer the following research questions:
• What areas in the community do students and parents feel most unsafe?
• What routes do students and parents travel to and from school?
• What are the environmental design issues in this area that might contribute to not feeling safe and/or a lack of personal security?
Safe Passages to School
Students and parents were able to discuss and share locations of unsafe places, routes taken to school, and what environmental design issues they felt contributed to the lack of safety
Safe Passages to School
Key Advantages: • data entry during the
event • multiple computers
can enter data simultaneously
• results, patterns, etc. from participants can be seen and discussed immediately
You’ll need to register for
or Log in to your account
Click on Create a Live Map
Click on View Live Map to get started
plotting points
Safe Passages to School Outcomes:
• Commitment from law
enforcement: shared maps with LAPD
• Monthly Safe Passages meetings
• Parent Outreach
• DOT – pedestrian safety
Community Research Laba resource for collaborating, networking, learning,
and innovating with community based organizations
to lead and sustain research for social change.
Community ResearchParticipatory Asset MappingPlace Based Approaches to
Research and Data
WORKSHOP SERIESOCTOBER 2011
Research and Data RevealedHands-On HealthyCity.org
Creating Community ProfilesMaps for Research and
AdvocacyParticipatory Mapping
Help is Available:
Click on • Healthy City User
Guideor
• FAQs
Thank You!
