how to use healthycity.org for community engaged mapping

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)

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create while logged in

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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!