2. Healthy City is a project of… A National civil rights POLICY/ ACTION TANK
3. Who is Healthy City? Healthy City is an information + action resource that unites rigorous research, community voices and innovative technologies to solve the root causes of social inequity
4. What Does HC Do? Data & Technology: Data, maps, and service referral through our easy to use online platform HealthyCity.org Technical Assistance: Work ON-THE-GROUND to develop targeted research/policy strategies and web tools Community Research Lab: engages, trains, and provides tools for CBO’s to lead and sustain research.
35. Use HealthyCity.org to: Find services Conduct Research Share your community’s story Anywhere in California!
36. Case Manager Funder Service Provider HealthyCity.org Website Community Organizer Policy Advocate Researcher …to fuel social change and improve our communities Who Uses HealthyCity.org? Grant Writer
40. You can save and share anything you create while logged in GET STARTED!
41. Find a Service Room On the ground service referral (I & R) Collaborate with similar agencies Get detailed data on schools
42. Services & Points Social Service data from 2-1-1 Over 30,000 Service sites across California (Includes: Basic Needs, Legal Services, Education, Health Care, Employment, and many other Community Services)
43. You can save and share anything you create while logged in GET STARTED!
44. You’re a case manager in Fresno looking for food and shelter options for a client. They live in ZIP code 93710
55. Hands-on practice: Find counseling services in your city or neighborhood. Show services only in the Selected Area Hint: Select Mental Health Care and Counseling
61. Hands-on practice: Search for a service using the Keyword tab Show services only within city boundaries. Hint: Keep the search broad (e.g. “senior” and not “senior citizen services”)
101. Hands-on practice: Find the ZIP codes in Long Beach that have high unemployment. Then add employment services to your map. Hints: Economic data > Employment status> unemployed (Use customize tab to change to ZIP code) Services and Points> Income Support and Employment> Employment
102. Comparing two areas: Where to expand educational resources for pregnant teens in Los Angeles?
117. Hands-on practice: Map Educational Attainment (less than 9th grade) in 2 ZIP codes: 90037 and 90035 Then SAVE your map. Hint: Click on Change next to Geography to enter first ZIP; then Compare 2nd Geography to enter the second.
129. Rank indicators by Geography: Where are the areas that have the highest percentage of people without health insurance?
130. Hands-on practice: Chart Registered Voters by political party in your County Click on Show List to see how data is approximated NEXT RankFamilies in Poverty
DATA & TECHNOLOGY HealthyCity.org allows users to search for local services, conduct research and connect with their communities. Beyond providing free access to the largest database of community services and localized data variables, HealthyCity.org offers the ability for users to “tell their own story” by uploading their own data or multimedia to the system.More about www.HealthyCity.org:There are a range of tools available on www.HealthyCity.org which allow users to find services in their neighborhood, map data about their community, and even upload and share their own information about a neighborhood. Key features include:Locate Resources: Focusing on one of our key goals to help families find resources through intermediaries such as case managers, social workers, etc., we display LA County 2-1-1 social service resources. Moving statewide, we will partner with 2-1-1 agencies in other regions of California in order to display that data and increase accessibility to resources.Conduct Analysis: HealthyCity.org has the capacity to map community characteristics (over 900 variables) such as demographic, health, economic, park/green space, etc. You can create community profiles and find gaps in services in relation to need. Advanced mapping functionality allows for the mapping of two variables at once and ranking areas according to how they fare on various community characteristics. Healthy City will have more years of data for the entire state, enabling comparisons between counties across multiple years. Healthy City will have expanded crime and public safety data, as well as new statewide health data, child welfare and public assistance data. Web 2.0 Features: Enable users to upload their own points of interest, save comments on resources, create their own neighborhood boundaries, and save maps! For the statewide platform, Healthy City users will be able to create online affinity groups and share maps, charts, videos, pictures, and comments with partners across California.
HC.org provides these people with data and technology to support their work within and on behalf of our communities. HC.org helps encourage data-driven planning and inform policy within sectors such as Education, Public Safety, Health, Public Health, Government, etc.
The site search is comprehensive – searching through names of organizations, service categories, and data on the site.
New point data…Over the last year we’ve reached out to 2-1-1 agencies across the state to display their data.We’ve also added Hospitals, Head Start agencies, as well as other points that have often been requested - Alcohol Outlets, EPA sites, etc.
Evaluate differences in socioeconomic, health and other data within your City, County, State, or other geography of interest.
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Since the data is not collected at a state level, the data for each of the ZIP codes within the state is aggregated.