California's Healthy City Provides Data and Resources for Social Change
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Healthy City is a project of the Advancement Project that uses data, research, and technology to address social inequities. It provides an online platform called HealthyCity.org that offers data, maps, and service referrals. Healthy City also works directly with community organizations, helping them leverage data and maps for their advocacy efforts through technical assistance and training community members in research methods. The goal is to empower communities to solve problems and implement solutions through access to information.
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California's Healthy City Provides Data and Resources for Social Change
- 1. Now a Resource for all of California Information + action for social change
- 2. What is Healthy City? Healthy City is an information + action resource that unites community voices, rigorous research and innovative technologies to solve the root causes of social inequity Healthy City is a project of the Advancement Project , a national civil rights, public policy action tank
- 5. The Healthy City team consists of authorities in public policy, research, technology and data analysis. Healthy City John Kim – Director, Healthy City | Co-Director, Advancement Project Caroline Rivas – Sr. Project Manager Chris Schweidler – Sr. Research Manager Lori Thompson – Technology Manager Chris Ringewald – Sr. Research Analyst Tahirah Farris – Project Manager Nkechi Obioha – Project Manager Shannon Ulrickson – Outreach Coordinator Janice Burns – Research Analyst Dagmar Paul – Data Analyst Taisha Bonilla – Executive Assistant to John Kim
- 6. DATA & TECHNOLOGY The HealthyCity.org website
- 7. Who Uses HealthyCity.org? Low-income youth & their families HealthyCity.org Website Service Provider Case Manager Policy Advocate Funder Elected Official Researcher
- 8. Partners
- 9. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Healthy City works with organizations to develop targeted research strategies and customized web tools to help achieve their community’s goals.
- 10. TA Clients (partial)
- 14. HealthyCity.org Let’s Get Started!
- 16. You can save and share anything you create while logged in GET STARTED!
- 17. Services & Points Name Source Social Services 211s Nonprofits IRS 990 Center for Nonprofit Management in Southern California Schools Public & Private California Department of Edaucation WIC Agencies & Vendors Network for a Healthy California Hospitals (OSHPD) OSHPD Head Start Agencies California Head Start Association Child Care Department of Social Services Community Care Licensing Division Alcohol Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control EPA Environmental Protection Agency Grocery DeLorme FQHC U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Fast Food DeLorme Banks DeLorme Check Cashing Businesses DeLorme
- 18. You can save and share anything you create while logged in GET STARTED!
- 19. You’re a case manager in Fresno looking for food and shelter options for a client. They live in ZIP code 93710
- 22. List the services ONLY within the area you’ve selected
- 24. SAVE this list for future reference EMAIL a link to this list of services PRINT list of services
- 26. View services on a map
- 32. Search for services by keyword
- 39. Find a Service room Questions?
- 41. Community Data
- 44. Click on Change to select your area of interest How to improve outreach efforts to Spanish Speakers in San Mateo?
- 46. Click the +- buttons to add Data to your map
- 48. Add a second layer of data: Families in poverty
- 50. Customize your map (color, data ranges, classes)
- 52. Click on the i tool, then anywhere in the map to find out more!
- 55. Click on Go to Area to reset your selected geography
- 56. See the data in a chart
- 57. View absolute numbers & percentages for each category
- 58. Comparing two areas: Where to expand educational resources for pregnant teens in Los Angeles?
- 67. Hover to view name Click to get details
- 69. Save your map
- 73. Learn about our data sources
- 77. Compare your area of interest to the state of California for any variable
- 84. Data & Chart room Questions?
- 87. Step 1: Sign Up for a Free Account
- 89. Be Sure to Check your Spam Folder Click to confirm Registration
- 90. You can now create, save, and share data
- 95. Fill in the details and upload your spreadsheet
- 112. Describe your group, set preferences, label points
- 115. Click to read more & watch the video
- 119. Share & Connect and My Account Questions?
- 120. You can save and share anything you create while logged in GET STARTED!
- 122. Thank You!
Editor's Notes
- Healthy City will soon be a resource for all of California Healthy City is a project of the Advancement Project, a national civil rights, public policy action tank focused on closing the opportunity gap for high need communities. Advancement Project’s work across issues and disciplines has one common principle: to support and enhance community led sustainable change. Healthy City is a direct outgrowth of this principle.
- 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.
- And HC has been successful in LA as an information + action resource because of the partnerships we established early on in the development of the project to help us understand and meet the needs of communities. And as we go statewide, HC continues to be committed to forming partnerships to address community needs. At this stage, HC has 4 primary types of formal partnerships supporting the project in the statewide expansion. This includes our Founding/Governing here in LA, Statewide partners – experts in policy/advocacy – issue areas, and local regional partners to provide some of the same support, training, etc. to communities in their region as we do here in LA, and our I & R partners who provide the detailed resource information to help local services, program planning, assess community needs, etc.
- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE : Healthy City works with organizations to develop targeted research strategies and customized web tools to help achieve their community’s goals. Healthy City’s multi-disciplinary team has created customized approaches to support governmental, foundation, and community-based research needs. Our services are specifically designed to actively move the policy or planning discussion forward and to help good solutions come to fruition.
- CAPACITY-BUILDING Healthy City offers a specialized program called the Community Research Lab (CRL) which engages, trains, and provides tools for community organizations to lead and sustain research. The CRL offers organizations the opportunity to experiment with multiple research and technology tools and apply new skills to their organizational strategy.
- 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.
- More comprehensive in data sources and issue areas We have expanded our data holdings to focus more on public safety, the nonprofit infrastructure and the environment. HealthyCity.org now features new data from the California Department of Social Services, California Employment Development Department, California Cancer Registry and many more new data sources. More current … and more years of data We have added 2009 Nielsen Claritas, Inc. estimate data to our publicly available data and updated data from the California Department of Public Health, California Department of Education, and American Community Survey and many other datasets. We now feature data collected in the 1990s as well as the 2000s, allowing longer time comparisons and better data trending capabilities. Broader in scope, while more focused on local communities HealthyCity.org now covers the State of California in addition to Los Angeles County. Users can now view more data and smaller geographies such as block groups, and new geographies such as Air Basins and updated Voter Precincts are available for search.
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