Game Face 4:13 Training Academy is a strategic camp developed by Mrs. Ashanti Jackson that exists to develop basketball skills, academic excellence, and ethical character within young people in the Jacksonville community. To identify the areas where GameFace can offer its programs, we collected data from the Census, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Florida Department of Health, Duval County Public Schools, Food Deserts, and Churches with Food Banks. We performed Factor Analysis and Correlation Analysis on the gathered data. We utilized the statistical analysis results to create a geographic information systems decision tool using Tableau. Based on our analysis, we understand that youths are facing major issues in Duval County are Juvenile Arrests and Disciplinary Actions within schools. Zip Codes 32210, 32209, and 32208 have a higher number of all the issues analyzed. Game Face is on the right track to providing Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Training to youth in Duval County as these would help tackle these issues and create a positive impact on the lives of youth. We recommend Game Face collaborate with schools and churches in these communities to set up their training camp. We recommend Game Face gather data on youth involvement in training, leadership coaching, and healthy habits programs. We recommend Game Face to gather data related to student academic outcomes beyond Game Face training, such as college scholarships and high school graduations.

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C O N C L U S I O N S
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Juvenile crime related issues were found to be higher in the zip codes 32208 and 32210.
Health related issues were found to be on the higher end in case of zip codes 32209 and
32210 whereas disciplinary action related issues were found to be higher in zip codes
32210 and 32218. Collaboration with schools in these areas and churches is highly
recommended. We recommend GameFace to collaborate with schools that have lack of
mental health and wellness related programs. We suggest GameFace to gather data on
youth involvement, engagement, and retention as well as impact on students beyond
GameFace.
Identifying Communities with Opportunities
for Positive Youth Development
GameFace 4:13 Training Academy seeks to be a place that transforms the prime time for
juvenile crime into productive development spaces. The social problem that GameFace
addresses are
(1) lack of physical health, mentorship, and coaching for youths who are not getting
enough exercise
(2) lack of educational funding for families due to poverty or single-parent homes, and
(3) lack of character development and morality/integrity/ethics in youth.
To identify the areas where there is a need to bring a change in the areas of character
development, maintaining physical as well as mental health, create interest in
academics, controlling the crime rate among youth population in Duval County so that
GameFace can make an impact by offering trainings in the field of Physical ,Mental and
Spiritual development. GameFace works on closing the gap in these areas among youth
population and works toward betterment of youth population and society. Youth who
join GameFace trainings are more likely to attend college, get good grade in the exams,
stay away from the bad influence, develop positive attitudes, develop healthy lifestyle,
take leadership roles, have higher self-esteem, maintain good mental health, handle
stress easily and develop good character.
We worked on creating a GIS based decision tool. We performed Factor Analysis and
Correlation Analysis.
A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T This project work was completed as a part of the 2022 Florida Data Science for Social Good (FL-DSSG)
program. FIS Computing Distinguished Professorship Award sponsored the 2022 FL-DSSG Summer Internship
program. We are grateful to several FL-DSSG faculty leads and industry mentors who advised and guided us to
achieve the project outcomes.
Minakshi Sharma
I N T R O D U C T I O N
To identify the areas where GameFace can offer their
programs, we collected data from census, Florida
dept. of juvenile justice, Florida Dept. of Health,
Duval county public schools, churches with food banks
and Food Deserts and performed statistical analysis
and created dashboards on tableau.
Stressed Neighborhood
Major issues in Duval
county are juvenile arrests,
disciplinary actions in the
schools, and health issues.
For juvenile arrests, we
have selected offences
related to felony, weapon
related which correlates
with the stressed
neighborhood. In case of
disciplinary action, we have
selected type of incidents,
fighting and in case of
health data, we have
selected deaths due to
hypertension as it relates
more with the stressed
neighborhood.
As displayed in the map, these issues have high intensity in
the zip codes with the darker shades. We can see that the
zip codes 32208,32209 , 32210 are popping up in all the
three different kinds of maps. Disciplinary related issues in
the school e.g., fighting etc., are happening more in the zip
code 32210. Some of the schools in this zip codes didn’t
have mental health related programs and wellness student
clubs for the students.
Master of Science student in Business
Analytics and Information Systems,
University of South Florida
Master of Public Health Student, UNF
Abhishek Pancholi
Dan Richard Associate Professor, Psychology, UNF
Karthikeyan
Umapathy
Associate Professor, Computing, UNF
Ashanti Jackson Founder and CEO, GameFace 4:13 Training
Academy