This document provides information about Healthy City, a nonprofit organization that provides online resources and tools to support social change. It enables community groups to access and map health, education and social services data to research issues and advocate for solutions. The organization works with various partners and provides training to help community groups use its online mapping platform and storytelling features to conduct research, share findings and promote initiatives.
HealthyCity.org Public Health webinar Healthy City
This webinar is for individuals working in the Public Health and Health fields. We will look at public health issues in our communities using the mapping and charting tools on HealthyCity.org. We will examine how you can use HealthyCity.org to research the social determinants of health and visualize health disparities.
HealthyCity.org Public Health webinar Healthy City
This webinar is for individuals working in the Public Health and Health fields. We will look at public health issues in our communities using the mapping and charting tools on HealthyCity.org. We will examine how you can use HealthyCity.org to research the social determinants of health and visualize health disparities.
Healthy City Webinar Advanced Training 3.16.11Healthy City
This is a recording of our Advanced Training webinar. Here is a description:
This training will go beyond the basics and will help you maximize the potential of the website to make customized maps, upload your own data, promote your community’s story, and more! After this training you will have the tools to:
- Customize the display of your data to effectively explain an issue
- Compare Communities & Rank geographies choosing from multiple indicators
- Analyze demographic, health and socioeconomic data
- Upload your own data and neighborhood boundaries
- Tell your community’s story
How to Use HealthyCity.org for Grant Writing & ReportingHealthy City
These slides are from a webinar designed to demonstrate how to use HealthyCity.org to enhance your grant proposals and reports with visually impactful and relevant data, maps, and charts. Learn how to access data that highlights the needs and opportunities within your communities of interest and how to make the case that your program will make a difference.
In this training you will learn how to:
- Gather data for your particular area of interest by creating your own community boundaries.
- Create maps and charts that provide the visual evidence to demonstrate both the need and potential within your community.
- Report your results - make the case that your program or project has had a positive and measurable impact.
How to Use HealthyCity.org and Learn the ABCs of DataHealthy City
Have you ever been excited about the world of data, but not sure where to begin? What if you could learn the basics of data and access all that you need in one place? HealthyCity.org provides one of the largest community resource and data hubs in California, pulling information from trusted and reliable data sources and presenting it in user-friendly formats for local communities throughout the state. Learn about trusted data sources, how to interpret data and how to use it to meet your research and advocacy needs. This webinar will discuss the power of primary and secondary data, tips for finding and presenting data specifically on www.healthycity.org as well as examples of how data has been utilized for community based research and advocacy. (Click on the link to read more)
Healthy City Community Planning and Development webinarHealthy City
This customized webinar is for individuals working in Community Planning & Development that are interested in learning new strategies and tools to create healthier living environments in our communities. Working within a social justice framework, this webinar will demonstrate useful practices for planners utilizing the HealthyCity.org website. It will focus on how to use HealthyCity.org to promote a deeper understanding of community assets, characteristics, and the physical environment in order to inform and enhance the planning process. It will also highlight successful methods to engage community members in planning efforts, particularly around sharing local knowledge about the built environment. The webinar will also feature a guest presenter from Legal Services of Northern California to share their experience and successes using data and maps for advocacy and community building.
Healthy City Webinar Advanced Training 3.16.11Healthy City
This is a recording of our Advanced Training webinar. Here is a description:
This training will go beyond the basics and will help you maximize the potential of the website to make customized maps, upload your own data, promote your community’s story, and more! After this training you will have the tools to:
- Customize the display of your data to effectively explain an issue
- Compare Communities & Rank geographies choosing from multiple indicators
- Analyze demographic, health and socioeconomic data
- Upload your own data and neighborhood boundaries
- Tell your community’s story
How to Use HealthyCity.org for Grant Writing & ReportingHealthy City
These slides are from a webinar designed to demonstrate how to use HealthyCity.org to enhance your grant proposals and reports with visually impactful and relevant data, maps, and charts. Learn how to access data that highlights the needs and opportunities within your communities of interest and how to make the case that your program will make a difference.
In this training you will learn how to:
- Gather data for your particular area of interest by creating your own community boundaries.
- Create maps and charts that provide the visual evidence to demonstrate both the need and potential within your community.
- Report your results - make the case that your program or project has had a positive and measurable impact.
How to Use HealthyCity.org and Learn the ABCs of DataHealthy City
Have you ever been excited about the world of data, but not sure where to begin? What if you could learn the basics of data and access all that you need in one place? HealthyCity.org provides one of the largest community resource and data hubs in California, pulling information from trusted and reliable data sources and presenting it in user-friendly formats for local communities throughout the state. Learn about trusted data sources, how to interpret data and how to use it to meet your research and advocacy needs. This webinar will discuss the power of primary and secondary data, tips for finding and presenting data specifically on www.healthycity.org as well as examples of how data has been utilized for community based research and advocacy. (Click on the link to read more)
Healthy City Community Planning and Development webinarHealthy City
This customized webinar is for individuals working in Community Planning & Development that are interested in learning new strategies and tools to create healthier living environments in our communities. Working within a social justice framework, this webinar will demonstrate useful practices for planners utilizing the HealthyCity.org website. It will focus on how to use HealthyCity.org to promote a deeper understanding of community assets, characteristics, and the physical environment in order to inform and enhance the planning process. It will also highlight successful methods to engage community members in planning efforts, particularly around sharing local knowledge about the built environment. The webinar will also feature a guest presenter from Legal Services of Northern California to share their experience and successes using data and maps for advocacy and community building.
ZIP Codes? Census tracts? Service Planning Area? What do all of these geographies mean? More importantly, which one should I use for my map?!
This webinar answers all these questions and more. Learn how geographic boundaries are determined, how to choose geographies and how this basic step in map-making will affect the interpretation of your map. Ultimately, you will learn how to make the best map possible to support your case.
Healthy City works with community-based organizations to apply Community Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) in their mapping and community-engagement work. CBPAR starts with issues and strategies to produce analysis, uses mapping technology as one tool for community engagement and focuses on communities within a geographic location, such as a neighborhood. Using CPBAR in mapping facilitates engagement, education, strategizing, and dialogue among community members--including youth--and decision-makers.
Including young people in map making allows them to contribute their unique knowledge and lived experiences as community residents. Youth can provide invaluable insight and can act as change agents advocating on behalf of their communities. Whether you are a Youth Organizer, Community Liaison or Direct Service Provider, there are a number of ways you can incorporate and share youth data and stories using a variety of free resources and tools available on HealthyCity.org to build community power.
In this webinar you will learn how to:
1) Research and map youth population data to enhance program focus and planning on healthycity.org
2) Upload your own data onto a map
3) Use Wikimaps to better plan, collaborate and share youth outreach strategies and stories
DRAFT summary of events in 2010 to seed collection of headlines, flyers, photos for full Wall of Wonder to be presented at March 19 Community Wide meeting.
HealthyCity.or Hands-on Introductory Training-v.7.14.11Healthy City
These slides are from a hands-on training designed to provide an overview of the Healthy City website, which allows you to search for local services, as well as create maps and charts of health and socio-economic data to support policy and planning. After participating in an Introductory Training, you will understand how to use HealthyCity.org to:
- Register for your own free account (to save data, maps, and more)
- Find a Service using the detailed health and human service database of 211s across the state
- Create an Asset Map for your community - Map thematic data along with services and other points of interest
- Grab a stat: Find data quick using charts and tables
- Learn about advanced features
How to Use HealthyCity.org to Influence PolicyHealthy City
These slides are from a webinar designed to demonstrate how to use HealthyCity.org to inform and communicate your advocacy and policy goals. Integrating the data and tools available on HealthyCity.org into your organizational advocacy and policy strategies can broaden efforts to influence decision-making at the local, state, and federal level.
In this training you will learn how to:
- Research relevant resources and data throughout California such as demographic, health, education, and housing to inform your organizational policy proposals.
- Create maps and charts that can visually communicate your advocacy message to impact policy decisions.
- Gather data to enhance on-the-ground knowledge of the community’s perspective and needs in relation to specific policy proposals and decisions.
- Connect communities, advocates, and decision-makers to information and data to stimulate action for policy change.
How to Use HealthyCity.org to Influence PolicyHealthy City
These slides are from a webinar designed to demonstrate how to use HealthyCity.org to inform and communicate your advocacy and policy goals. Integrating the data and tools available on HealthyCity.org into your organizational advocacy and policy strategies can broaden efforts to influence decision-making at the local, state, and federal level.
In this webinar you will learn how to:
- Research relevant resources and data throughout California such as demographic, health, education, and housing to inform your organizational policy proposals.
- Create maps and charts that can visually communicate your advocacy message to impact policy decisions.
- Gather data to enhance on-the-ground knowledge of the community’s perspective and needs in relation to specific policy proposals and decisions.
- Connect communities, advocates, and decision-makers to information and data to stimulate action for policy change.
This is a presentation that was given in Merced on March 15, 2012. Healthy City is an information + action resource. Healthy City is a program of Advancement Project.
This is the PowerPoint from our 3.17.10 Healthy City Webinar (there is no audio component). Additional User Guides will soon be available on HealthyCity.org.
This presentations covers:
- Case Study: Advocating for a Safe Place to Play at Stiern Park by Jennifer Lopez, Kaiser Permanente and Jose Pinto, Greenfield Community Resident
- Case Study: Youth Map Healthy Food Options in Historic Filipinotown (LA) by Ailene Ignacio, Asian Pacific Islander Obesity Prevention Alliance
- Using Wikimaps on HealthyCity.org for Community-Engaged Mapping
- Additional Resources
Using Maps in Community-Based Research (3/12/15)Healthy City
Through this webinar you will:
• Explore Healthy City's community-based research approach
• Hear case studies of how others have used community mapping
• Learn how to create your own maps on HealthyCity.org
This webinar will be examining diabetes hospitalization rates among US and Foreign-Born Hispanics/Latin@s in California. Using the Social Determinants of Health framework, we will be exploring potential contributing factors to these hospitalization rates. Lastly, we will demonstrate (live) how to access and map related health data of other communities of interest on HealthyCity.org.
Social Determinants of Health in ActionHealthy City
Social determinants of health: Exploring how to put health research into action using data and mapping
This webinar will explore various ways to put health research into action by using data and mapping tools. We’ll use the Social Determinants of Health as a frame to present examples of ways to map services in your selected geography, how to map demographic and health data such as poverty and education; and how to work with different features on HealthyCity.org to support your work.
A Holistic Approach to Women s Health, Data and MappingHealthy City
In this webinar we will discuss:
* Changing the lens when analyzing data on women’s health by considering mind/body/spirit
*A day in the life of two women: what do women need to lead comprehensive healthy lives?
*Tools and resources available on HealthyCity.org
*Moving from information to action
This webinar will demonstrate how to use HealthyCity.org to enhance your grant proposals and reports with visually impactful and relevant data and maps. Learn how to access data highlighting the needs and opportunities within your communities and how to make the case that your program will make a difference.
Maps help communities tell stories.Maps help connect the dots between data and people within specific geographic locations. Maps can also reveal unique, place-based issues that quantitative data alone cannot. Maps can also be repositories for community knowledge which can assist advocates, community-based organizations, policy-makers and funders to communicate community needs to a broad audience clearly, quickly and dramatically. In this webinar we will cover map making basics using HealthyCity.org.
You will also learn:
* How maps are used for research and action
* Key elements of map design and mapping methods
* Considerations and best tips for creating effective maps
Healthy City's Community Research Lab (CRL) shares best practices and methods for community-based organizations interested in supporting their strategies with research that combines community knowledge + Healthy City technology. The CRL is a resource for collaborating, networking, learning, and innovating with community-based organizations to lead and sustain research for social change. Using the Community Based Participatory Action Research framework, we partner with organizations to develop, implement, and disseminate community research projects, tools, and workshops.
Earlier this year, we received a two-year grant to provide our CRL Workshop series throughout California! In these workshops, we provide step-by-step guidance on topics that cover:
• how to develop research questions
• how to create effective community maps
• how to facilitate participatory mapping
• how to share maps and data with local community members
The workshops also include:
• facilitated activities training participants how to collect community feedback for advocacy, organizing and other projects
• sessions on how to develop strategies where community members can give input to telling their community’s story.
We are currently preparing to launch the first round of the workshop series in: Sacramento, Central Valley, and the Inland Empire!
Supporting Abused and Neglected Children Through Early Care and PolicyHealthy City
Title: Supporting abused and neglected children through early care and policy
This webinar will make the case for supporting abused and neglected children through early care opportunities as well as describe how to use the healthycity.org site to research and identify policy solutions around foster youth and early childhood education issues.
Learning objectives:
1) Strengthen one’s understanding of populations that make up abused and neglected children
2) Learn how to identify data around abused and neglected children on healthycity.org
3) Understand policy opportunities to improve conditions for the youngest abused and neglected children
Is Information Power? Maps and Data for Community ChangeHealthy City
This slideshow showcases new and improved tools in both English and Spanish available on HealthyCity.org as well as stories from partners using maps and data to transform their communities. By participating in this webinar, you will:
• See new and exciting updates including HealthyCity.org in Spanish, easy to use how-to guides, and enhanced data search
• Hear examples of how data and maps have driven community change
• Learn how you can turn information into action
Solving the Mystery of Geographies (pdf)Healthy City
ZIP Codes? Census tracts? Service Planning Area? What do all of these geographies mean? More importantly, which one should I use for my map?!
This webinar answers all these questions and more. Learn how geographic boundaries are determined, how to choose geographies and how this basic step in map-making will affect the interpretation of your map. Ultimately, you will learn how to make the best map possible to support your case.
How to Use HealthyCity.org for Uploading Your Own Data Healthy City
Do you collect data about your community? Are you using the best tools to target your services, outreach or organizing efforts? Using www.HealthyCity.org to upload and map the data you gather can help maximize your organization’s efforts. This webinar is for individuals looking to better understand the usefulness of data for planning, advocacy and action. We will discuss the importance of data-driven decision-making, how to layer your data alongside other information available on HealthyCity.org, as well as examples of how user-uploaded data has been utilized for research and advocacy.
In this webinar you will learn:
- How to upload point or thematic data on HealthyCity.org, including how to set up your spreadsheet, input information, and how to transform your survey data into informative maps and charts.
- How other HealthyCity.org users have had success in uploading and assessing their data for community research and advocacy, program planning, grant writing, and more.
- The best ways to take the maps you’ve made on HealthyCity.org and share them in reports or social media.
- About accessing our Help Center, which has a User Guide, video tutorials, and recorded webinars that can help you over any technical hurdles.
Healthy City Webinar_Getting Started with HealthyCity.orgHealthy City
This webinar will provide an overview of the Healthy City website, which allows you to search for local services, as well as create maps and charts of health and socio-economic data to support policy and planning. After participating in an Introductory webinar training, you will understand how to use HealthyCity.org to:
- Locate resources by accessing the health and human service database of 2-1-1s across the state
- Research information about your community and create customized maps to enhance planning and advocacy work
- Upload data that you collect in order to see the distribution of your clients, facilities, or other organizations.
How to Use HealthyCity.org for Community Planning and Development Healthy City
This customized webinar is for individuals working in Community Planning & Development that are interested in learning new strategies and tools to create healthier living environments in our communities. Working within a social justice framework, this webinar will demonstrate useful practices for planners utilizing the HealthyCity.org website. It will focus on how to use HealthyCity.org to promote a deeper understanding of community assets, characteristics, and the physical environment in order to inform and enhance the planning process. It will also highlight successful methods to engage community members in planning efforts, particularly around sharing local knowledge about the built environment.
5. GOVERNMENTONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGY www.HealthyCity.org COMMUNITY RESEARCH LAB Training community groups to lead and sustain action-oriented research & technology projects …is an information + action resource that unites rigorous research, community voices and innovative technologiesto solve the root causes of social inequity
6. Partners Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Advancement Project USC School of Social Work 2-1-1 LA County United Ways of California Children Now California Pan-Ethnic Health Network Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Prevention Institute The California Endowment Legal Services of No. Cal. CA Immigrant Policy Center CA Partnership California Rural Legal Assistance Central Valley Health Policy Institute Fresno Metro Ministry United Way Fresno County First 5 Fresno County Sacramento Housing Alliance UC Davis – Center for Regional Change Community Services Planning Council United Way Bay Area Santa Clara Comm. Benefits Coalition Urban Strategies Council San Mateo Healthy Communities Collaborative Contra Costa Crisis Center United Way of Fresno/2-1-1 2-1-1 San Diego 2-1-1 Monterey County 2-1-1 San Bernardino Volunteer Center of Riverside County United Way Bay Area/Helplink Community Service Planning Council – 2-1-1 Sacramento UW Silicon Valley/Santa Clara Eden I & R – 211 Alameda Interface Children Family Services – 2-1-1 Ventura Volunteer Center of Sonoma County
9. Upload data & Share your community’s storyPopulation Characteristics Civic Participation Employment, Income & Poverty Health Conditions, Diseases, Injuries and Deaths Crime & Public Safety Housing And much more… Social Services & Nonprofits Hospitals and FQHCs Public & Private Schools Grocery Stores & WIC Vendors Alcohol Outlets & Toxic Sites And much more…
10. Today you will learn how to: Find a School to look up API scores, Physical Fitness test results, Student body demographic info & MORE Map schools that meet the criteria of your choice Learn about advanced features such as saving your maps, uploading your own data and creating a story
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12. 1. Find a School: Find your school to look up API scores, Physical Fitness test results, Student body demographic info & MORE You can save and share anything you create while logged in GET STARTED!
21. You can save and share anything you create while logged in GET STARTED! 2. Map Schools: Create a map to display schools that meet certain criteria
22. Click on Change to select your geography Where are the schools that have > 90% of students that receive Free and Reduced Lunch in the city of Los Angeles?
39. Your Turn Map schools in the city of L.A. applying a filter of your choice
40. Other Map Room Features CUSTOMIZE your map: Change the display of data Add boundary labels like ZIP or city Compare your region to another geography
58. Create a Story to: Promote your initiative or highlight your work! Package your saved maps, live mapping sessions, reports, multi-media and more into a “story” that you can share Tell your Story