How to Use HealthyCity.org to Influence Policy
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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.
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How to Use HealthyCity.org to Influence Policy
- 1. Information + action for social change How to Use HealthyCity.org toInfluence Policy
- 2. Healthy City is a project of… A public policy change organization rooted in the civil rights movement
- 5. FOUNDATIONS
- 6. 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
- 7. 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
- 8. 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
- 10. Types of Data on HealthyCity.org Services & Points Social Services & Nonprofits Hospitals and FQHCs Public & Private Schools Grocery Stores & WIC Vendors Alcohol Outlets & Toxic Sites And much more…
- 11. Types of Data on HealthyCity.org Thematic Population Characteristics Civic Participation Employment, Income & Poverty Health Conditions, Diseases, Injuries and Deaths Crime & Public Safety Housing And much more…
- 12. “Point” & “Thematic” Data
- 13. Question for Participants What campaigns or projects are you working on that might benefit from data and/or mapping? (Type it in the question section)
- 14. Today you will learn how to: Research relevant resources and data throughout California to inform your policy proposals. Create maps and charts that can visually communicate your advocacy message to impact policy decisions. Gather 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 to stimulate action for policy change.
- 16. 1. Research relevant resources and data You can save and share anything you create while logged in GET STARTED!
- 17. Click the +- buttons to add data to your map
- 21. Add 2nd layer of data
- 26. Save your Map
- 30. Learn about our data sources
- 33. Research relevant data Questions?
- 34. 2. Create maps and charts that can visually communicate your advocacy message to impact policy decisions.
- 35. Click on Change to select your geography
- 46. Print your map
- 49. Create resource maps by adding point data
- 51. Homicide by Firearms & Youth Development Services
- 54. Homicide by Firearms & Public Schools
- 56. Compare District overall to a high need ZIP
- 58. Visual Evidence for Advocacy
- 59. Create maps and charts to visually communicate your message Questions?
- 60. Time to share… What campaigns or projects are you working on that might benefit from data and/or mapping?
- 61. 3. Gather on-the-ground knowledge of the community’s perspective and needs
- 62. Simulated Example: “Fresh Food for our Families” in Coachella Goals of this imagined network: Promote healthier food options in Coachella by gathering community knowledge to influence policy
- 63. You’ll need to be logged in to your account
- 73. Click to see comment & photo
- 80. Gather on-the-ground knowledge of the community’s perspective and needs Questions?
- 81. 4. Connect communities, advocates, and decision-makers to information to stimulate action for policy change.
- 86. Start adding “pages” to your Story
- 88. Your live map is now part of your Story Your story can have links to other websites
- 93. Connect communities, advocates, and decision-makers to information to stimulate action for policy change. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- 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 next two slides show two major ‘types’ of data – point & thematic.
- Viewing point and thematic data together enables you to get an initial picture of the distribution of resources, while understanding a particular characteristic about an area. For example, are there educational resources in areas with low educational attainment? Is there access to fresh food in areas with a high concentration of people with diabetes?
- 1. Data such as demographic, health, education, and housing
- Research relevant resources and data throughout California such as demographic, health, education, and housing to inform your organizational policy proposals. Ex 1: Your organization is focused on ensuring youth have an equal opportunity to live/grow up in safe communities, free from violence. Your organization has been a strong advocate for policies that promote the reduction of youth violence in communities. Currently, the state is proposing to fund youth violence prevention programs in communities across CA. To influence the distribution and use of these $’s, your organization is working with a network of similar orgs in CA who are seeking to advocate for how the state should consider allocating the funds and demonstrate the need within specific communities of interest for your network.1st – doing some initial research to explore potential relevant data that will demonstrate the needs across CA and within communities of particular interest to your network
- This region seems to have a high rate of both:Homicide Rate & Juvenile Violent Felony Arrest Rate by CountyCalifornia Attorney General Criminal Justice Statistics Center (CJSC)
- ? Usei-tool to say…We have networks/resources in Alameda, see that there is high need
- ? Zoom in to say…We have networks/resources in Alameda, see that there is high need
- You now have statewide view to demonstrate where your network see’s the need across CA. So this is the start of your preliminary research to inform and support your org’s/networks policy proposal to the state or local decision-makers about how/where to allocate funds. You can save this map to have available for future use or sharing with other network memebers, etc.
- 2nd – Now that you’ve explored data for your org/network to demonstrate need across CA. You are now planning to organize legislative visits for your organization and network members. One key area you know you want to focus on is Alameda county, where you have key orgs in the network who can support advocacy in the area as well as data to demonstrate the need for funding to support youth violence prevention. Therefore, your next step would be to drill down to Alameda county, to find additional data that might be helpful and persuasive to lawmakers (might help them make the case for more/priority funding as well)
- Look at homicide by Firearms to demonstrate exposure to violence within communities.
- You might also want to assess types of resources or gaps in resources that exist within this area of high need.
- Where have high concentration of schools, also high concentration of homicides by firearms – could be argument for exposure to violence and need.
- Ex 3: Your organization has been advocating for better access to quality foods in a local community you serve. Currently, you have an initiative that is focused on advocating to local grocery store food chain executives/owners and local health department to improve food access/quality. To demonstrate the need for change, you are seeking to collect data on the quality of food in the local grocery stores and work with resident in community to tell their story of impact on them/community.