BNIA-JFI completed the first phase of research as part of a NNIP cross-site project examining the affects of foreclosures on children. This project identified both the number and characteristics of children affected by foreclosure in Baltimore City’s neighborhoods from the 2003-2004 to the 2008-2009 school year, providing a picture of the demographic, neighborhood, schools, and housing characteristics.
NeighborhoodInfoDC has been providing data and analysis supporting the new Kids Count grantee (DC Action for Children). We released the first of a series of policy briefs based on the 2010 Census in April 27, 2011, entitled “A Tale of Three Cities: What the Census Tells Us and How We Must Repond.”
(Inactive) Community Link Capital Region (Sacramento)
October 2011
Community Link and the Sacramento County Children’s Coalition are in the process of producing a new series of “Action Briefs” that target specific areas of concern for children, youth and young adults previously reported in the 2011 Sacramento County Children’s Report Card. Based on the findings from the Report Card, the briefs are designed to promote a better understanding of current issues and their underlying causes, identify challenges and opportunities for improvement, and provide program and policy recommendations.
Data Driven Detroit(D3) has partnered with Southwest Counseling Solutions to educate Southwest Detroit youth about the geography of their neighborhood as part of the Community Youth Mapping Program.
Urban Strategies Council facilitated, with the Oakland Unified School District, a nine-month planning process with the multi-stakeholder Full Service Community Task Force. We produced a structural framework that became the foundation of the school district’s five-year strategic plan to develop full service community schools at every site with a strong academic core and integrated focus on youth development, family support and engagement, health and social services and community development.
In late 2010, the Urban Strategies Council and Oakland Unified School District, in partnership with the East Bay Community Foundation, launched a bold new initiative aimed at addressing the disparities in educational and social outcomes for African American males in Oakland. This six-year initiative has been established with a set of seven key goals that reflect the massive disparities faced by young black males in our city and a set of strategies aimed at improving those outcomes and eliminating most disparities within six years.
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African American Male Achievment Initiative (AAMAI)
In October 2009, D3 collaborated with the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion. With access to the health department's subcommunity birth data, D3 compiled "Right Start in Detroit 2009: Maternal and Infant Well-Being in the City of Detroit, 2000-2007." The report is a concrete example of how data can be used by the community and policymakers to drive effective decision-making. The report revealed, for example, that both the percentage of babies born with low weight and the percentage of mothers who smoked during pregnancy were significantly high in the Brightmoor, St.
The Skillman Foundation requested that D3 prepare a white paper on the overall well-being of Detroit's children, with a sub-analysis specific to boys of color. This report presents a broad set of indicators on the population aged 0 to 18 years in the City of Detroit. Indicators fall into the following categories: demographic overview, early childhood well-being, child health and access to health care, education, and safety and community. The research provides a basis for a deeper understanding of how best to support Detroit's children, and a benchmark to measure gains in the future.
With a commission from The Skillman Foundation, D3 collaborated with George Galster of Wayne State University to create a report that developed and analyzed a set of quantitative indicators for Skillman’s Good Neighborhoods, to create a comparative, multi-dimensional portrait of the current and evolving neighborhood context in which Detroit’s children develop.
D3 is working with youth services providers in The Skillman Foundation’s Good Neighborhoods program to determine what outside-of-school youth programs are available to young people in the six designated “Good Neighborhoods” areas, document the types of services offered, and whether there are any gaps in service. Launched in 2006, The Skillman Foundation’s Good Neighborhoods is a 10-year, $100-million program that focuses on six Detroit neighborhoods where today nearly 60,000 children live, roughly 30% of the city’s child population.
D3 is providing a baseline profile of the Brightmoor community’s needs and assets. It includes an account of current conditions in Brightmoor covering multiple dimensions; an inventory and mapping of existing assets in the Brightmoor and Cody-Rouge communities; a comprehensive review of existing programs for children ages 0 to 5 in Brightmoor; and a discussion of the gaps revealed by this study between the needs of 0 to 5 year olds in Brightmoor and the resources available to meet the needs.
(Inactive) Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action (Memphis)
April 2012
Originally funded by a grant from the US Department of Justice and designed by CBANA/C3R (working with the Southeast Memphis CDC and Ledic Asset Management) , “Safeways” is a data-driven supportive collaboration among owner/managers, residents, law enforcement, and non-profits to improve safety and quality of life in multifamily housing communities. Owners/managers access training and technical assistance in place management and resident services, and may apply for Safeways Certification.
Lead exposure is one of the most common and preventable environmental health problems threatening children in Rhode Island. Lead exposure, even at very low levels, can cause irreversible damage including impaired cognitive, motor, and physical abilities.
The Providence Healthy Housing Mapper is the first in a series of interactive mapping sites that The Providence Plan will publish to increase access to a variety of health, economic, demographic, and property information.
This tool was created to provide advocates with easier access to property and lead compliance data in Providence. Use this site to:
View childhood lead exposure in Providence
Find lead remediation history on properties
Find and display a variety of information on properties in your neighborhood
The RI DataHUB is a multi-agency longitudinal data system for anyone interested in the well-being of people in Rhode Island. The DataHUB brings together data sets from multiple federal, state and local sources. Data are currently gathered from local partnering public agencies including: the RI Department of Education (RIDE), the RI Department of Health (HEALTH), the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education (RIBGHE), the RI Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), and Providence Public Schools (PPSD).
InfoWorks is a collaborative effort between the Rhode Island Department of Education and The Providence Plan. The InfoWorks site is designed as user-friendly, easily accessible resource for anyone interested in Rhode Island's schools. Available data includes achievement results, demographics, funding, and opinion data.
Providence was named an All-America City by the National Civic League on July 2nd based on its ambitious plan to ensure that more children are reading at grade level by the end of third grade. Providence's plan was submitted by a community coalition that included the city's Mayor Angel Taveras, Rhode Island Kids Count, Ready to Learn Providence (a program of the Providence Plan), the Rhode Island education commissioner and other key members of the educational and nonprofit community.
We are building an opensource local resource directory to replace our current asset service provider system. This is a Rails based app built on the Heroku platform and will be rapidly deployable in other cities with different focuses.
The app allows for basic service searching by custimizable categories, user management of local service provider data and location based filtering and searching. The default will allow for lanugage based service filtering also in a Yelp like interface.
CI:Now was awarded a one-year $50,000 operating grant from the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation to support child data integration and community engagement around child data and information. Kronkosky was a founding member of CI:Now when it was organized as the Alamo Area Community Information System (AACIS) in the late 1990s, and the Foundation continues to recognize the power of shared data for improving community conditions.
Our collaborative work to improve child safety, in this case from motor vehicle accidents, has been recently highlighted on the local KEYE TV News. Our analysis showed that while the accidents were typically occurring at intersections along I-35, the children who had been under-restrained or unrestrained in the accidents were concentrated in two neighborhoods indicating a need for more education in those communities about car seats and safety belts.
Children's Optimal Health is pleased to announce that we have launched a new website. Many of our maps and all of our published reports are available for download through the site. There is currently no charge for these products, but users are asked to register and let us know how they use our work. Children's Optimal Health works to improve operations, impact policy, engage the community and support research to improve the health and well-being of all children in Central Texas.
The Piton Foundation is trying to better understand the impacts the built environment has on child well-being. How can Piton and its partners develop a better understanding of what constitutes environmental child-friendliness (ECF), through an assessment of current conditions in the built environment to identify not only deficits but surpluses, so appropriate resources can be brought to bear in creating a place that truly supports its children?
The United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County has received a $150,000 grant over next 10 months from Annie E. Casey Foundation to implement a community-endorsed two-generation plan to provide programs for children that focus on healthy development, growth and education, as well as services for adults that concentrate on parenting, job skills and financial security.
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance has partnered with their local NPR station, The Lines Between Us, on a series on Inequality in the Baltimore region.
The podcast also includes the report from WYPR's Mary Rose Madden about how foreclosures play out for Baltimore's renters--about half of Baltimore foreclosures affected rental properties. It also includes information about Baltimore children affected by foreclosure, and what the research says about whether minorities were targeted for subprime loans.
Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County Opportunity Youth Initiative.
The Central Falls School District is the grantee with the Urban Institute and ProvPlan playing major roles in terms of project evaluation and data analysis. The NIJ project will be a large-scale intervention ‑ in two school districts (CF and Westerly) and two charter schools (Blackstone Valley Prep and the Greene School) ‑ on how to make schools safer, primarily through the use of “restorative justice” case conferences, a process in which students, teachers, and families work together to resolve conflicts and repair any harm caused by misbehavior. Central Falls has been a trailblazer in R
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
September 30, 2014
With recent Census data indicating that 54 percent of children in the City of Cleveland live in poverty, the Cleveland Plain Dealer asked Dr Claudia Coulton about the relationship between poverty and health for “
EastPoint PaCT (Promise and Choice Together) is a group of coordinated initiatives working to transform and revitalize the EastPoint neighborhood, a near-eastside area with a rich history and tradition. Among others, PaCT work includes the US DOE-funded Eastside Promise Neighborhood, the US HUD-funded Wheatley Choice Neighborhood, the US DOJ-funded Public Safety Enhancement initiatives attached to Promise and Choice, the Annie E.
On behalf a broad collaborative of organizations convened by the United Way of Comal County, CI:Now is conducting a broad secondary data assessment of community needs in Comal and Guadalupe Counties, with a special focus on health.
SA2020 is a community visioning and collective impact initiative focused on 11 cause areas. CI:Now collects and analyzes the data to report indicators of progress in these areas, also working to shed light on critical disparities by race/ethnicity, gender, age group, and neighborhood.
CI:Now is developing the CommunityViewer integrated data system, which brings together “people data" and “place data" from public and private sources to inform early intervention, planning, intervention monitoring, and evaluation and research. More information about CommunityViewer is available here.
CI:Now does supplemental mapping and analysis of San Antonio’s growing bank of neighborhood-level kinder-readiness data from the Early Development Instrument assessment. Spearheaded by the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, EDI is being implemented by a growing number of San Antonio school districts.
CI:Now gathered and analyzed the data for the past several editions of Voices for Children of San Antonio’s Child Data Report, which you can find here. The Data Report has moved under the auspices of the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County's Children's Issue Council and will now be published as an online dashboard.
In collaboration with King County school districts, Public Health – Seattle & King County is developing school district health profiles that will inform school administrators and policy-makers, health and wellness planners, and the public about school health indicators. The primary data source for the reports is the Healthy Youth Survey (HYS), administered every 2 years to 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th graders. Each profile includes:
The Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County has been hosting Communities of Learning for all of its funded programs. They began by grouping all of their funded programs into four clusters; home visiting/case management, behavior health, early childcare/quality early learning, and school support programs. They then invited each agency or organization to send an executive director, program director, and researcher/evaluator for a full-day kick off session. The session began with a discussion about why evaluation is important from a results-based perspective.
In May and August, after partners expressed the desire for more interactions among partners between in-person meetings, we held our first two virtual idea showcases. It gave several partners the chance to share ideas and projects they were working on, and to connect with other interested partners after the webinar. Our second Idea Showcase of 2015 is back by popular demand!
NNIP HQ will start with a quick update on network activities, followed by a series of presentations from partners--
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
June 2015
Lead affects Cleveland children even before kindergarten. In an unpublished report completed in June, Case Western Reserve University and Invest in Children examined the effect of lead poisoning on kids enrolled in the county's universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) programs.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
November 3, 2015
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In the series "Toxic Neglect", the Cleveland Plain Dealer has been running stories on the problems of lead poisoning on young children. Dr. Robert Fischer, co-director of the Poverty Center, was interviewed for "Lead poisoning makes education harder for kids and teachers" on October 22, 2015.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
November 4, 2015
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In an editorial to the Cleveland Plain Dealer on November 1, Poverty Center Co-Director Dr. Rob Fischer discussed the magnitude of the problems from lead exposure on young children.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
March 8, 2016
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At what level does lead exposure become dangerous for children?
Dr. Robert Fischer, Co-Director of the Poverty Center, and Dr. Elizabeth Anthony, Research Assistant Professor at the Poverty Center, examine this question in The Conversation. In the article, " In kids, even low lead levels can cause lasting harm," Fischer and Anthony discuss how children exposed to levels of lead below the current federal threshold still show cognitive deficits and delays in academic progress.
For a more complete case study of this experience, see Chapter 6 of Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data, by G. Thomas Kingsley, Claudia J. Coulton and Kathryn L. S. Pettit (Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2014)
The Children’s Trust held a virtual community workshop, in concert with other agency partners, titled the IDEAS Synergy Event 2020, with a diverse group of 130 early...
CI:Now’s new Viz-a-lyzer is an interactive tool for people to visually explore and analyze (visual… viz… viz-a-lyze… get it?) Bexar County data by zip code tract area and year, with comparisons to Bexar County, Texas, and the United States where available. We’ll be adding new indicators and features several times a year – subscribe to our newsletter to hear when a new release is out.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
July 24, 2017
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Distinguished University Professor Claudia Coulton is co-presenting a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) DataSpeaks webinar on Monday, July 24: “
Related Links:
DataSpeak Webinar Series Data-driven Change at the Community Level:Emerging Research on Urban Child Health
As part of the Civic Tech and Data Collaborative, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council worked with the City of Boston's Division of Youth Engagement and Employment (DYEE) to make the city’s summer job program more accessible to Bost
Local governments should engage with data intermediary organizations, such as the members of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, to more effectively identify priority issues, find new allies, and devise data-driven policies and programs. In addition to their topical, analytic, and community engagement expertise, these organizations bring an understanding of local context, a reputation for impartial analysis, and a set of relationships that spans sectors. Their services build local capacity, including within governments, to use data for better decisionmaking.
At the request of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which funds the KIDS COUNT network, the authors conducted research to explore how these state data efforts couldbring greater benefits tolocalcommunities. Interviews with child advocates and open data providers confirmed the opportunity for child advocacy organizations and state governments to leverage open data to improve the lives of children and families. But accomplishing this goal will require new practices on both sides.
The State of the Detroit Child provides community leaders with highly interactive graphics and visualizations on a wide range of factors that affect the outcomes and living conditions of Detroit's children across time and place.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
February 2020
The Pittsburgh Study will follow children in Allegheny County from birth through high school. It is the largest community-partnered intervention study to follow children over time. UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh are working in collaboration with many community organizations and institutions to complete this study.
(Inactive) Center for Economic Information* (Kansas City)
2020
In the fall of 2013, in collaboration with Children’s Mercy Hospital (CMH) of Kansas City, CEI was awarded grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for research into the relationship between environmental housing conditions and the prevalence of certain chronic childhood health conditions, specifically asthma and lead poisoning. This is a three-year initiative.
In recent years, Neighborhood Nexus has developed and maintained an innovative measure: the Child Well-Being Index. Accompanied by tailored communications tools and guidance, the index is helping funders and nonprofit organizations understand which neighborhoods in the Atlanta region have the greatest need for investment in children and families.
Urban Institute is excited to announce the NNIP partners in Boston, Durham, New Haven, and San Antonio selected through a competitive Request for Proposals for $50,000...
The Children’s Trust held a virtual community workshop, in concert with other agency partners, titled the IDEAS Synergy Event 2020, with a diverse group of 130 early childhood experts, from community agencies to interdisciplinary researchers and leading provider systems. The June 11 event began a community conversation about equity, key factors, and developing evidence to guide practices and policies. Video of the sessions is available on the event website.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
November 25, 2022
The WPRDC team has been collaborating with The Pittsburgh Study, a partnership of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh.
Related Links:
The Pittsburgh Study: Learning with Communities About Child Health and Thriving
The number of youth and young adults experiencing homelessness continues to increase in Cleveland and across the country due to personal challenges and systemic barriers, such as lack of safe and affordable housing and poverty. The Center on Poverty and Community Development (CPCD) at Case Western Reserve University partnered with the Cuyahoga County Office of Homeless Services (OHS) to analyze administrative data and to support OHS’s efforts to understand the unhoused experiences of youth in order to prevent homelessness.
The PACE Data Platform is an interactive resource for learning about Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences (ACEs and PCEs) in Connecticut. The goal of the PACE Platform is to provide ongoing, short-term, systematic ACE and PCE data for use by public health personnel, government leaders, and the public to inform youth-centered health policies and prevention strategies.
Community Information Now (CINow) supports the vision of the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County (UWSA) for a San Antonio where educational disparities by race and income disappear, families have the support they need to provide for their children, and employers eliminate gender- and race-based wage disparities.
