(Inactive) Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies (Chattanooga)
May 2011
The Ochs Center has contracted with the Hamilton County Department of Human Services to evaluate the first year of the Crisis Intervention Team Program, which is focused training law enforcement to respond properly to call involving mental health patients.
HealthyCity.org is a webtool that brings together community indicator data, service assets, mapping technology, and interactive commentary to allow residents to examine and share information about their community.
The Behavioral Health Network of Greater St. Louis (BHN) Board of Directors identified the expansion of safe, affordable housing and supportive service options for persons with behavioral health needs as one of its top strategic priorities for 2011-2012.
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Behavioral Health Network Regional Housing Collaborative
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.
Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC) is developing an Automated Disease Surveillance (ADS) program using Stata statistical software. In addition to being able to analyze the health data of multiple record types (e.g., deaths, surveys, hospital discharge), the program also produces summary reports in various formats such as pdf, html or in an export format for use in data visualization packages such as Socrata. Reports can include tables, maps, charts, or other graphics as desired. PHSKC is developing the ADS program collaboratively, enabling multiple PHSKC epidemiologists to
CI:Now is conducting a multi-year evaluation of the impact and cost-effectiveness of an innovative collaborative model to provide the right care at the right time to people who are living with serious behavioral conditions that, along with poverty, previous trauma, and other challenges, drive high utilization of the local emergency room and inpatient safety net and the criminal justice system.
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:
Researchers from UT Dallas are partnering with Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support and the Conference on Crimes Against Women (CCAW) in a planning grant to develop an institute and an educational curriculum to better serve victims of domestic violence across Texas. The 18-month grant brings together the Genesis team and UT Dallas’ Institute for Urban Policy Research (IUPR) to analyze all aspects of developing an Institute for Coordinated Community Response.
The Urban Health Collaborative is working with the Home Preservation Initiative (HPI), a collaborative effort that aims to provide high quality and cost-effective home repairs, to demonstrate the health effects of their home repair programs in four neighborhoods in West Philadelphia.
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The Influence of the Home Preservation Initiative on the health of Mantua Residents
This webinar shows how you can mobilize community action on health through hosting a local event centered on the new 500 Cities neighborhood-level health data.
In December 2016, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the CDC Foundation released the 500 Cities dataset - estimates of adult chronic disease, unhealthy behaviors, and preventive care for census tracts in 500 of the largest American cities.
