In March 2017, the Milwaukee-based organization Data You Can Use held a convening focused on utilizing local health data with two dozen community organizers, residents, city health department staff, local United Way representatives, and health care practitioners. Katie Pritchard, from Data You Can Use, explained that the two-hour interactive session highlighted 500 Cities Data as an example of an interactive health data tool that can produce maps for the local level.
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.
To launch the 500 Cities Project data release, on December 6 and 7, 2016, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funded and organized an evening reception and day-long conference in Dallas, Texas, cohosted along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the CDC Foundation.
Urban Institute recently released two new guidance documents to to build the capacity of communities to use data to address health and improve fair housing and access to opportunity. Both guides draw on the experiences of NNIP and its Partner organizations.
Neighborhood Nexus, the NNIP Partner in Atlanta, is one of ten winners of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 500 Cities Challenge. Neighborhood Nexus is a project of the Atlanta Regional Commission and the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta.
As part of the 500 Cities Data Challenge, Neighborhood Nexus’s Georgia Healthy Cities project from June 2018 to May 2019 created Health and Wellness Toolkits to help break the health services silo and facilitate cooperation across sectors to tackle the upstream factors impacting health.
They worked with four cities representing four distinct geographic areas of Georgia: Albany, Atlanta, Columbus and Savannah. For each city, Neighborhood Nexus offered:
Data Chats are small, community conversations about data designed to draw out residents’ perspectives and interpretations. They center the knowledge, community understanding, and experiences of people who live in a neighborhood as much as quantitative data.
Community Information Now (CINow) (San Antonio) Data Driven Detroit (D3) (Detroit) University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh) Neighborhood Nexus (Atlanta) DataWorks NC (Durham)
March 1, 2022
The CDC Foundation has awarded five NNIP partners a $125,000 grant to participate in a multi-city initiative to promote equitable data use for healthy communities. Grantees include Neighborhood Nexus (Atlanta, GA); Data Driven Detroit (Detroit, MI), DataWorks NC (Durham, NC), Community Information Now (San Antonio, TX) and The University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh, PA).
Earlier this month, DataHaven and the Fairfield County, Greater Hartford, and Greater New Haven Community Foundations hosted a statewide event to release these landmark publications on quality of life. Each book contains nearly 100 pages of data graphics, maps, and tables, discussing the most meaningful social and economic issues that face Connecticut today, including family economic security, housing, health and safety, criminal justice, education, and much more.
Contact:
Mark Abraham
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DataHaven and partners release the 2023 Community Wellbeing Index at the Connecticut State Capitol
The DataHaven Town Equity Reports provide access to relevant town-level information that is not available from any other source. They use new methods to disaggregate data from the 2020 Census, American Community Survey microdata files, DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey record-level files from 2015 through 2021, and federal and state agency databases.
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2023 Equity Reports for all 169 Connecticut Towns, Join our statewide Advisory Council
