Child and Youth Well-being
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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. ... [read more]
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... [read more]
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance (Baltimore)
(Inactive) Thoughtwell (Columbus)
Urban Strategies Council (Oakland)
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
On November 5, 2015, Dr. Claudia Coulton presented the talk "Exploring the Impact of Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Involvement on Future... [read more]
In an editorial to the Cleveland Plain Dealer on November 1, Poverty Center Co-Director Dr. Rob Fischer discussed the magnitude of the... [read more]
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... [read more]
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 In an unpublished report completed in June, Case Western Reserve University and Invest in Children examined the effect of lead poisoning... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County... [read more]
On behalf a broad collaborative of organizations convened by the United Way of Comal County, CI:Now is conducting a broad secondary data ... [read more]
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... [read more]
SA2020 is a community visioning and collective impact initiative focused on 11 cause areas. CI:Now collects and analyzes the data to... [read more]
CI:Now does supplemental mapping and analysis of San Antonio’s growing bank of neighborhood-level kinder-readiness data from the ... [read more]
How does living amid foreclosures, vacant properties, and declining neighborhood stability affect how well a child does in school?
Funded by the... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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. ... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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,... [read more]
CI:Now was awarded a one-year $50,000 operating grant from the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation to support child data integration and... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
Floodlight: See and show your community in a new light
Your story matters. Without it, nothing happens. Floodlight is a new, free web-based storytelling project that gives... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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... [read more]
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