using healthycity.org to upload your own data for planning and policy change

Using HealthyCity.org to upload your own data for planning and

policy change

Information + action for social change

How to Participate Today

• Open and close your Panel

• View, Select, and Test your audio

• Type in a question at ANY time during the webinar. We will pause throughout to respond

• Everyone will receive an email within 24 hours with additional help tools and a link to a survey. Please fill out the survey with your feedback from this session

Question for Participants

What are you hoping to get our of today’s webinar?

(Type it in the question section)

Healthy City is a project of…

A public policy change organization rooted in the civil

rights movement

…is an information + action resource that unites rigorous research, community voices and innovative technologies

to solve the root causes of social inequity

COMMUNITY RESEARCH LAB

Training community groups to lead and sustain action-oriented research &

technology projects

ONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGYwww.HealthyCity.org

DIRECT TECHNICAL SUPPORT :

Work ON-THE-GROUND to develop targeted research/policy strategies

and web tools

• Find community resources and partners• Map, Chart & Rank community data• Upload data & Share your community’s story

HealthyCity.org is a statewide resources that enables you to:

Types of Data on HealthyCity.org

Services & PointsSocial Services & NonprofitsHospitals and FQHCsPublic & Private SchoolsGrocery Stores & WIC VendorsAlcohol Outlets & Toxic SitesAnd much more…

Types of Data on HealthyCity.org

ThematicPopulation Characteristics Civic ParticipationEmployment, Income & PovertyHealth Conditions, Diseases,

Injuries and DeathsCrime & Public SafetyHousingAnd much more…

“Point” & “Thematic” Data

Time to share…

What are you hoping to get our of today’s webinar?

Today you will learn how to:

1. How to add your data and visualize it on HealthyCity.org.

2. Map your data with additional data in order to tell your communities story and assist in policy development and program planning.

Types of Data

Primary: Original data collected by the ‘researcher’ specifically for a purpose.

Secondary: Data that have been collected for another purpose and now available for other ‘researchers’ to use for their purposes.

‘Researcher’ can be community residents, community based organizations, or academic institutions

Why collect Primary data

- Secondary data is not available- Verify secondary data (ie. Ground-truth

data)- Necessary to tell your story

Ways to collect Primary data

-Focus Groups-Interviews-Surveys in the Field (assessments)-Participatory Mapping

Time to share…

What methods have you used to collect data?

(Poll)

Map your data to see what is available/not available.

For example…

Outdoor Exercise Equipment at local parks

To increase physical activity in local communities and combat the rise in obesity rates, there has been an increase in the number of outdoor exercise equipment at existing local parks.

The Trust for Public Land has developed Fitness Zones where outdoor exercise equipment is donated to local parks. http://www.tpl.org/what-we-do/initiatives/parks-for-people/fitnesszones.html

Outdoor Exercise Equipment at local parks example (continued)

Research question:Is there outdoor exercise equipment at local parks in my council district?

Choose a method

-Focus Groups-Interviews-Surveys in the Field (assessments)-Participatory Mapping

Create an excel file

You’ll need to register for

or Log in to your account

Click on Upload a Dataset

Click the +- next to point

data category

Outdoor Exercise Equipment at local parks example (continued)

Now that we have identified the local parks with outdoor exercise equipment, let’s use secondary data to enhance your story around the need for more equipment in your community…

Pause for Questions

Share how you plan to or how you have mapped data you’ve

collected.(Type it in the question section)

Additional resources for primary data collection

Wikimaps Multiple people add points to the same map. Points could include descriptions, photos, and videos.

Community Participatory Action Research ToolboxEnglish and Spanish Toolkits and guides for- Participatory Asset Mapping- Community Research- Communications- Community Organizing

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Thank You!Keep connected with Healthy City:

Jonathan Nomachi – jnomachi@advanceproj.org