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This customized webinar is for individuals working in Community Planning & Development that are interested in learning new strategies and tools to create healthier living environments in our communities. Working within a social justice framework, this webinar will demonstrate useful practices for planners utilizing the HealthyCity.org website. It will focus on how to use HealthyCity.org to promote a deeper understanding of community assets, characteristics, and the physical environment in order to inform and enhance the planning process. It will also highlight successful methods to engage community members in planning efforts, particularly around sharing local knowledge about the built environment.
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for Community Planning for Community Planning and Developmentand Development
Information + action for social change
A national civil rights policy/action tank
Mapping Data Provides Visual Evidence for• Community Issues & Needs• Community Knowledge• Coordination• Locating Assets and Gaps• Planning • Policy/Advocacy
http://www.npsp.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1608
What you can do on Healthy City.org• Find potential partners
• Map, chart data
• Create community profiles
• Gather community input on proposed projects
• Upload data and information to share and package
• View what others are working on and share your projects or collaborate
• Find services and partners
HealthyCity.org is a statewide resources that enables you to:
•Map, Chart & Rank community data
HealthyCity.org is a statewide resources that enables you to:
•Upload data & Share your community’s story
HealthyCity.org is a statewide resources that enables you to:
Mapping & charting community data to
demonstrate need and advocate for planning
Map Example #1:
There are concerns about environmental hazards related to a planned development. Are
there schools located near this site?
Click Change to select the Geography of Interest
Add schools to your map
Share your map via Facebook
Map Example #2:
Where are there renters in Sacramento? Where are there vacant units? Are there opportunities
for redevelopment here?
Click the +- buttons to add
Data to your map
Are there vacant units in high renter areas?
Mapping & charting community data to
demonstrate the need and advocate for resources
Questions?
Additional features on HealthyCity.org
A few HealthyCity.org Advanced Features
• Upload your own Point & Thematic Datasets
• Draw your own neighborhood boundaries
• Collect community input with Wikimaps
Upload your own Point OR Thematic Datasets
Create an Excel Spreadsheet with up to 1000 points
*Save as Excel 97-2003 workbook*
Upload your own Thematic Datasets
Draw your own neighborhood boundaries
A Wikimap enables multiple people to :
• Draw and drop points, lines, and shapes on a shared map • Attach photos & video
Create Wiki - Mapping Sessions
(with Pictures, Video & Audio)
…answer specific research questions What are the research questions that
you want to answer?
…gather community member feedbackHow will you gather feedback? From
which community members?
…develop place-based strategiesHow will you use this to inform your
strategies?
Community-Engaged Mapping Key Information Needed To…
Safe Passages to School
Community-engaged mapping was used to help answer the following research questions:
• What areas in the community do students and parents feel most unsafe?
• What routes do students and parents travel to and from school?
• What are the environmental design issues in this area that might contribute to not feeling safe and/or a lack of personal security?
Safe Passages to School
Students and parents were able to discuss and share locations of unsafe places, routes taken to school, and what environmental design issues they felt contributed to the lack of safety
Safe Passages to School
Key Advantages: • data entry during the event • multiple computers can enter data simultaneously• results, patterns, etc. from participants can be seen and discussed immediately
Questions?
…is an information + action resource that unites rigorous research, community voices and innovative
technologies to solve the root causes of social inequity
COMMUNITY RESEARCH LABCOMMUNITY RESEARCH LAB
Training community groups to lead and sustain action-oriented research &
technology projects
COMMUNITY RESEARCH LABCOMMUNITY RESEARCH LAB
Training community groups to lead and sustain action-oriented research &
technology projects
ONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGYONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGYwww.HealthyCity.orgwww.HealthyCity.org
ONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGYONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGYwww.HealthyCity.orgwww.HealthyCity.org
Thank You!
DIRECT TECHNICAL SUPPORT DIRECT TECHNICAL SUPPORT :
Work ON-THE-GROUND to develop targeted research/policy strategies
and web tools
DIRECT TECHNICAL SUPPORT DIRECT TECHNICAL SUPPORT :
Work ON-THE-GROUND to develop targeted research/policy strategies
and web tools
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