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Janice C. MillerManager, Community Research Labjburns@advanceproj.org

Community Assets on a MapUsing HealthyCity.org to Map Assets in Your Community

Wednesday, October 16th 10:00am-11:30am

Taisha BonillaTraining and Communications

Coordinatortbonilla@advanceproj.org

Presenters

Reginald JohnsonCommunity Partnership Leader, First 5

LA Best Start Watts-Willowbrookrhjohnson@gmail.com

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

Open/minimize Firefox:We will be doing some hands-on live demos!

Share what you’ve learned and created: #Map4Change#AssetMapping#Wikimaps#HealthyCity

Share and Engage!

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Advancement Project is a public policy change organization rooted in the civil rights movement. We engineer large-scale systems change to remedy inequality, expand opportunity and open paths to upward mobility. Our goal is that members of all communities have the safety, opportunity and health they need to thrive.

MissionHealthy City transforms how decisions are made by creating innovative tools and methods that expose and resolve structural inequities

PurposeCommunities of every race and class have the opportunities and resources they need to thrive

ValuesEquityCommunityTransformation

What We Do

DIRECT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE:

Work ON-THE-GROUND to develop

targeted research/policy

strategies and web tools.

COMMUNITY RESEARCH LAB

Engages, trains, and provides tools for

community groups to lead and sustain action-oriented

research

ONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGY

www.HealthyCity.org

Strengthen community voice and action

Increase resources in underserved communities of

color

Advance equitable public polices.

Fuel social change and empower communities!

HealthyCity.orgWebsite

Service Provider

Case Manager

Policy Advocate

Funder

Community Organizer

Researcher

Who Uses HealthyCity.org?

Grant Writer

Today you will learn how to…

Identify and map community resources

Use HealthyCity.org to

Document community knowledge about local resources

Use HealthyCity.org to

Apply these asset mapping tools to

Community engagement and advocacy

How can community asset maps be useful?

Identify:

+ What exists in a specific community+ What’s not/no longer here

+ Community Strengths+ Opportunities for Improvement

+ Community information+ Mainstream information

Community AssetsPower of local associations Resources of public, private and non-profit institutions

Physical and economic resources of local places

Individual AssetsSkills of local residents

The Asset-Based Community Development Institute, Northwestern

University

What are assets?

Data Name SourceSocial Services 211s

Public & Private Schools California Department of EducationWIC Agencies & Vendors Network for a Healthy CaliforniaHospitals (OSHPD) OSHPDHead Start Agencies California Head Start AssociationChild Care Department of Social Services

Community Care Licensing DivisionFederally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration

Grocery Stores DeLorme Banks DeLorme

“Assets” /Services and Point Data on HealthyCity.org

“Communities”/ Geographies on HealthyCity.org

Types of Geographies Available on HC.org

Address/IntersectionConsolidated PrecinctCensus block group and tractZIP CodeCityAssembly DistrictSenate DistrictCongressional DistrictCountyPlace Based Initiatives (including The California Endowment Building Healthy Communities and First 5 Los Angeles Best Start Communities)

Los Angeles (and other Counties) Area Boundaries (including Service Planning Areas, L.A. County Health Districts, and School Attendance Boundaries, Board of Supervisors, L.A. City Council)

Identify and map community resources

Using HealthyCity.org to

ScenarioYou’re a Homeless Services Liaison searching for Basic

Needs resources (food, shelter, etc.) available in San Bernardino County.

What are your target areas?

Select your

geography!

“Communities”/ Geographies on HealthyCity.org

Types of Geographies Available on HC.org

Address/IntersectionConsolidated PrecinctCensus block group and tractZIP CodeCityAssembly DistrictSenate DistrictCongressional DistrictCountyPlace Based Initiatives (including The California Endowment Building Healthy Communities and First 5 Los Angeles Best Start Communities)

Los Angeles (and other Counties) Area Boundaries (including Service Planning Areas, L.A. County Health Districts, and School Attendance Boundaries, Board of Supervisors, L.A. City Council)

Click on a category

to add data to your map

data to your map

•Over 2,500 variables!•Multiple years & levels available

Data Name SourceSocial Services 211s

Public & Private Schools California Department of EducationWIC Agencies & Vendors Network for a Healthy CaliforniaHospitals (OSHPD) OSHPDHead Start Agencies California Head Start AssociationChild Care Department of Social Services

Community Care Licensing DivisionFederally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration

Grocery Stores DeLorme Banks DeLorme

“Assets” /Services and Point Data on HealthyCity.org

Click on a “Keyword Search”

to pinpoint data for your map

List the services ONLY within the

area you’ve selected

Browse through listings to look at

service details

You can get Google Map

directions for your client

SAVE this list for future reference

PRINT list of services

EMAIL a link to this list of services

SHARE this map & start a conversation

with your Social

Networks

Your Turn!• Live Demo (Name, Org, Area, One

Type of Asset You’re Interested in)

• Create an account

• Map a service in your target area

• Save, print or share your map

Questions?

To Upload Data from a

Spreadsheet: Log in to your

account

Click on Upload a Dataset

Document community knowledge about local resources

Using HealthyCity.org to

Participatory Asset Mapping

A process where community members

collectively create asset maps by identifying and

providing the information about their

own community’s assets on a map.

Participatory Asset Mapping Toolkit, pg. 6

Community-Engaged Mapping

A focus group around a map;

A group mapping exercise designed to answer specific

research questions and gather resident feedback to

develop place-based planning strategies.

Participatory Asset Mapping Toolkit, pg. 10

WikimapA collaborative mapping tool on HealthyCity.org

that you can use to share and add

community knowledge, points, photos, and

videos.Participatory Asset Mapping Toolkit, Pg.

22

With Wikimaps, you can:

• Share with others to add points, data, and media.

• Create a story to share

• Print and share on Facebook and Twitter!

Your Turn!

Do you know of a resource in this community that we could add to the map?Type it in the chat box and we will add it to the map!

Questions?

Applying these asset mapping tools to

Community engagement and advocacy

Community-Engaged Mapping in Watts-Willowbrook

Video Voice Mapping in West San Fernando Valley and Ventura County

Additional Tools

&

Resources!

English | Español

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Upcoming Events

FAQ Friday! Call in with questionsFriday, October 18th

11:00am-12:00pm

Thank You!THANK YOU!!!

Your feedback is very important to

us!

We will be following up with you in 24

hours with an email and a survey!