how to use healthycity.org to influence policy
DESCRIPTION
These slides are from a webinar designed to demonstrate how to use HealthyCity.org to inform and communicate your advocacy and policy goals. Integrating the data and tools available on HealthyCity.org into your organizational advocacy and policy strategies can broaden efforts to influence decision-making at the local, state, and federal level. In this training you will learn how to: - Research relevant resources and data throughout California such as demographic, health, education, and housing to inform your organizational policy proposals. - Create maps and charts that can visually communicate your advocacy message to impact policy decisions. - Gather data to enhance on-the-ground knowledge of the community’s perspective and needs in relation to specific policy proposals and decisions. - Connect communities, advocates, and decision-makers to information and data to stimulate action for policy change.TRANSCRIPT
How to Use HealthyCity.org toInfluence Policy
Information + action for social change
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
DIRECT TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO:
COMMUNITY ORGSFOUNDATIONSGOVERNMENT
COMMUNITY RESEARCH LAB
Training community groups to lead and sustain action-oriented research &
technology projects
ONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGYwww.HealthyCity.org
PartnersChildren’s Hospital Los AngelesAdvancement ProjectUSC School of Social Work 2-1-1 LA CountyUnited Ways of CaliforniaChildren NowCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health NetworkElla Baker Center for Human RightsPrevention InstituteThe California EndowmentLegal Services of No. Cal.CA Immigrant Policy CenterCA PartnershipCalifornia Rural Legal AssistanceCentral Valley Health Policy InstituteFresno Metro MinistryUnited Way Fresno CountyFirst 5 Fresno CountySacramento Housing AllianceUC Davis – Center for Regional ChangeCommunity Services Planning Council
United Way Bay Area
Santa Clara Comm. Benefits CoalitionUrban Strategies CouncilSan Mateo Healthy Communities CollaborativeContra Costa Crisis CenterUnited Way of Fresno/2-1-12-1-1 San Diego2-1-1 Monterey County2-1-1 San BernardinoVolunteer Center of Riverside CountyUnited Way Bay Area/HelplinkCommunity Service Planning Council – 2-1-1 SacramentoUW Silicon Valley/Santa Clara Eden I & R – 211 AlamedaInterface Children Family Services – 2-1-1 VenturaVolunteer Center of Sonoma County
…to fuel social change and improve our communities
HealthyCity.orgWebsite
Service Provider
Case Manager
Policy Advocate
Funder
Community Organizer
Researcher
Who Uses HealthyCity.org?
Grant Writer
What’s on HealthyCity.org?
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
Question for Participants
What campaigns or projects are you working on that might benefit from
data and/or mapping?(Type it in the question section)
Today you will learn how to:
1. Research relevant resources and data throughout California to inform your policy proposals.
2. Create maps and charts that can visually communicate your advocacy message to impact policy decisions.
3. Gather on-the-ground knowledge of the community’s perspective and needs in relation to specific policy proposals and decisions.
4. Connect communities, advocates, and decision-makers to information to stimulate action for policy change.
You can save and share anything you
create while logged in
GET STARTED!
1.
Research relevant resources and
data
Click the +- buttons
to add data to your map
Add 2nd layer of data
Save your Map
Learn about our data sources
Research relevant data
Questions?
2.Create maps and charts that can
visually communicate your advocacy message to impact
policy decisions.
Click on Change to select your geography
Print your map
Homicide by Firearms &
Youth Development Services
Homicide by Firearms &
Public Schools
Compare District overall to a high need ZIP
Visual Evidence for Advocacy
Create maps and charts to visually communicate
your message
Questions?
Time to share…
What campaigns or projects are you working on that might benefit from data and/or
mapping?
3.Gather on-the-ground
knowledge of the community’s perspective
and needs
Simulated Example:
“Fresh Food for our Families” in Coachella
Goals of this imagined network:
Promote healthier food options in Coachella by
gathering community knowledge to
influence policy
You’ll need to be logged in to your account
A Live Map enables multiple people to :
• Draw and drop points, lines, and shapes on a shared map
• Attach photos & video
Click to see comment & photo
Gather on-the-ground knowledge of the
community’s perspective and needs
Questions?
4.Connect communities, advocates,
and decision-makers to information to stimulate action
for policy change.
Start adding “pages” to your Story
Your live map is now part of your
StoryYour story can have links to other websites
Connect communities, advocates, and decision-makers to information to stimulate action
for policy change.
Questions?
Help is Available:
Click on • Healthy City User
Guideor
• FAQs
Thank You!