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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3. Mapping Data Provides
Visual Evidence for
• Community Issues & Needs
• Community Knowledge
• Coordination
• Locating Assets and Gaps
• Planning
• Policy/Advocacy

5. http://www.npsp.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1608

7. 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

8. HealthyCity.org is a statewide
resources that enables you to:
• Find services and partners

9. HealthyCity.org is a statewide
resources that enables you to:
•Map, Chart & Rank community data

10. HealthyCity.org is a statewide
resources that enables you to:
•Upload data & Share your community’s story

11. Mapping & charting
community data to
demonstrate need and
advocate for planning

12. Map Example #1:
There are concerns about environmental
hazards related to a planned development. Are
there schools located near this site?

13. Click Change to select the
Geography of Interest

14. Add schools to your
map

19. Share your map via
Facebook

20. Map Example #2:
Where are there renters in Sacramento? Where
are there vacant units? Are there opportunities
for redevelopment here?

21. Click the +- buttons
to add
Data to your map

23. Are there vacant units in
high renter areas?

35. Mapping & charting
community data to
demonstrate the need and
advocate for resources
Questions?

36. Additional features
on HealthyCity.org

37. A few HealthyCity.org
Advanced Features
• Upload your own Point & Thematic
Datasets
• Draw your own neighborhood
boundaries
• Collect community input with Wikimaps

39. Upload your own Point OR Thematic Datasets

40. Create an Excel Spreadsheet
with up to
1000 points
*Save as Excel 97-2003
workbook*

41. Upload your own
Thematic Datasets

42. Draw your own neighborhood boundaries

44. Create Wiki - Mapping Sessions
(with Pictures, Video & Audio)
A Wikimap enables multiple people to
:
• Draw and drop points, lines, and shapes
on a shared map
• At ch phot &v
ta os ideo

46. Community-Engaged Mapping
Key Information Needed To…
… answer sp ecific research questions
What are the research questions that you want to
answer?
… gather com m unity m em b er feed b ack
How will you gather feedback? From which
community members?
… d evelop p lace-b ased strategies
How will you use this to inform your strategies?

47. 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?

48. 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

49. 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

51. Questions?

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ONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGY DIRECT TECHNICAL SUPPORT :
www.HealthyCity.org Work ON-THE-GROUND to develop
targeted research/policy strategies
and web tools
COMMUNITY RESEARCH LAB
Training community groups to lead
and sustain action-oriented research &
technology projects