Resources
Check out the ROI's resources below:
Links
Check out other maps at the Center for Regional Change, including Putting Youth on the Map.
Civic Engagement
- The California Civic Engagement Project is a civic engagement research and outreach initiative for the state of California whose work supports inclusive civic engagement as a critical factor in overcoming disparities in social and economic well-being.
Education
- The California Department of Education’s DataQuest provides reports about California’s schools and school districts.
- The California Healthy Kids Resource Center maintains links to data sources and interactive data tools
- The National Center for Education Statistics mapping tool allows users to view maps of states and school districts, while overlaying statistics on population and housing, race and ethnicity, economics and social characteristics.
Health
- AskCHIS allows you to search for health statistics on your county, region and state.
- The California Adolescent Health Data Set provides data about the health status of adolescents.
- California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal provides access to health data and maps.
- California Vital Statistics website allows the download of birth and death records by ZIP code from the California Department of Public Health records system.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Youth Risk behavior surveillance system (YRBSS).
- County Health Rankings and Roadmaps (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).
- Health Profiles present CHIS estimates to track changes in insurance status, disease, health behaviors and overall health status over time.
- SAMHSA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the US Dept. of Health and Human Services provides data on substance use and mental health in California and the US.
- UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy provide city level data on overweight and obesity in California in this report.
Physical and Built Environment
- Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment provides data and data maps related to hazardous environmental exposures.
- SmartLocation Database provides interactive maps and data for measuring the built environment.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Enviroatlas provides information about ecosystem health, including clean air/water, recreational opportunities, and protection from severe weather.
Transportation
- Links to come
Multiple Data Types
- American FactFinder is a portal to U.S. Census Bureau datasets and economic surveys. You can map the data or download it.
- Community Commons allows you to make maps with existing data, upload your own data and generate community health reports.
- ChildrenNow.org hosts the 2010 California County Scorecard of Children's Well-Being. It tracks 26 interrelated indicators of children's well-being for each of California's 58 counties.
- DiversityData and DiversityDataKids provide maps with various equity analyses.
- This interactive mapping tool allows users to locate federally supported youth programs in a community.
- HealthyCity.org provides current data, maps, and service referrals for California at many different geographic levels, including census block group and school district, on an online platform.
- Kidsdata.org includes data about the health and well being of children across California. The site offers data for every city, county, and school district in the state.
- Measure of America offers several mapping tools, including a Human Development Index and a tool for forecasting potential effects of educational improvement.
- National Equity Atlas A comprehensive data resource to track, measure, and make the case for inclusive growth.
- Policy Map lets users create maps using public data layers that can be shared and saved.
We’ll periodically be updating this list, so please send additional resources to crcinfo@ucdavis.edu.
Stories
Smart Valley Places Consortium: Promoting Equitable Planning in the San Joaquin Valley
In 2010, the Smart Valley Places Consortium (SVPC) brought together 14 cities and four regional non-profit entities in the San Joaquin Valley to promote sustainable planning, community engagement, and regional integration. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as part of a Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant. The consortium encouraged investment in transportation, affordable housing, healthy and walkable communities, and sustainable economic development planning.
In 2015, as part of this initiative, the SVPC partnered with the California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH) to assess the availability of housing in the valley. They used the Regional Opportunity Index to identify patterns of racial and economic segregation and propose strategies for more creating equitable and integrated communities. Drawing on this data, the SVPC and CCRH showed that White residents of the San Joaquin Valley were nearly twice as likely as Latino and Black residents to live in neighborhoods with high levels of employment, educational attainment, and access to health care, as well as low poverty and pollution levels. The team recommended that each neighborhood seek to provide high-quality housing for residents of all income levels, and engage in comprehensive, collaborative community planning and development.
For more details, see the 2014 report by Maya Abood of the California Coalition for Rural Housing, entitled San Joaquin Valley Fair Housing and Equity Assessment.
Sierra Health Foundation Analysis
The CRC authored a report for the Sierra Health Foundation identifying the places and populations in the San Joaquin Valley that exhibit the highest need for investment. Using the Regional Opportunity Index, the report and resulting maps provide an overview of social, economic, political and other disparities across the region. They also offer a detailed analysis of conditions in the areas of Stockton, Modesto/Merced, Fresno, and Visalia. The goal of this analysis is to encourage balanced investment strategies that can promote equity and prosperity throughout the valley.
Click here to view a copy of the report.
