About
Putting Youth on the Map (PYOM) is a powerful information resource for youth and adults working to ensure youth well-being in California.
Who can use this?
- Everyone—youth and adult advocates, service providers, private foundations, public agencies and policy-makers—can use PYOM to identify leverage points for improving opportunity, develop multi-sector multi-issue collaborations, and hold themselves accountable for collectively improving conditions.
How can you do it?
Check out the different sections of this site to get the most out of PYOM:
- Navigate
- View tutorials and get assistance to familiarize yourself with PYOM and its features.
- Action Resouces
- Find curricula, activities and examples to help youth and adults build their capacity to effectively use data maps.
- Connect with participatory mapping tools and other youth data sites.
- See how youth across California have been using PYOM to support their advocacy efforts.
- Data
- Learn all about our indices, data sources, and statewide equity analyses.
- Download the data used in our maps.
- Go to Maps
- Explore, print, and share all of our interactive data maps.
Partners
To develop this website, Nancy Erbstein (Assistant Research Professor, UC Davis Department of Human Ecology) led a team including:
UC Davis Center for Regional Change Staff
- Valerie Chiappone (Admiistrative Support)
- Sergio Cuellar (Outreach, Curriculum Development and Training)
- Diane Godard (Data Support)
- Teri Greenfield (GIS and Website Development)
- Cassie Hartzog (Index Development and Data Analysis)
- Mindy Romero (Youth Vote data collection and analyses)
- Sara Watterson (GIS and Website Development)
- Krystyna von Henneberg (Website Development)
UC Davis Faculty
- Estella Geraghty, Associate Professor, UC Davis Medical Center Department of Internal Medicine (Index Development and GIS)
- Jonathan London, Assistant Professor, UC Davis Department of Human Ecology (Center for Regional Change Director)
UC Davis Students
- Hyeyeung Cho (Data Collection)
- Beth Hart (Outreach)
- Yohei Kato (Design and Outreach)
- Irvis Orozco (Outreach, Beta Testing)
- Shrayas Jatkar (Outreach, Training)
- Meghan Jordan (Website Design)
- Bidita Tithi (Outreach)
Thanks also to students who attended beta testing sessions and students in Chicano Studies 132 (Professor Gloria Rodriguez) who provided feedback on the website.
UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Affiliates
- David Ginsburg (initial website design)
- Charles Go (initial website design)
- Russell Hill (initial website design, ANR outreach)
- Anna Martin (initial website design, ANR outreach)
- Fe Moncloa (initial website design)
- Terri Spezzano (initial website design, ANR outreach)
- Constance Schneider (initial website design, ANR outreach)
- Steven Worker/4-H Youth Technology Leadership Team (initial website design)
- Dennis Carrasquilla (logo design)
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