COMMUNITY-LEVEL INDICATORS FOR UNDERSTANDING HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES ISSUES
A COMPENDIUM OF SELECTED INDICATOR SYSTEMS AND RESOURCE
ORGANIZATIONS
Prepared for:
Office Of The Assistant Secretary For
Planning And Evaluation
U.S. Department Of Health And Human
Services
Contract Number HHS-100-99-0006
Prepared by:
Deborah Gibbs
Research Triangle
Institute
Brett Brown
Child Trends, Inc.
September 2000
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
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- INTRODUCTION
- Purpose
- Production Process
- Definition of Terms
- Context for the Current Interest in
Community-Level Social Indicators
- Users and Uses of Community-Level Social
Indicators
- Future Directions
- Format for Descriptions of Featured
Systems and Resource Organizations
- Table A - Topic Areas in Featured
Indicator Systems
- Table B - Types of Data and Smallest
Level of Geographic Aggregation in Featured Indicator Systems
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- DESCRIPTIONS OF REPRESENTATIVE INDICATOR SYSTEMS
- Community-Wide Systems
- Anchorage, Alaska - Healthy
Anchorage Indicators Project
- Cleveland, Ohio - Cleveland Area
Network for Data and Organizing
- Denver, Colorado - Neighborhood
Facts
- Jacksonville, Florida - The
Quality of Life Indicators Project and the Community Agenda Indicators
Project
- Seattle, Washington - Sustainable
Seattle
- Tucson, Arizona - The Livable Tucson
Vision Program
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- County/Region-Wide Systems
- Chittenden County, Vermont -
Champlain Initiative
- Dade and Monroe Counties, Florida -
Florida Department of Children & Families, District 11, Community Services
Planning Center
- Erie County, Pennsylvania - Health
Status Indicator Project
- Indianapolis, Indiana, Metropolitan
Statistical Area - Social Assets and Vulnerability Indicators Project
- Kansas City Metropolitan Area,
Kansas and Missouri - The Status of Children in Metro Kansas City
- Multnomah County, Oregon -
Portland-Multnomah County Benchmarks
- Pierce County, Washington - Pierce
County Quality of Life Benchmarks
- Roanoke Area, Virginia - Vital
Signs of the New Century Region
- San Diego County, California - San
Diego County Child and Family Health & Well-Being
- Southeast Texas - Community Health
Information System
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- State-Wide Systems
- California - California's
Children
- Georgia - Georgia Department of
Community Affairs Community Indicators
- Georgia - Georgia Policy Council
for Children/Family Connection
- Illinois - Illinois Project for
Local Assessment of Needs
- Massachusetts - Massachusetts
Community Health Information Profile
- Michigan - Michigan Critical Health
Indicators
- Minnesota - Minnesota Milestones
and the Children's Report Card
- New York - New York
Touchstones
- Rhode Island - Rhode Island
Unified Needs Assessment Project
- Vermont - Vermont's Framework for
Collaboration
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- RESOURCE ORGANIZATIONS
- Private Sector
Organizations
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- The Aspen Institute
- Chapin Hall Center for
Children
- Center for the Study of
Social Policy
- CityMatCH
- Hart Environmental Data
- Join Together, Inc.
- National Civic League
- Redefining Progress
- Search Institute
- UCLA Center for Healthier Children,
Families and Communities
- United Way of America
- The Urban Institute
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- Federal Agencies
- Health Resources and Services
Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- National Center for Educational
Statistics, U.S. Department of Education
- Office of Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S.
Department of Commerce
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