1. Community Assets on a Map
Using HealthyCity.org to Map Assets in Your Community
Wednesday, October 16th
10:00am-11:30am
Presenters
Janice C. Miller
Manager, Community Research Lab
jburns@advanceproj.org
Taisha Bonilla
Training and Communications Coordinator
www.Healthycity.org
Facebook.com/HealthyCityCA
@HealthyCityCA
info@healthycity.org
tbonilla@advanceproj.org
Reginald Johnson
Community Partnership Leader, First 5 LA
Best Start Watts-Willowbrook
rhjohnson@gmail.com
www.AdvancementProjectCA.org
Facebook.com/AdvancementProjectCA
info@advanceproj.org

2. How to Participate Today
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3. Share and Engage!
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We will be doing some handson live demos!
Share what you’ve learned and
created:
#Map4Change
#AssetMapping
#Wikimaps
#HealthyCity

4. Healthy City is a program of
Advancement Project is a public policy change organization rooted in the
civil rights movement. We engineer large-scale systems change to remedy
inequality, expand opportunity and open paths to upward mobility. Our goal
is that members of all communities have the safety, opportunity and health
they need to thrive.

5. Mission
Healthy City transforms how decisions are made by creating innovative tools
and methods that expose and resolve structural inequities
Purpose
Communities of every race and class have the opportunities and resources
they need to thrive
Values
Equity
Community
Transformation

6. What We Do
ONLINE MAPPING
TECHNOLOGY
www.HealthyCity.org
DIRECT TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE:
Strengthen community voice and
Work ON-THE-GROUND
action targeted
to develop
research/policy
strategies and web
tools.
Increase resources in underserved
communities of color
COMMUNITY
RESEARCH LAB
Advance equitable public polices.
Engages, trains, and
provides tools for
community groups to lead
and sustain actionoriented research

7. Who Uses
HealthyCity.org?
Case
Manager
Service
Provider
Grant
Writer
Funder
HealthyCity.org
Website
Policy
Advocate
Community
Organizer
Researcher
Fuel social change and empower communities!

8. Today you will
learn how to…

9. Use HealthyCity.org to
Identify and map community resources

10. Use HealthyCity.org to
Document community knowledge about
local resources

11. Apply these asset mapping tools to
Community engagement and advocacy

12. How can community asset maps be useful?
Identify:
+ What exists in a specific
community
+ What’s not/no longer here
+ Community Strengths
+ Opportunities for
Improvement
+ Community information
+ Mainstream information

13. What are assets?
Community Assets
Power of local associations
Resources of public, private and
non-profit institutions
Physical and economic resources
of local places
Individual Assets
Skills of local residents
The Asset-Based Community Development
Institute, Northwestern University

14. “Assets” /Services and Point Data
on HealthyCity.org
Data Name
Social Services
Public & Private Schools
WIC Agencies & Vendors
Hospitals (OSHPD)
Head Start Agencies
Child Care
Federally Qualified Health Centers
(FQHC)
Grocery Stores
Banks
Source
211s
California Department of Education
Network for a Healthy California
OSHPD
California Head Start Association
Department of Social Services
Community Care Licensing Division
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services Health Resources and
Services Administration
DeLorme
DeLorme

15. “Communities”/ Geographies on HealthyCity.org
Types of Geographies Available on HC.org
Address/Intersection
Consolidated Precinct
Census block group and tract
ZIP Code
City
Assembly District
Senate District
Congressional District
County
Place Based Initiatives (including The California Endowment Building Healthy Communities and First
5 Los Angeles Best Start Communities)
Los Angeles (and other Counties) Area Boundaries (including Service Planning Areas, L.A.
County Health Districts, and School Attendance Boundaries, Board of Supervisors, L.A. City Council)

17. Using HealthyCity.org to
Identify and map community resources

18. Scenario
You’re a Homeless Services
Liaison searching for Basic
Needs resources
(food, shelter, etc.) available in
San Bernardino County.

19. What are your target areas?

20. Select your
geography!

21. “Communities”/ Geographies on HealthyCity.org
Types of Geographies Available on HC.org
Address/Intersection
Consolidated Precinct
Census block group and tract
ZIP Code
City
Assembly District
Senate District
Congressional District
County
Place Based Initiatives (including The California Endowment Building Healthy Communities and First
5 Los Angeles Best Start Communities)
Los Angeles (and other Counties) Area Boundaries (including Service Planning Areas, L.A.
County Health Districts, and School Attendance Boundaries, Board of Supervisors, L.A. City Council)

22. Click on a category
to add data to your
map
data to your map

23. “Assets” /Services and Point Data
on HealthyCity.org
Data Name
Social Services
Public & Private Schools
WIC Agencies & Vendors
Hospitals (OSHPD)
Head Start Agencies
Child Care
Federally Qualified Health Centers
(FQHC)
Grocery Stores
Banks
•Over 2,500 variables!
•Multiple years & levels available
Source
211s
California Department of Education
Network for a Healthy California
OSHPD
California Head Start Association
Department of Social Services
Community Care Licensing Division
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services Health Resources and
Services Administration
DeLorme
DeLorme

24. Click on a “Keyword
Search”
to pinpoint data for
your map

26. List the services
ONLY within the area
you’ve selected
You can get Google
MapBrowse through
directions for
your client
listings to look at
service details

27. PRINT list of
services
SAVE this list for
future reference
EMAIL a link to
SHARE this map
this list of
& start a
services
conversation
with your Social
Networks

30. Questions?
Your Turn!
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Live Demo (Name, Org, Area, One Type
of Asset You’re Interested in)
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Create an account
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Map a service in your target area
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Save, print or share your map

31. To Upload Data from
a Spreadsheet:
Log in to your
account

32. Click on Upload a
Dataset

38. Using HealthyCity.org to
Document community knowledge about
local resources

39. Participatory Asset Mapping
A process where community
members collectively create
asset maps by identifying
and providing the
information about their own
community’s assets on a
map.
Participatory Asset Mapping Toolkit, pg. 6

40. Community-Engaged Mapping
A focus group around a map;
A group mapping exercise
designed to answer specific
research questions and gather
resident feedback to develop
place-based planning strategies.
Participatory Asset Mapping Toolkit, pg. 10

41. Wikimap
A collaborative mapping tool
on HealthyCity.org that you
can use to share and add
community knowledge,
points, photos, and videos.
Participatory Asset Mapping Toolkit, Pg. 22
With Wikimaps, you can:
•Share with others to add
points, data, and media.
•Create a story to share
•Print and share on
Facebook and Twitter!

48. Questions?
Your Turn!
Do you know of a resource
in this community that we
could add to the map?
Type it in the chat box and
we will add it to the map!

49. Applying these asset mapping tools to
Community engagement and advocacy

50. Community-Engaged Mapping in Watts-Willowbrook

53. Video Voice Mapping in West San Fernando Valley
and Ventura County

57. Additional Tools
&
Resources!

58. English | Español
v5.healthycity.org

63. Upcoming
Events
FAQ Friday! Call in with
questions
Friday, October 18th
11:00am-12:00pm

67. THANK YOU!!!
Thank You!
Your feedback is very
important to us!
We will be following up
with you in 24 hours with
an email and a survey!