Healthy City's Community Research Lab (CRL) shares best practices and methods for community-based organizations interested in supporting their strategies with research that combines community knowledge + Healthy City technology. The CRL is a resource for collaborating, networking, learning, and innovating with community-based organizations to lead and sustain research for social change. Using the Community Based Participatory Action Research framework, we partner with organizations to develop, implement, and disseminate community research projects, tools, and workshops. Earlier this year, we received a two-year grant to provide our CRL Workshop series throughout California! In these workshops, we provide step-by-step guidance on topics that cover: • how to develop research questions • how to create effective community maps • how to facilitate participatory mapping • how to share maps and data with local community members The workshops also include: • facilitated activities training participants how to collect community feedback for advocacy, organizing and other projects • sessions on how to develop strategies where community members can give input to telling their community’s story. We are currently preparing to launch the first round of the workshop series in: Sacramento, Central Valley, and the Inland Empire!

1. Community Research Lab Workshop Series
(goes Statewide!)
Monday, December 16th
1:30m-2:30pm
Presenters
Janice C. Miller
Manager, Community Research Lab
jburns@advanceproj.org
www.Healthycity.org
Facebook.com/HealthyCityCA
@HealthyCityCA
info@healthycity.org
Taisha Bonilla
Training and Communications Coordinator
tbonilla@advanceproj.org
www.AdvancementProjectCA.org
Facebook.com/AdvancementProjectCA
info@advanceproj.org

2. 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.

3. Mission
Healthy City transforms how decisions are made by creating innovative tools
and methods that expose and resolve structural inequities
Strengthen community voice and
action
Purpose
Communities of every race and class have the opportunities and resources
they need to thrive
Increase resources in underserved
communities of color
Values
•Equity
•Community
•Transformation
Advance equitable public polices.

4. What We Do
ONLINE MAPPING
TECHNOLOGY
www.HealthyCity.org
DIRECT TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE:
Work ON-THE-GROUND
to develop targeted
research/policy
strategies and web
tools.
COMMUNITY
RESEARCH LAB
Engages, trains, and
provides tools for
community groups to lead
and sustain actionoriented research

5. The Community Research
supports capacity building through community engagement, workshops,
Lab for using maps in community-based research and action.
and tools
TOOLBOX
•Online Guide to Using HealthyCity.org for
Community Research and Engagement
•Short Guide to CBPAR
•Community Research Toolkit
•Participatory Asset Mapping Toolkit (Eng./Span.)
•Hyperlocal Communications Toolkit (Eng./Span.)
•Maps for Community Organizing Toolkit
(Eng./Span.)
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5.
WORKSHOPS
Research and Data Revealed
Community Assets on a Map
Visualizing Your Community
Hyperlocal Communications
From Research to Action

6. Why attend the Workshop
Series?
 Learn online tools for creating maps that
analyze your community’s issues and
conditions
 Gain skills for engaging community
members in research that strengthens
community led action
 Explore ways to use social networks to
share your community research and
knowledge

7. Workshop #1: Research and Data Revealed: An
Introduction to Community Research
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Understand the principles of Community-Based
Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) and
Place-based Research
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Understand ways in which community members
can be involved in the research process
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How to begin your Research Plan for Action by
turning issues into research questions and
identifying potential sources of data

11. Workshop #2:
Community Assets on a Map:
Facilitating a Community-Engaged Mapping Activity
 Learn what Community-Engaged Mapping is
and how it can be used to map community
assets.
 Learn how to set-up a Wikimap on HC.org
and how to map community assets.
 Learn how to effectively plan and facilitate a
Community-Engaged Mapping activity with
your community

15. Workshop #3: Visualizing Your Community:
Creating Maps That Tell Your Community’s Story
 Learn how to use the Healthy City Website
to create different types of maps for
community analysis
 Learn key elements of creating effective
maps to tell your community’s story
 Learn ways to make the map-making
process participatory

19. Workshop #4: Hyperlocal Communication:
Sharing Your Maps and Research
 Learn about communication tools for
research and action
 Learn how to do a social media landscape
analysis for your organization
 Learn how to use social networking tools to
make sharing and dissemination a
participatory process

23. Workshop #5: From Research to
Action!
 Learn about each others’ research and work
 Learn how other organizations have used
research, data and maps in their work
 Network with organizations in your region
and identify potential collaboration
opportunities

27. The Community Research
Lab Workshop Series
Five workshops total spanning 2.5 days
FREE!
Capacity for 30 people per workshop session
Loads of resources and materials
Bring your own laptop/tablet!
2 workshops a day, with an hour lunch break:
Day One: Workshop #1 9:00am-12:00pm & Workshop #2 1:00pm-4:00pm
Day Two: Workshop #3 9:00am-12:00pm & Workshop #4 1:00pm-4:00pm
Day Three: Workshop #5 9:00am-12:00pm
Dates and Regions:
Sacramento: January 14th – 16th
Riverside: February 10th – 12th
Fresno/Central Valley: March
Workshop Regions for 2015: San Diego, Orange County and Central
Coast!

28. Application Process

29. Application Process

30. Application Process

31. Application Process

32. Application Process

33. Application Process

34. Application Process

35. How to Apply:
Sacramento:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2014_SACRAMENTO
Last day to apply: Thursday, January 2nd at 12:00pm
Inland Empire:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2014_INLANDEMPIRE
Last day to apply: Wednesday, January 29th at 12:00pm
Central Valley:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2014_CENTRALVALLEY
Last day to apply: Wednesday, March 5th at 12:00pm

36. Questions?

37. Contact us!
Learn more about our
data sources,
research and events

38. Upcoming
Events
FAQ Fridays! Call us with your
questions! More info here:
http://v5.healthycity.org/FAQFrida
ys
Webinar:
Youth Voices on a Map
Tuesday, December 17th
10:00am-11:00am
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/re
gister/520753082

39. Thank You!
For questions regarding the workshops and
applications, please contact:
Taisha Bonilla
Training and Communications Coordinator, Healthy City
tbonilla@advanceproj.org