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KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state project launched by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to track the status of children in the United States. The Foundation funds a network of state-level KIDS COUNT projects that provide detailed state, regional, and community-level views of the condition of children and families. The KIDS COUNT state projects, currently in 48 states and the District of Columbia, are intended to help disseminate high-quality data at the county level to policy makers, government officials, service providers, journalists, and citizens so they may make informed decisions about policies and programs affecting the lives of children and youth.
Data from KIDS COUNT are disseminated in a number of ways. In addition to the national KIDS COUNT data book published annually by the foundation, data can be accessed from the foundation’s website in various forms: as state profiles, maps, graphs, and data files. Each of the state components also publishes its own data book annually, and many make data books and core data accessible through websites.Finally, the Foundation periodically produces special KIDS COUNT publications. The two publications listed below,City Kids Count and The Right Start, provide data for the 50 largest U.S. cities.
William O’Hare
KIDS COUNT Coordinator
The Annie E. Casey
Foundation
701 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410)
223-2949
Fax: (410) 223-2956
E-mail: billo@aecf.org
Web page:
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount
Annie E. Casey Foundation. (1999). The Right Start: A New Report on Infants in Largest U.S. Cities. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Annie E. Casey Foundation. (1997). City Kids Count. Baltimore, MD: Author.
Each state grantee publishes an annual data book on the condition of children as a condition of Foundation KIDS COUNT funding. Web addresses for state KIDS COUNT groups are available through http://www.aecf.org.
The Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives is a forum in which people engaged in the field of comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs)—including foundation sponsors, directors, technical assistance providers, evaluators, and public sector officials—meet to discuss challenges, discern lessons that are being learned by initiatives across the country, and work on common concerns. CCIs are neighborhood-based efforts that seek improved outcomes for individuals and families as well as improvements in neighborhood conditions by working comprehensively across social, economic, and physical sectors.
The Roundtable was founded in 1992 with the sponsorship of the National Academy of Sciences. It became a policy program of the Aspen Institute in 1994. Ten private foundations fund the Roundtable’s activities.
The Roundtable’s website includes a catalogue of measurement instruments related to community research. This feature of the Roundtable site, called Measures for Community Research, serves as a clearinghouse for the collection and distribution of instruments and other tools related to key community-level outcomes. In addition to primary data collection instruments, the database also includes descriptions of how to use administrative data to create small area indicators that are appropriate for community-level research.
Additionally, the Roundtable’s Community Building Resource Exchange is a forum for exchanging resources and information by providing links to a wide range of materials covering the theoretical bases and practical applications of comprehensive, community building approaches to neighborhood revitalization.
Andrea Anderson
Research Associate
Roundtable on
Comprehensive Community Initiatives
The Aspen Institute
281 Park Avenue
South
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (212) 677-5510
Fax: (212)
677-5650
E-mail: andreaa@aspenroundtable.org
Web
page: Roundtable on Comprehensive
Community Initiatives for Children and Families
The Aspen Institute
Community Building Resource Exchange
Fulbright-Anderson, K. Kubisch, A.C., and Connell, J.P. (1999). New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives, Volume II:Theory, Measurement and Analysis. Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute. Available for purchase online at http://www.aspenroundtable.org.
Connell, J.P., Kubisch, A.C., Schorr, L.B., and Weiss, C.H. (1995). New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives Volume I: Concepts, Methods, and Contexts. Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute. Available for purchase online at http://www.aspenroundtable.org.
Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives.(1995).Voices from the Field: Learning from Comprehensive Community Initiatives. Available for purchase online at http://www.aspenroundtable.org.
Chapin Hall Center for Children, an independent policy and research center located at the University of Chicago, focuses on issues and policies that affect the well-being of children. Over 100 persons from a wide variety of academic disciplines staff the Center.Their work in neighborhood-level indicators combines various sources of information (both quantitative and qualitative) to draw a clearer picture of the status of communities. This is done through the formation of new methods of data and information development to meet community-identified needs, as well as illuminating aspects of communities that are not now completely accessible through data and information sources. Chapin Hall has partnered with two community-based collaborative organizations in the City of Chicago to develop ways to help communities use data and information to support and sustain positive community change.
In an effort to assist local communities, Chapin Hall has worked with Chicago-area data providers—such as the Illinois Department of Human Services, the Chicago Public Schools, and the City of Chicago—to obtain and map neighborhood-level indicators the communities can use to better understand and evaluate the needs of their residents. By providing its partners with valuable community information Chapin Hall has enabled them to undertake their own data collection activities and increased their awareness of the importance of data and information for planning their programs and activities. Chapin Hall is currently developing a framework for the creation of an independent data intermediary to meet the information needs of community-based organizations city-wide.
Bong Joo Lee
Research Fellow
Chapin Hall Center for
Children
University of Chicago
1313 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL
60637
Tel: (773) 256-5100
Fax: (773) 753-5940
E-mail:
lee-bong-joo@chmail.spc.uchicago.edu
Ada Skyles
Research Fellow
Chapin Hall Center for
Children
University of Chicago
1313 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL
60637
Phone: (773) 256-5100
Fax: (773) 753-5940
E-mail:
skyles-ada@chmail.spc.uchicago.edu
Web
page: http://www.chapin.uchicago.edu
Sommer, T.E., Brown, P., Chaskin, R., Goerge, R., Richman, H., Slavitt, L., and Venkatesh, S. (1996). Creation of a Community Information Infrastructure: Capturing the Breadth and Depth of Information Necessary for the Effective Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation of Comprehensive Community Initiatives.Chicago: Chapin Hall.
The Center for the Study of Social Policy, in collaboration with the Harvard Project on Effective Services, the National Center on Education and the Economy, and the National Alliance for Restructuring Education, sponsored the Improved Outcomes for Children Project (IOCP) between 1992 and 1996.IOCP publications advocate a shift from process monitoring to outcome measurement within human services.They address practical issues involved in implementation of results-based systems and offer sample indicator sets that community groups can use or adapt. The audience for this work includes policy makers, legislators, other elected officials, and program administrators at the state, local, and (increasingly) neighborhood levels.
The Case for Shifting to Results-Based Accountability.This paper is one in a series of papers produced by the IOCP and focuses on improving services to children and families. It describes some of the issues in the shift to results-based accountability and identifies a start-up list of outcome measures with annotations on this use.The paper sets the stage for later discussions about how to translate desired outcomes into programs, budgets, and performance assessments.
Finding the Data: A Start-Up List of Outcome Measures with Annotations. This document is a follow-up to the The Case for Shifting to Results-Based Accountability. The primary purpose of the document is to assist communities that are trying to measure and improve outcomes for families and children.Outcome measures are provided for several areas including child poverty, birthweight, child abuse and neglect, and substance abuse. Information is provided on defining outcomes, finding the data to measure outcomes, and analyzing the data to assess local performance.
John Salois
Center for the Study of Social Policy
1250 Eye Street,
NW, Suite 503
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 371-1565
Fax: (202)
371-1472
E-mail: jsalois@cssp.org
Web page:
http://www.cssp.org
Center for the Study of Social Policy. (1995). Finding the Data: A Start-Up List of Outcome Measures with Annotations. Washington, DC: Author.
Schorr, Lisabeth B., Farrow, Frank, Hornbeck, David, and Watson, Sara. (1995). The Case for Shifting to Results-Based Accountability. 11 pp.Washington, DC:Center for the Study of Social Policy.
Each may also be ordered for $7.50 from: Center for the Study of Social Policy, 1250 I Street, N.W., Suite 503, Washington, DC20005.Include your name, organization, address, phone number, and e-mail. Questions about publications can be directed to the Publications Office by mail or by phone at (202) 371-1565.
CityMatCH is a national membership and applied research organization which is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of women, children and families in urban communities. CityMatCH provides urban health departments and other local, state and national partners in urban maternal and child health (MCH) with products and services that enable the translation of research and data into effective public health practice.CityMatCH serves as the national resource center for urban maternal and child health information and epidemiology.It has active partnerships with most of the 175 local public health departments that serve U.S. cities with populations of over 100,000. CityMatCH utilizes its relationships with its member health departments to improve data quality, access and utility, and to continuously expand the understanding of how indicator data can be used strategically in an applied setting to improve the well-being of urban communities.
CityMatCH publications include its quarterly newsletter CityLights; Lessons Learned, Profiles of Urban MCH Practices; special policy and data reports and Policy Info, a quarterly compendium of urban MCH-related resources. Other signature products and services include the Ask-A-Colleague service, the Urban Maternal and Child Health Data Use Institute, and Urban Learning Clusters. The Ask-A-Colleague service enables CityMatCH member health departments to exchange resources and strategies around common issues, and fosters peer technical assistance. The Data Use Institute (DUI), created in 1997 in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is a year-long team-based learning experience which builds community competencies in the strategic use of data to make a measurable and intended difference. Urban learning clusters promote cross-city team-based translation of science to practice. The Perinatal Periods of Risk learning cluster is advancing the use of a World Health Organization methodology for addressing fetal and infant mortality.Another learning cluster of teams from five major U.S. cities is addressing the prevention of perinatal HIV transmission.
William M. Sappenfield, M.D., M.P.H.
MCH Epidemiologist assigned by
CDC to CityMatCH at the
University of Nebraska Medical
Center
982170 Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics
Omaha, NE
68198-2170
Phone: (402) 595-1700
Fax: (402) 595-1693
E-mail:
wsappenf@unmc.edu
Magda G. Peck, Sc.D.
CEO/Executive Director,
CityMatCH
and Professor and Associate Chair, Department of
Pediatrics
University of Nebraska Medical Center
982170 Nebraska Medical
Center, Department of Pediatrics
Omaha, NE 68198-2170
Phone: (402)
595-1690
Fax: (402) 595-1693
E-mail: mpeck@unmc.edu
Fitzgerald, M., Christensen, J., and Rostermundt, J. (Eds.). (2000).Lessons Learned:1999 Profiles of Leading Urban Health Department Initiatives in Maternal and Child Health. Omaha, NE: CityMatCH at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Hart Environmental Data is a private consulting firm dedicated to furthering the development of sustainable communities, primarily through the development, understanding, and use of indicators.Clients include non-profit organizations; federal, state, regional, and local governments; foundations; and the private sector. Hart Environment Data's consulting services include training, analysis, and reporting to support the use of community indicators.
Resource Description
Sustainable Measures manages a website featuring a searchable database of indicators and indicator systems.The Indicator Database can be searched by specific indicator and by category. A checklist of sustainability criteria helps users determine whether an indicator is a good measure of sustainability.
The database provides users with a list of over 300 commonly used keywords for creating a search term or indicator name. Indicators are also divided into 12 categories:
Maureen Hart
Hart Environmental Data
P.O. Box 361
North
Andover, MA 01845
Phone: (978) 975-1988
Fax: (978) 975-2241
E-mail:
mhart@tiac.net
Web page:
http://www.subjectmatters.com/indicators
Hart, Maureen.(1999).Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators, 2nd Edition. North Andover, MA: Hart Environmental Data.
Mazzotta, Marisa, Hart, Maureen, and Kellman, Kathy. (1999).Gauging Coastal Sustainability:Using Sustainability Indicators to Plan Initiatives, and to Understand, Communicate and Measure Progress.Presented at the Coastal Zone 99 Conference, July, San Diego, CA.
Hart, Maureen, Mazzotta, Marisa, and Kellman, Kathy. (1999).Measuring Sustainability:An Assessment of Criteria for Defining and Selecting Sustainability Indicators.Montpelior, VT: Green Mountain Institute for Environmental Democracy.
Farrell, Alex, and Hart, Maureen. (1998)."What Does Sustainability Really Mean? The Search for Useful Indicators." Environment 40, No. 9: 4-9:26-31.
Hart, Maureen. (1997).Sustainable Community Indicators Training Manual. North Andover, MA: Hart Environmental Data (available online).
Hart, Maureen. (1996-present)."Indicator Critique."Quarterly column in Urban Quality Indicators. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Urban Quality Communications.
Hart, Maureen. (1995).Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators. Ipswich, MA:QLE/Atlantic Center for the Environment.
Hart, Maureen.(1995).Criteria and Ranking Scheme for Indicators of Sustainability. Draft Report.
Join Together, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization that works to assist community coalitions and other groups in their fight against substance abuse, illicit drugs, excessive alcohol, and tobacco. How Do We Know We Are Making a Difference? is the title of a handbook published by the organization to help community-based groups track their progress. It outlines a framework for the development of 20 specific indicators focused on the scope and nature of local substance abuse problems.
The handbook is a guide for community action.It is organized into five chapters:
The 20 indicators included in the handbook are ones that can be compiled at the community level.The suggested data sources are well defined. They include the Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System, the Drug Use Forecasting system, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, the Uniform Crime Reports, the Fatal Accident Reporting System, and the Drug Abuse Warning Network. The strengths and limitations of each indicator are described, and specific steps a community would follow to retrieve the data are outlined.
The indicators are classified into five primary topic areas:
Join Together
441 Stuart Street, 7th floor
Boston,
MA 02116
Phone: (617) 437-1500
Fax: (617) 437-9394
E-mail:
info@jointogether.org
Web page:
http://www.jointogether.org/sa/
How Do We Know We Are Making a Difference? (1996).Boston:Join Together. 86 pp. Substance abuse indicators handbook to help communities assess substance abuse problems.First copy free.Additional copies $10 each. E-mail info@jointogether.org or call (617) 437-1500 to order.
National Civic League (NCL) is a 106-year-old, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Denver. Best known for the annual All-America City Awards, NCL also works directly with communities to foster cross-sector collaboration and grass-roots problem solving. The organization’s mission is to strengthen citizen involvement by transforming democratic institutions. NCL offers a variety of services that assist communities in building collaborative plans between citizens, government, nonprofits, and business. Among NCL’s tools for training and technical assistance is The Civic Index, a self-evaluation model for communities.
NCL offers a variety of services and publications designed to assist communities with the processes of self-assessment, strategic planning, and implementing change.These include training, stakeholder analysis, assets mapping, facilitation, consultation, and networking.Of particular interest:
The Civic Index measures civic infrastructure: the capacities and formal and informal processes and networks through which communities make decisions and attempt to solve problems.This 10-component self-evaluation tool looks at the relationships and responsibilities of citizens, local government, business, and nonprofits in addressing community challenges.
Assessing Our Reality. NCL assists communities in pulling together information that provides a snapshot of their current situation to make a community profile that includes hard data, community perceptions, and an assessment of the community’s political will to move forward.
Drew O’Connor
National Civic League
1445 Market Street, #
300
Denver, CO 80202-1728
Phone: (303) 571-4343
Fax: (303)
571-4404
National Civic League. (1993).The Civic Index: A New Approach to Improving Community Life. 50 pp. A 10-component self-evaluation tool for communities to use in enhancing their capacity to plan for their futures and solve community problems.
National Civic League. (1993).The Healthy Communities Handbook. 162 pp. This publication presents the healthy communities philosophy and serves as an overview of the NCL process/approach.
Redefining Progress is a public policy organization focusing on socially equitable development.Aside from developing new ideas to prompt national debate, Redefining Progress partners with 200 community-based groups across the nation in creating new indicators and benchmarks of progress. Its Community Indicators Project is a valuable resource for community organizations as they continue to define and deliver better outcomes.
Redefining Progress's Community Indicators Project links existing and emerging projects and facilitates the development of community indicators initiatives nationwide. It features a series of tools, resources, and technical support. Of particular interest are the following:
Community Indicators Projects Directory
This database
directory includes information about over 200 community-level indicator
projects (CIPs) from around the United States, as well as several international
projects. Users are able to query the database and view valuable project
information, hyperlink to each featured project, and obtain publication
information.
RP-CINet Listserve
The RP-CINet listserve is an e-mail-based
discussion group intended for organizations and individuals who are currently
implementing CIPs or are in the process of developing an indicators project.
The purpose of the listserve is to provide a forum to (1) link existing and
emerging CIPs, (2) exchange ideas and information in the field of community
indicators, and (3) collectively support the growing number of CIPs.
Michelle Gale-Sinnex
Redefining Progress
One Kearny Street, 4th
Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
Phone: (415) 781-1191
Fax: (415)
781-1198
E-mail: mgs@rprogress.org
Web page:
http://www.rprogress.org
Publications
Most of the organization’s publications can be downloaded from its web page. The available publications include the following:
The Search Institute is a nonprofit organization that works to advance the well-being of children and youth by generating knowledge and promoting its application.Developmental assets are defined as the positive experiences, opportunities, and personal qualities that all children and adolescents need to become responsible, successful, and caring adults.The Search Institute’s framework of developmental assets was first described in a 1990 publication titled The Troubled Journey: A Portrait of 6th-12th Grade Youth. Revised in 1996, the framework of 40 developmental assets seeks to identify and begin to measure the diverse elements of a strength-based approach to child and adolescent development.It is grounded in research in adolescent development, prevention, risk reduction, and resiliency.The framework offers a set of 40 factors for healthy development that help to create healthy, productive young people and protect youth against high-risk behavior. The factors are used as components of many local indicator systems, including Vermont’s Framework for children.
Search Institute has developed a survey, Search Institute Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors, to assist communities in assessing the developmental assets of their youth. The survey is intended for students in 6th-12th grade and measures 40 developmental assets as well as other constructs, including thriving indicators (positive outcomes such as school success, maintenance of physical health), developmental deficits (factors that may increase the odds that a young person will engage in risky behaviors, e.g., watching too much television or being a victim of violence), and high risk behavior patterns (e.g., antisocial behavior, problem alcohol use, school problems, etc.).
Search Institute
700 S. Third Street, Suite 210
Minneapolis, MN
55415
Phone: (800) 888-7828
Fax: (612) 376-8956
E-mail:
debg@search-institute.org
faithd@search-institute.org
Web page:http://www.search-institute.org/research/survey/a&b.htm
Developmental
Assets
Search Institute
Publications
A full listing of Search Institute resources and publications can be found online at http://www.search-institute.org/catalog/index.htm.
Benson, P. L., Scales, P., Leffert, N., and Roehlkepartain, J. (1999).A Fragile Foundation: The State of Developmental Assets among American Youth.Minneapolis:Search Institute.
Scales, P.(1999).Reducing risks and building developmental assets: Essential actions for promoting adolescent health. Journal of School Health, 69, 113-119.
Scales, P.(1998).Asset building and risk reduction:Complementary strategies for youth development. Pregnancy Prevention for Youth: An Interdisciplinary Newsletter, 1.
Scales, P., and Leffert, N. (1998).Developmental Assets:A Synthesis of the Scientific Research on Adolescent Development. Minneapolis: Search Institute.
Leffert, N., Benson, P. L., and Roehlkepartain, J. (1996). Starting Out Right: Developmental Assets for Children. Minneapolis: Search Institute.
The UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities is a collaborative effort of the UCLA School of Medicine and affiliated medical centers, the UCLA School of Public Health, and the RAND Corporation. It is a resource for community-based organizations, public agencies, and health care providers, with projects and programs that assist families and communities in caring for the wide-ranging needs of children, especially those who are poor, uninsured, or have special needs. Focusing on prevention and early intervention, the Center conducts activities in five major areas: health and social services for children and families; cutting-edge applied research designed to help solve critical problems in child and family health and health care; expert training of health and social service providers to better meet child and family needs; public policy research and analysis; and technical assistance and support to community providers, agencies, and policy makers.
The Center has significant expertise and experience in developing and using community health indicators and community health report cards as important tools in the community health improvement process. Resources available include the following:
The National Directory of Community Health Reports Cards. The center compiled this useful directory, which features summaries and contact information for 65 report cards from communities across the nation. The directory is published by the Health Research and Educational Trust, Chicago, IL.
Community Report Cards: A Bridge from Assessment to Community Action. The Center is currently completing a technical assistance manual designed specifically for community leaders, local public health departments, community-based organizations, and service providers to assist in the development of community-level report cards.The manual will be available in late 2000.
Carol Sutherland, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Project Director
Center for
Healthier Children, Families and Communities
Room 61-253 CHS, Box
951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
Phone: (310)794-7201
Fax:
(310)825-3868
E-mail: cesuth@ucla.edu
Web page:
www.healthychild.ucla.edu
UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities.The National Directory of Community Health Report Cards. Chicago, IL: Health Research and Educational Trust. Available from American Hospital Association, $25 per copy for American Hospital Association members, $35 for non-members.To order, call 1-800-AHA-2626 and ask for item # 169300.
United Way of America (UWA) is the national service and training center that supports member local United Ways by helping them pursue dual strategies of adding value to their community and conducting cost-effective, donor-oriented fund-raising to increase financial resources. In 1999, nearly 1,400 United Way organizations were members of UWA.
UWA’s Web-based Outcome Measurement Resource Network provides information, downloadable documents, and links to other resources for measuring program- and community-level outcomes. The network has three major areas:
UWA has developed “The United Way State of Caring Index™,” an index of key social indicators at the state and national levels. The index, intended as a summary measure of Americans’ capacity to care for one another, consists of 32 individual indicators in six areas:economy and financial well-being, education, health, voluntarism/charity/civic engagement, safety, and natural environment/other.
Outcome Measurement Resource Network
Margaret Plantz
United Way of
America
701 N. Fairfax St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
E-mail:
meg.plantz@uwa.unitedway.org
Web
page:http://national.unitedway.org/outcomes/library.htm
The United Way State of Caring Index™
Jeff Elder
United Way
of America
701 N. Fairfax St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
E-mail:
jeff.elder@uwa.unitedway.org
Web page: http://stateofcaring.unitedway.org
Community Status Reports and Targeted Community Interventions: Drawing a Distinction. This United Way of America "white paper" distinguishes efforts to report on community-wide indicators (report cards, indicators reports, and the like) from efforts to target, plan for, and measure specific community changes.Available online at http://national.unitedway.org/outcomes/distinct.pdf.
The United Way State of Caring Index™ brochure is available on the United Way website. It provides a short overview of the project index in addition to a look at the national index.
A United Way State of Caring Index: Executive Summary with state results is also available on the United Way website.
The National Neighborhood Indicators Project (NNIP) is a collaborative effort led by the Urban Institute and local partners to expand neighborhood-level indicator work into local policy making and community-building endeavors. Cities currently participating in this collaboration are Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Denver, Indianapolis, Miami, Milwaukee, Oakland, Philadelphia, Providence, and Washington.All local partners have compiled and continually update information systems on neighborhood conditions within their respective cities. The goal of these comprehensive information systems is to build the capacities of institutions and residents in distressed urban neighborhoods, as well as to facilitate the direct use of information by local government and community leaders to help improvement efforts.
The full-scale implementation of NNIP began in late 1996, when staff from both the Urban Institute and the local partners have focused their attention on five goals: information use in community-building, information use in local policymaking, formation of a National Neighborhood Data System, analysis of neighborhood change, dissemination of this neighborhood indicator information, and facilitation of networking and technical assistance to local partners
In recent years all NNIP partners have built advanced information systems with integrated and updated information on neighborhood conditions in their cities.Their indicators cover topics such as births, deaths, crime, health status, educational performance, public assistance, and property conditions. Storage and use of indicators varies across projects.
NNIP staff at the Urban Institute have developed a data system that can function as a starter kit for new cities that join the NNIP network. This database contains indicator data at the census tract and zip code level for metropolitan areas throughout the country. Data are drawn from seven national data sets including the Decennial Census. The data set has been used to create a set of Metropolitan Profiles for the 100 largest metropolitan areas and will be used to support research on neighborhood change processes.
Tom Kingsley
National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
c/o The
Urban Institute
2100 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
Phone: (202)
261-5585
Fax: (202) 223-3043
E-mail: Nnip@urban.org
Web page:
http://www.urban.org/nnip/index.htm
NNIP has developed guides, handbooks, and other materials to help other advance their skills and capacities. Some of these publications include the following:
Coulton, Claudia J.(1999).Building Indicators of Neighborhood Health and Change Public Assistance Records:A Source for Neighborhood Indicators. National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership Report. Washington, DC:The Urban Institute.
Coulton, Claudia J.(1999).Vital Records: A Source for Neighborhood Indicators. National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership Report. Cleveland, Ohio: Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change, Case Western Reserve University.
Kingsley, G. Thomas.(1998).Neighborhood Indicators: Taking Advantage of the New Potential. Working Paper. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association.Building community capacity to use information.
Kingsley, G. Thomas.(1997).Neighborhood Indicators and Community Initiatives. The Evaluation Exchange:Emerging Strategies in Evaluating Child and Family Services. Harvard Family Research Project. Volume III, No. 3/4: 9-10.
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