Healthy & Resilient Communities Dashboard Launched
Healthy & Resilient Communities Dashboard Launched as Part of the NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative
The NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative (NC HRCI) hosted by NCPC works to reduce adversity experienced in multiple realms by children and families living in NC and increase protective factors and skills that contribute to building resilience.
Smart Start’s NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative (NC HRCI) has launched a NC Healthy & Resilient Data Dashboard. The dashboard was added to Smart Start Community Indicators, adding 8 new indicators to the overarching dashboard. Start Community Indicators, contains insights and visualizations to support planning and decision making for county-level investments. By creating a dashboard focused on resiliency, Smart Start Local Partnerships and partners throughout North Carolina can use the collected data to better plan and make decisions for their communities as well as examine inequities that may exist.
New Metrics and Indicators
The new indicators within the NC Healthy & Resilient Data Dashboard are based on the 5 categories of the CDC’s Social Determinants of Health as well as a metric focused on structural racism. It is important to note that these metrics are not available at all levels like the indicators in Smart Start Community Indicators—highlighting the need for more investments to guide and measure this work. New metrics include but are not limited to absenteeism, the suicide rate, and social vulnerability.
To view the dashboard extension on resiliency, click here and go to the drop-down menu under “Initiative”. From there, you can view Smart Start Indicators or Healthy & Resilient Communities. Consider watching this informational video to learn more about using the Smart Start Community Indicators Dashboard.
Explore these new indicators now for new insights into ways to measure and think about resiliency and trauma!
To learn more about Smart Start’s resiliency work visit- https://www.smartstart.org/resilience-intro/
