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This website offers Federally-developed interactive tools and other resources to help community organizations and partnerships in your efforts to support youth. Included are tools and resources to help you form effective partnerships, assess community assets, understand risk factors and protective factors, generate maps of local and Federal resources, and search for evidence-based youth programs.

Designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry. The MPG can be used to assist juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and researchers to enhance accountability, ensure public safety, and reduce recidivism. The MPG is an easy-to-use tool that offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs.

Designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry. The MPG can be used to assist juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and researchers to enhance accountability, ensure public safety, and reduce recidivism. The MPG is an easy-to-use tool that offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs.

This website gives you the tools and information you need to get started in making this vision a reality. It explains ways that our health can be affected by environmental contaminants and offers ideas of how to make changes around your home and in your community so we can live in a healthier world.

National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership from the Urban Institute incorporates geographical tools and neighborhood level data.

Beginning with CDC frameworks and assessments is a best practice for new and established public health professionals. Then shift to other needs assessments if they are a better fit. Rapid community assessment (RCA) is a process for quickly collecting community insights about a public health issue in order to inform program design. The assessment involves reviewing existing data and conducting community-based interviews, listening sessions, observations, social listening, and surveys. On this page, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shares an assessment guide and tools for those who wish to better understand their community's needs regarding COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake among adults, adolescents, and children.

Absolutely fantastic mapping tool with free and subscriber options. GWU students - you have access to the professional license by going through Gelman Library > Databases > Policy Mapper. PolicyMap offers easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US. From the classroom to the boardroom, thousands of organizations trust PolicyMap to find the right data for their research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.

Paid mapping program (academic discounts available) that focuses on tools to tell stories with data. View examples of a variety of topics for free. Note - GWU students - you have free access via Gelman > Databases > Social Explorer. Description: Gain deep insights into any location of interest through thousands of data variables and stunning visualizations. Reinforce your decisions with Social Explorer's reliable data mapping capabilities. Alternate program is Policy Mapper

Crime and policing data specific to the City of Lincoln, NE. Description: The Crime Analysis Unit reviews all Lincoln Police Department reports and identifies crime patterns by analyzing people, patterns, places and problems. Crime patterns are also recognized by utilizing tools and techniques implemented by other law enforcement agencies in doing Predictive and Preventive Analysis.  The unit maintains criminal intelligence information, Crime Stoppers, and the Leads OnLine pawn database. The unit coordinates and produces the monthly ACUDAT (Analyzing Crime Using Data About Trends) document and meeting, which is LPD's version of COMPSTAT. The Crime Analysis Unit also assists with statistical analysis requests by outside law enforcement agencies, universities, citizens, and business entities.

Health Services and Sciences Research Resources allows users to search for data sets, software, and survey instruments. Produced by the National Library of Medicine.

From the Prevention Institute, this provides communities with factors to evaluate when addressing community health and racial health disparities

Welcome to your tool for career exploration and job analysis! O*NET OnLine has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, researchers, and more!

Tutorials to use UDS Mapper. The UDS Mapper is designed to help inform users about the current geographic extent of U.S. federal (Section 330) Health Center Program (HCP) awardees and look-alikes, and was largely designed upon algorithms and reporting methods developed by John Snow, Inc. for BPHC-requested service area analyses. The information available in the UDS Mapper includes estimates of the collective service area of these health centers by ZCTA, including the ratio of HCP awardee and look-alike patients reported in the Uniform Data System (UDS) to the target population, the change in the number of those reported patients over time, and an estimate of those in the target population that remain unserved by HCP awardees and look-alikes reporting data to the UDS (but may be served by other providers). Due to data limitations, this tool is meant to be only one of many important resources available for exploring the extent of health centers. To inform additional exploration, users can also map U.S. Census data and see the locations of all HCP awardees and look-alikes and their service delivery sites, locations of other federally-linked providers (NHSC Sites, Rural Health Clinics, Tribal Organization Facilities, etc.), and shortage areas such as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/Ps).

Resource page supporting academics who wish to engage in harm reduction, anti-racist, drug policy reform. Founded in January 2016, DPA's Department of Research and Academic Engagement (DRAE) works to bridge the divide between research and effective drug policies. Our drug policies are driven by ideology, politics, stigma, greed, and/or racism rather than the evidence about what works. We at DRAE believe that it is more important than ever to promote policies grounded in scholarship and that policymakers need tools to access and use research.

Extensive library of tools and resources about dental therapy. Dental therapists are mid-level practitioners (think PA) who can provide dental services to under resourced populations. It is especially relevant to rural areas. Much of the work was led by tribal groups in Alaska who had a desperate need for dental care. The American Dental Association fought hard against this program - seeing it as a threat to their profession - but without providing any reasonable solution to the rural dental health desert. I attended this congressional hearing and it was HEATED. Senator Al Franken called out the ADA, which I can say was quite satisfying. Good example of a structural intervention.