In partnership with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, CARES is working with the Ardmore Institute for Health to examine the impact of Blue Zones and Wellville initiatives on communities across the United States. Using longitudinal data to assess health interventions and outcomes, the final report will provide insight into the efficacy of certain health interventions and strategies.
The Stone & Taney Counties Data Dashboard is a regional gateway to data on key issues affecting local communities. Local organizations use the dashboard to find data for the following categories: housing and families, childcare, transportation, food environment, digital equity, education, jobs, and health.
The Feedstuff Finder enables feedstuff buyers and sellers to make connections. Sellers of co-products and forages can share prices, products, information, and locations. Buyers can identify feedstuff sources by location, product type, or price and see their locations on a map. CARES developed the site, map, and cost calculator tool for the Feedstuff Finder team.
In 2023, CARES assisted ArtsKC with an asset mapping project. CARES provided data validation and data cleaning services to support the development of an arts-focused community dashboard. The dashboard can be viewed here.
CARES hosts and updates a series of local public health dashboards that provide citizens and the media with easy access to data on reportable diseases. Data are shown for more than 15 diseases in the county with benchmarks for previous years. CARES hosts dashboards for Andrew, Butler, Carter, Cass, Cooper, and Harrison counties in Missouri.
Boone County Food Coalition brings together local stakeholders to address food insecurity in the Boone County area. CARES provided data acquisition and mapping services to the Coalition.
CARES provides data to the Springfield-Greene County Health Department for analysis and use in their community health needs assessments.
This report examines racial disparity in Columbia (MO) Police Department traffic stops across age, sex, varying levels of geography, reasons for initiating post-stop searches, post-search outcomes, and factors that predict the likelihood that a stopped driver is Black. Disparity, discrimination, and racial bias in policing have been historically, and continue to be, an important policy issue.
RegionalNeeds.org was an interactive Community Needs Assessment sponsored by the United Way of Greater St. Louis. The CNA spanned 16 counties across two states (Illinois and Missouri). The CNA served the St. Louis community as a foundation to better understand what challenges people in the region are facing. The report also highlighted the most common needs across the Greater St. Louis region.
RocHealthData is a collaborative data-sharing Hub focused on serving the greater Rochester region in New York. Powered by local partners and the University of Rochester, RocHealthData is collecting and sharing local data internally through the Hub, and externally with public stories and maps.