The Creating Healthy Communities Ohio Hub was launched in 2015 by the Ohio Department of Health. The CHC Ohio Hub supports 20+ counties in Ohio with health-related policy, system, and environmental change strategy tracking, evaluation, and reporting. The Hub helps individual counties track progress on community health interventions and provides aggregate data to state-level managers for initiative-level metrics.
The ESHE Index was developed in partnership with the Council on Black Health in 2015. The index ranked counties across the United States on factors related to healthy eating. The goal of ESHE Index was to stimulate changes in food and food policy landscapes that can facilitate high dietary quality. The ESHE index was discontinued in 2021.
ExploreMOHealth was launched in 2018 with support from the Missouri Hospital Association and the Health Indicators Data Institute (HIDI). ExploreMOHealth provides zip-code level rankings across major health behaviors and health outcomes in the state.
ExploreTNHealth was launched in 2019 in partnership with the Missouri Hospital Association. ExploreTNHealth provides zip-code level rankings across major health behaviors and health outcomes in the state.
In 2018, the Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center and Mercer University partnered with CARES to provide the state of Georgia and its public health entities with a custom community health needs assessment (CHNA), Map Room, and a Health Asset Finder. These tools were all launched as widgets, or embeddable tools, and can be found on at https://georgiaruralhealth.org
The Grazing Wedge tool is designed to provide farmers with best practices for forage management, including strategies for forage optimization by measuring forage growth and rotation. The Grazing Wedge tool allows users to draw farm and paddock layouts, enter data, and visualize forage status.
The Lehigh Valley Community Hub has been a CARES partner for 10+ years. The Lehigh Valley Hub supports leaders working toward community change with a focus on cross-sector data-driven collaboration. The intent of the Hub is to encourage the sharing of data and the use of data to effect change throughout the lifespan of an initiative.
The CAPAI Data Hub is designed to assist local community action agency staff with the development of Community Needs Assessments (CNAs). Launched in 2019, the CAPAI Data Hub provides access to core secondary indicators for assessing and addressing poverty. The Hub also provides Idaho CAAs with access to county-level poverty reports.
The Health in Appalachia Hub, sponsored by the Appalachian Regional Commission and launched in 2018, is designed to help identify economic and health issues in the Appalachian area. The Hub features compelling “Bright Spot” case studies and maps on health outcomes and health factors (9 domains and 41 indicators).
All Things Missouri was launched in 2018 and quickly became Missouri’s central data and mapping resource for policy-makers, business owners, farmers, and community organizations working to resolve issues related to: agriculture and environment; business and community; health and safety; and youth and family. All Things Missouri provides access to national, state, and local (Missouri-sourced) data all in one platform. It hosts the Missouri Map Room and tools to support University of MIssouri Extension programs and services.