Nutrient Management Planner serves as an MU Extension site consolidator for nutrient management. Farmers, researchers, and technicians can learn to use this information to maximize cost efficiency by using manure as a fertilizer and comply with state and federal requirements, such as those pertaining to nitrogen runoff.
Partnership for a Healthier America previously hosted both a Hub and a Widget on the CARES Network. PHA is focused on encouraging healthier eating and lifestyles for children and young adults by improving local food environments. The ImPHAct Map, previously available on the PHA website, collects and displays information on corner stores and campuses who have committed to be PHA partners.
The Creating Healthy Communities Ohio Hub was launched in 2015 by the Ohio Department of Health. The CHC Ohio Hub supported 20+ counties in Ohio with health-related policy, system, and environmental change strategy tracking, evaluation, and reporting. The Hub helped individual counties track progress on community health interventions and provided 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 Leonard Parker Pool Institute for Health Hub, formerly the Lehigh Valley Community Hub, has been a CARES partner for 10+ years. The LPPIH 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.
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.