The Sacramento County Student Mental Health & Wellness Collaborative hosted a presentation by Dr Nancy Erbstein, UC Davis Department of Human Ecology and Sergio Cuellar, UC Davis Center for Regional Change on the uses of PUTTING YOUTH ON THE MAP online applications. (http://interact.regionalchange...edu/youth/index.html
Putting Youth on the Map (PYOM) is a powerful information resource for youth and adults working to ensure youth well-being in California.
Who can use this?
- Youth and adult advocates can use PYOM to identify issues, mobilize action and hold decision-makers accountable for helping improve young people’s opportunities and outcomes.
- Service providers and private foundations can use PYOM to strategically allocate resources.
- Public agencies and policy-makers can use PYOM to focus funding, personnel, and regulation in ways that increase youth well-being, channel public resources fairly, and promote accountability.
- Everyone can use PYOM to identify leverage points for improving opportunity, develop multi-sector multi-issue collaborations, and hold themselves accountable for collectively improving conditions.
What can you do?
- See holistic place-based indices measuring youth well-being and severe isolation from support
- View index analyses by sex and race/ethnicity
- Explore data maps on income adequacy, suspension/truancy, transportation access, young adult voting and more
- Print maps and download data
- Find curricula and examples to help youth and community advocates use data maps
- Link to participatory mapping tools and other youth data sites
Check it out!
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