Amid the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, Resilient Santa Barbara County (RSBC) network partners continue to collaborate on projects that promote resiliency in our community. LegacyWorks Santa Barbara, an RSBC community partner, has been working diligently to facilitate and manage a countywide public-private collaborative effort to launch a new and improved Santa Barbara Community Data Dashboard.

Outside of being a community partner with the organization themselves, LegacyWorks has been working alongside Resilient Santa Barbara County from their inception, helping them identify and articulate core initiatives, map the landscape of partnerships, define principles, articulate an agreement for community partners, and advance their mission for social change. They have also worked with RSBC and the KIDS Network to push their ACEs Connection work forward. Many of the key principles that are reflected in the work done by both organizations are highlighted in the collaboration demonstrated by the contributors of the dashboard.

The dashboard, which offers a wide variety of interactive features displaying data on testing, cases, health care capacity, and so on, builds upon the metrics the County has been reporting and is a result of a collaborative public-private partnership of organizations and agencies working together to keep the community up to date on the pandemic. This effort is guided by a steering committee which is comprised of public health experts and community leaders including Resilient SBC Steering Committee member and Family Service Agency Assistant Executive Director, Steve DeLira. The steering committee’s work and the dashboard are informed by a larger advisory group, and the partnership extends to more than a dozen nonprofits, agencies and funders who have contributed data so far - many of whom are RSBC and Kids Network members.

All of these contributors have come together to form a new collaborative under the facilitation of LegacyWorks Santa Barbara, who have been responsible for leadership and implementation of the effort from the beginning. According to Carl Palmer of LegacyWorks, “The dashboard you see is a huge accomplishment that many many partners have made possible, including many members of the Kids Network, ACEs Connection and RSBC. We couldn’t have launched this first iteration of the dashboard without them!”

Carl added, “What you see at www.SBCdashboard.org is just the beginning. We have much more community impact data coming from nonprofits and agencies throughout the community. Each organization’s contribution adds important pieces of the puzzle, together painting an increasingly clear and complete picture of our community’s well being and resilience. We invite your participation as partners and data contributors as we work to build a trauma-informed and trauma-responsive shared information platform that helps us achieve RSBC’s vision of a resilient community, especially for our most vulnerable.”

Visit the Santa Barbara County Community Data Dashboard here.