Download the flyer announcing www.socialindicators.com 

The National Association of Planning Councils (NAPC) is committed to the use of indicators as a tool for positive change to address community problems and improve community conditions affecting people's lives.  NAPC has launched a major new initiative using social indicators to inform and engage people in addressing the critical health and social issues facing our communities. 

WEBSITE

Our Social Indicators website, www.socialindicators.com, was created with the assistance of the Center for Community Solutions (formerly the Federation for Community Planning) in Cleveland, Ohio.  It features NAPC's Leading Social Indicators, sets of health and social indicators selected by NAPC experts to describe the health and social condition of a community relative to national standards and other communities.  The website also features Deprivation and Child Welfare indexes and tables developed by Dennis P. Andrulis, Ph.D., Research Professor at the State University of New York Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn.

These indicators are reported for the largest metropolitan areas in the United States as well as for each community in which we have a council engaged in indicator work. 
 

USING INDICATORS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT

NAPC is an information resource for people who want to learn about "best practice" examples of how communities are using indicators to improve individual and community health and well-being.  We want to highlight how indicators inform and guide systems changes, support development of innovative programs, impact public policy decisions, and track improvements in health and economic status.  NAPC is collecting and disseminating information about effective initiatives and programs addressing the needs suggested by NAPC Leading Indicators.

Please complete a survey about successful initiatives and programs in your community which you know are producing results.  Information from this survey will provide valuable insight into the diversity and scope of work using health and social indicators to address conditions in different parts of the country. 

NAPC encourages its members and other organizations across the country to submit information about successful, effective community initiatives and interventions which are having a positive impact on the community problems suggested by the selected social and health indicators on this website.  If you have a success story to tell, please complete the following questionnaire, providing us with information about an initiative that is working in your community and its documented results.  A team of reviewers from NAPC will select a number of community "success stories" to feature in NAPC materials and presentations.  (At this time we are inviting information about community action initiatives related to the indicators -- rather than studies, surveys, or indicator projects focused on collecting and analyzing data.)

Download the survey questionnaire as a Word file, complete it, then email it to napc@communityplanning.org.  We greatly appreciate your help.

Background: NAPC's work related to social indicators

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