Abstract
Census and administrative data are key sources of information on important issues facing communities. These data are however just part of the story. Community members’ voices also provide a complementary wealth of information. The challenge, however, is ensuring those community members’ voices include those least likely to be heard. Children and their families are not included in community planning as often as they should be; Neither are staff at community-based organizations who offer critical services that help communities thrive and are in touch with the most pressing community needs and resources. This chapter reviews family-centered methods part of a community-based approach to identifying both community-level needs and resources. This approach includes a multi-domain framework relying on dozens of publicly available data sources to identify both welcomed and worrisome trends, as well as cellphone-based surveys, data walks, and participatory listening sessions with community members—caregivers of young children, youth, and staff at community-based organizations. The chapter also addresses the benefits of family-centered methods when public data are lacking, and how they inform policy advocacy in addition to local community planning efforts.
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Racial/ethnic groups are defined as: White = non-Latino White alone; Black = non-Latino Black alone; Asian = non-Latino Asian or Pacific Islander alone; Latino = Latino of any race.
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These and more community-level data on New York City children and families are available at CCC’s online database, data.cccnewyork.org
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Kimiagar, B., March, J. (2022). Elevating the Voices of Children and Their Caregivers in New York City. In: Ridzi, F., Stevens, C., Wray, L. (eds) Community Quality-of-Life Indicators. Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06940-6_6
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