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How well do you understand the communities supported by your grants? Southwestern Pennsylvania Community Profiles (SWPA Community Profiles) is a new way to collect, analyze, and understand information across a range of data domains to look at our neighborhoods and communities in a comprehensive fashion.
SWPA Community Profiles are online profiles that present community data and indicators in a series of interactive tables and maps. Using data and indicators from local, state, and federal government sources, along with a select set of other databases, SWPA Community Profiles allow users to understand and visualize data by geographic areas in our region.
Data are organized along 11 domains: arts and culture, demographics, economy, education, environment, governance and civic vitality, health, housing and properties, human services, public safety, and transportation. Within each domain is information important to understanding the trends and developments that are affecting local communities. This information will be useful for many working in human services fields so that they can better understand complex relations through grasping the relationships between various indicators and using these tools to conduct more comprehensive assessments.
Join us as Sabina Deitrick, Director of the Urban and Regional Analysis Program at the University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR), and Liz Monk, Research Specialist at UCSUR, provide an overview of and training on how to use the SWPA Community Profiles.
If you have any specific questions about the Community Profiles, or if you have a particular interest in diving deeper into a particular place or data domain, please enter the questions/suggestions in the space provided during registration. This will help us shape the conversation to make sure participants get the most out of the time with Sabina and Liz.
SWPA Community Profiles has been supported by the Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) through its Human Services Integration Fund. Included in the project are DHS data totals by service type and geographic area.