KIDS COUNT AND THE NATIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD INDICATORS PARTNERSHIP NNIP Potential for Collaboration

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KIDS COUNT AND THE NATIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD
INDICATORS PARTNERSHIP (NNIP) Potential for
Collaboration

• Tom Kingsley
• The Urban Institute
• Kids Count Conference, Baltimore, September 21,
  2007

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STRENGTHENING DATA DRIVEN CHILD ADVOCACY AT THE
LOCAL LEVEL

• Important goal
• How can it realistically be achieved?
• Benefit of building on/with existing networks.
• Will respond from perspective of National
  Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP)
• Collaborative effort Urban Institute and local
  partner organizations in 29 cities
• Local partners operate information systems
• Recurrently updated neighborhood data systems
• Multiple topics and data sources
• Emphasis on using information for change
• Priority to issues of distressed neighborhoods

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Current National Neighborhood Indicators Partners
AtlantaBaltimore Boston Camden Chattanooga Chicag
o Cleveland Columbus Dallas Denver Des
Moines Grand Rapids Hartford Indianapolis Louisvil
le Los Angeles Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapoli
s Nashville New Orleans New York City Oakland
Philadelphia Providence Sacramento Seattle Washing
ton, DC
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NNIP INTEREST IN DATA DRIVEN CHILD ADVOCACY

• Already good fit for many NNIP partners
• 2 are Kids Count Grantees (Des Moines,
  Washington)
• Topic key to mission for many others
• Approach more than increasing awareness
• Use data to plan and implement interventions
• In our view two features critical for success
  and sustainability
• Neighborhood level data
• Multiple topic data systems

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Geography Matters
Linking people information with place information

• Neighborhoods are important in the city.
• People can relate to data analysis at the
  neighborhood level.

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NNIP partners DATA FROM MANY SOURCES

• Neighborhood level
• social/economic/physical
• Employment
• Births, deaths
• Crimes
• TANF, Food Stamps
• Child care
• Health
• Schools

• Parcel level physical/
• economic
• Prop. sales, prices
• Prop. ownership
• Code violations
• Assessed values
• Tax arrears
• Vacant/abandoned
• City/CDC plans

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PARCEL LEVEL DATA BALTIMORE
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NEIGHBORHOOD DATABALTIMORE
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Trends in Teen Birth Rates (age 15-19) in High
Poverty and Other Neighborhoods, 1990-2000
Oakland, California
Denver, Colorado
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NNIP LOCAL PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

• NNIP Partners mostly nonprofit,
  non-governmental
• Government agency (Hartford, Seattle)
• - Community foundations (Atlanta, Boston,
  Dallas, Denver)
• - University-based centers (Baltimore,
  Cleveland, Grand Rapids, Los Angeles, Memphis,
  Minneapolis, New York)
• - United Way based groups (Des Moines,
  Indianapolis, Louisville)
• Nonprofit intermediaries (Camden, Chattanooga,
  Chicago, Columbus, Miami, Milwaukee, Nashville,
  New Orleans, Oakland, Philadelphia, Providence,
  Sacramento, Washington)
• All work by collaborating
• - With public agencies, nonprofits, businesses

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NNIP LOCAL APPLICATIONS

• Applications of indicators in local change
  initiatives
• City wide policy analysis to change laws and
  policies
• Data to guide program planning and implementation
  (spatial targeting of resources)
• Data to support neighborhood improvement and
  community development initiatives individual
  neighborhoods
• Data to support program/policy evaluation
• Comprehensive indicator report/review
• Well developed in Boston, Baltimore, Chattanooga,
  Philadelphia
• Several other cities making progress

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THE MISSION OF THE PARTNERSHIP

• Advance the state of practice
• Informing local policy initiatives (substantive
  cross-site initiatives)
• Developing tools and guides (NNIP Elements of
  Practice)
• Build/strengthen local capacity
• 3. Developing capacity in new communities
• 4. Services to an expanding network (Community of
  Practice and Partnership)
• Influence national context/partnering
• 5. Leadership in building the field

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New NNIP Initiative SCHOOL READINESS AND SUCCESS

• Underway in 8 cities
• Atlanta, Chattanooga, Cleveland, Denver,
  Memphis,
• Miami, Milwaukee, Providence
• Standard tasks, focus on local priorities
• Scan local early childhood support system
• Involve other local organizations
• Complete school readiness and success report
• Plan for future activity to address local
  priorities
• Conduct a Community Forum
• Participate in cross-city research and advocacy

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POTENTIAL FOR COLLABORATION - 1

• KC and NNIP work generally complementary
• - NNIP, little involvement in state level
  policy
• - KC little involvement
  building/applying neighborhood level
• data systems
• Start with general collaboration
• - Meet to get to know each others programs
• - Support each others agendas
• - Participate in each others events
• NNIP partners produce work of use to KC Grantees
• - Fine grained studies neighborhood level
  problems/needs
• - Illustrations of how policy and
  programs link in low income
• communities for use in state
  policy work

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Children Live in Healthy, Stable, and Supportive
Families
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POTENTIAL FOR COLLABORATION - 2

• KC grantees commission work from NNIP partners
• - GIS work
• - Other data assembly, tabulations
• Joint work on common tools and methods
• - Framing and communicating messages
• - Evaluation and performance management
• Joint work to start local child advocacy oriented
  data intermediaries in new cities
• - Start up assistance to groups in new cities
• - Coordinated approach helping locals
  partners expand
• data on early childhood,
  school readiness

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NNIP CONTACT INFORMATION

• Mailing address
• Tom Kingsley or Kathy Pettit
• National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
• c/o The Urban Institute
• 2100 M Street NW
• Washington, DC 20037
• Web site www.urban.org/nnip
• Email tkingsle_at_ui.urban.org , kpettit_at_ui.urban.or
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