| Community Resources:
The tangible assets within and characteristics of a community |
Physical and Mental Healthcare |
- Physical health care availability
- Mental and behavioral health care availability
- Dental care availability
- Healthcare infrastructure
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Housing and Banking |
- Availability of utilities
- Public and low-income housing
- Home value
- Banking
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Education and Extracurriculars |
- School quality
- Early childhood education
- Summer and extracurricular programming availability
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Built Environment and Transportation |
- Walkability
- Public parks, recreation, and green space
- Public transportation
- Traffic
- Infrastructure and business
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Food and Nutrition |
- Food access and security
- Food environment
- Availability of culturally appropriate foods
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Environment |
- Water quality
- Air quality
- Climate change
- Vulnerability to disasters
- Coal production
- Pesticide exposure
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Opportunity:
An individual's or household's capacity to achieve goals |
Health Care Access |
- Access to mental health care
- Access to dental care
- Access to medical and preventative care
- Sick time availability
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Economic Opportunity |
- Banking, credit, and debt
- Income and employment
- Cost burden of housing, transportation, and childcare
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Leisure and Recreation |
- Leisure time
- Work hours
- Commute duration
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Connection:
Characteristics of social and civic connections in a community |
Social Connection |
- Number and quality of social connections
- Trust in neighbors
- Participation in social groups
- Feelings of loneliness and isolation
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Civic Engagement and Trust in Institutions |
- Volunteerism
- Voter turnout and registration
- Political engagement
- Trust in government
- Trust in local police and the judicial system,
- Trust in media, transparency and data access
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Sense of Belonging |
- Discrimination
- Youth disconnection
- Deaths of despair
- Violent crime
- Knowledge transfer
- Cultural humility and competence
- Feelings of dignity, shame, and acceptance
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Structural Inequality:
The extent to which a community's systems and institutions are inequitable |
Structural Inequality |
- Income inequality
- Incarceration rates
- Diversity in local government
- Racial residential segregation,
- Laws and policies
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