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The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust is presenting these data tools for your information and use, but did not create them. These tools may be subject to copyright, and should be used within the terms of use outlined in any copyright restrictions.
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The Roadmap for Racial Equity: An Imperative for Workforce Development Advocates
The Roadmap for Racial Equity recognizes the historical disparities in employment and income as well as the challenges faced by people of color with deep generational roots and immigrants in the United States. Moreover, the report illustrates how existing workforce development policies intentionally create systemic barriers to people of color and recommends policy solutions / interventions for both state and federal levels with specific actions to take to build an equitable employment system and diverse racial workforce in the U.S.
Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care Scale (ARTIC-10)
The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care Scale is a validated tool developed by the Traumatic Stress Institute to measure attitudes toward trauma-informed care among staff working in settings such as school systems, human service agencies, state agencies, healthcare, and research. Two versions of ARTIC are available and user-charge, which are ARTIC-10 and ARTIC-35. ARTIC-10 example is attached for your view.
ROI Data Dashboard Annual Reflection Toolkit
This ROI Data Dashboard Annual Reflection Tool-Kit is a facilitation guide to gather more insight on trauma and resilience topics from large and small group discussions during your data collection process, which includes step-by-step instructions with recommended measurements (Excel file) to allow you to capture community feedback on the story behind quantitative data. The guide can be used to facilitate discussions about data, context behind quantitative data, and aligning data collection with community goals.
North Carolina Justice Data Portal
The North Carolina Justice Data Portal includes statewide and county-level criminal justice data visualizations, such as reported crimes, crime types, victim demographics, reporting agencies, and traffic stops by recent years. Contributing agencies are the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI). This tool allows stakeholders to study trends and patterns in criminal justice, identify areas for improvement, allocate resources to areas in need, and monitor progress over time.
Farmer Interview Questionnaire
The Farmer Interview Questionnaire serves as a guide for interviewing farmers. It provides a high-level overview of individual farmers’ practices and insight into the local food system, which could help prioritize areas for a local food system and agriculture. The Farmer Interview Questionnaire includes both closed-ended and open-ended questions about farmers’ products, practices, access to markets, and interest in and barriers to various opportunities. This questionnaire could be administered in person, over the phone, or online and used as part of a food systems needs and assets assessment.
Healthy Communities NC Dashboard
The interactive Healthy Communities NC Data Dashboard brings together and visualizes indicator data related to the Healthy NC 2030 goals. Data are displayed at the county and census-tract levels, as well as by region (mountains, sandhills, Triangle, Charlotte-metro, etc.) and show relative rankings to compare one county to others across the state. Using this tool, you can see an overview of your county’s status and challenges, and compare them with other counties / communities in the state.
Roadmap of Need (2019)
The North Carolina Roadmap of Need (2019) is a county-level, child-focused needs assessment report. Counties in NC are ranked based on various wellness indicators in four domains: health, youth behavior and safety, education, and economic development. This report can be used to see an overview of child-focused indicators of wellbeing, compare across counties, and advocate for resources or change.
Metrics that Matter
This Rural Opportunity Institute blog post from 2018 details the process and lessons learned from system-mapping activity related to trauma and resilience in Edgecombe County, NC. Examples are provided for data collectors to capture more context in the community and tell the full story in the data.