Program areas at Digital Organizing Power-Building and Engagement Labs
Maternal health care, community driven technology platform:partnering with maternal mental health now implement a culturally and community responsive Engagement process and technology tool (streetwyze) that provides new opportunities for vulnerable populations to use local knowledge and local data to build healthier communities, re-imagine maternal mental health equity, and better connect to maternal mental health resources in los angeles.integrated the maternal mental health now resource directory with streetwyze to product an open access and community relevant tool for finding maternal resources; completed 10 community trainings on the new platform; and onboarding 100+ new community users.
Climate resilience measurement, community resource sharing through technology platforms:partnering with uta and eecho, this project examined how crowdsourced mobile data can be leveraged to (1) improve the spatiotemporal characterization of factors that influence community resilience to flood disasters, (2) develop new metrics that account for the dynamic social and physical nature of resilience, and (3) encourage more equitable capacity-building that reduces the impacts of future flood hazards and enhances disaster resilience across all segments of the population.25+ community trainings on streetwyze; 50+ community users; 200+ data points in the gulfport area around stormwater management and resilience
Childhood obesity, food equity, and justice, community technology platforms:partnering with ucsd, we implemented the streetwyze platform to utilize an exploration, preparation, implementation, and sustainment (epis) framework to advance community-based precision approach to aces while systematically examining community, organizational, family, and individual factors that impact implementation and individual response treating comorbid childhood obesity.0+ community organizations partnerships; 20+ community trainings on streetwyze; 5,000+ streetwyze data points collected by community users.
Partnering with ucsd, we implemented the streetwyze platform with community based organizations across san diego county to collect data on the social determinants of health to explore solutions that will advance health literacy amongst low income and immigrant communities.5 community organization partnerships, 7 community trainings on streetwyze, 2,000 data points collected by community users