From Deficits to Strengths: Reimagining How to Measure Child and Family Well-being
Channel: BetaNYC
Date: 2023-03-30

NYC Open Data Week 2023 - Mar 15 2023 

Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York (CCC) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that combines public policy research and data analysis with citizen action to ensure that every New York City child is healthy, housed, educated, and safe.

Each year, CCC produces its Child and Family Well-Being Index (CFWBI) for New York City, and more recently for New York State. These indices analyze where risks to child and family well-being concentrate across the New York City Community Districts and across all counties in New York State. They offer a monitoring tool to measure progress on the conditions within and inequities between communities, illustrating how community conditions are shaped by structural racism, and drawing attention to where greater investments would promote health equity and well-being.

We have grown critical of this tool because of the deficit-based focus on risk. Deficit-based approaches, including those that come from a place of benevolence, have historically framed communities of color as pathologized and broken, often obscuring the systemic influences that create harmful conditions in these communities. We seek to strengthen this analytic tool and others like it with input from organizations working in underserved communities.

We invite you to think about your own experiences and how deficit-based thinking might be present or challenged in your work. We will transition to break-out rooms to discuss strategies for making a shift toward strength-based narratives.

ORGANIZERS: Citizens’ Committee for Children, Bijan Kimiagar, Cristina Onea, Marija Drobnjak, Rimsha Khan

https://2023.open-data.nyc/event/from-deficits-to-strengths-reimagining-how-to-measure-child-and-family-well-being/

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ABOUT OPEN DATA WEEK
Open Data Week is an annual festival of community-driven events organized and produced by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics and BetaNYC. Every year, New Yorkers come together all across the five boroughs to celebrate New York City’s Open Data Law, which was signed into law on March 7, 2012. Coincidentally, the first weekend of March is also International Open Data Day.  With these dates anchoring Open Data Week, we rally NYC’s civic tech and open data communities and offer opportunities for more people to learn about and engage with municipal open data. https://www.open-data.nyc/

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