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Abstract
Enhancing Local Coordination and Collaboration Through GIS
Track: Health and Human Services
Author(s): Karen Elizabeth Frederickson, Sharon Kandris
The Social Assets and Vulnerabilities Indicators (SAVI) database is a comprehensive database of social indicators developed for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Statistical Area. By GIS enabling and incorporating data from local government and community sources into a common Web-accessible database and providing Web-based mapping and query capabilities, SAVI facilitates communication between local community planning and human service agencies and provides common ground upon which collaboration and coordination are facilitated. SAVI reduces redundancy in data development efforts and ensures that agencies are working with the same reference information. SAVI draws information from a wide variety of sources and includes census, criminal justice, health, vital statistics, education, and welfare data as well as the locations of social service agencies, service delivery catchment areas, churches, libraries, and other community facilities. The benefits and lessons derived from the development of the SAVI community information system will be discussed, and the SAVI-interactive Web page developed using MapObjects will be demonstrated (http://www.savi.org).
Karen Elizabeth Frederickson
Indiana University
1200 Waterway Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46219
USA
Phone: 317-274-2296
Fax: 317-278-1830
E-mail: kfrederi@iupui.edu