Key Topics
KEY TOPICS
Statistics and community indicators are a starting point, a launching point for a bigger story. The stories behind the numbers provide important context for our indicators, painting the more complex realities of society.
Our Key Topics can help remind you of these larger narratives and seek new framing or fresh perspective.
Consider this your brain food, nutrition for healthy thought!
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- Achievement Gap
- Arts and Culture
- Banking
- Bill Gates
- Catalyze
- Census
- Common Ground Health
- Communicate
- Community Vitality
- Connect
- Continuous Improvement
- Curate
- Data
- Demographics
- Early Childhood
- Education
- Environmental Justice & Sustainability
- Equity
- Gentrification
- Housing
- Impact
- Inclusion
- K-12 Education
- Measurement
- Mental Health
- PDSA
- Poverty
- Public Safety
- Research Design
- Social Capital
- Transportation
- Upward Mobility
- Voter Participation
- Workforce
- Youth
- Zoning
Curated Article: Promoting a Culture of Caring in Education
In the summer 2024 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, there is an article that uses many of the buzz words and phrases that our community has oft discussed lately: systems change, mental health crisis, change organization, and social connectedness. The article, found here, is a comprehensive look at efforts to improve mental health for school-age youth.
With the 2024 Olympics in Paris coming up and athletes like Simeon Biles and Michael Phelps working to reduce the stigma around mental health, there is momentum toward positive change. What can you learn? What role can you play?