This manual provides technical guidance on the building, rebuilding, repair, and rehabilitation of city streets, guided by a set of principles for an evolving understanding of the importance of streets to the social and economic fabric of a community. Additionally, this manual is intended to provide the city of New Haven the tools and information needed to engage in constructive converstaions about solving local traffic problems with City staff.
In response to the closing of Shaw's Supermarket, CARE carried out a project to map New Haven neighborhoods and take inventory of places to buy food. The results showed that there is a lack of grocery stores and supermarkets in New Haven, making it difficult for people to find healthy food.
For the first time, a new, interactive map [no longer active] from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gives policy-makers and advocates a nationwide picture of continuing state efforts on key tobacco control policies. The interactive map is a wealth of information on policies related to tobacco control, cigarette taxes and prevention spending, and also features key data points about mortality, consumer behavior and public health.
Point-in-time surveys have provided the city with a snapshot of parking utilization, pedestrian counts, and bicyclist counts in downtown New Haven. The report projects future transportation and parking needs, as well as providing suggestions to meet the increased demand.
Your Food Environment Atlas is an online mapping tool that assembles statistics on food environment indicators and provides a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so. The atlas was developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service, with support from federal agencies, academia, and the private sector.
The Connecticut Association of Directors of Health ran a workshop on "Community Engagement through Facilitated Dialogue." This guide, used by the CADH's teams, was the basis for the workshop.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation addressed the importance of tailoring a message to the intended audience and created this report to outline various factors to consider in targeted messaging.
This chart provides the employment status for people in Connecticut, broken down by demographic categories such as sex, race, and ethnicity.
This report presents the results of the CARE survey in West Rock. The survey covered topics including general health, stress, exercise, and smoking.
This report presents the result of CARE's survey of the West River and Dwight neighborhoods. The survey looked at the areas of general health, stress, exercise, and smoking.