DataHaven
March 03, 2023
Fairfield County’s Community Foundation, Bridgeport Hospital, Danbury Hospital, Greenwich Hospital, Norwalk Hospital, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Stamford Hospital, area cities and towns, and other partners including United Way of Coastal Fairfield County, United Way of Western Connecticut, the Connecticut Health Foundation, and Supportive Housing Works.
[Excerpt from feature article by Emily DiSalvo and Taylor Johnston, 2/4/2023]
As far as Elijah Hilliman can tell, I-84 "was built to get people out of Hartford." Like Dunkin' Donuts Park, a minor league baseball stadium across the street from his coffee shop, Hilliman says the highway wasn't built for residents of Hartford.
"It cuts, specifically, the North End of Hartford off,” Hilliman said. “So, in that aspect, it's very racially motivated. So, the North End is all Black people. We don't have access to pretty much anything."
Link:
https://www.ctinsider.com/projects/2023/hartford-connecticut-residents-navigate-highway-divide/
This is a CSV (raw data) file with the state, county, and town-level data used in our community profile pages, updated with 2021 5-year ACS data (released by Census Bureau in December 2022). For Connecticut counties and select Connecticut towns, the dataset also contains a small number of estimates from the DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey. Please refer to the survey page for full crosstabs and results.
The CSV may be downloaded using the "Document" link below.
Document:
5year2021town_profile_expanded_CWS.csv
[Excerpt from feature article by Eddy Martinez]
ANSONIA — Ansonia and Derby share an industrial past. And although the two cities are frequent rivals when it comes to everything from economic development to high school football, they also share a common problem — poverty.
The two cities trail the state and the rest of the lower Naugatuck Valley communities in median income. And the gap is widening.
Link:
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Valley-Foundation-report-shows-increases-in-17601371.php
Alison Johnson (VCF), Mark Abraham, Kelly Davila, Camille Seaberry (DataHaven)
November 11, 2022
Valley Community Foundation, Griffin Hospital, Naugatuck Valley Health Department
This 2022 report is part of an ongoing, decades-long tradition of analyzing social and economic conditions and quality of life in the Lower Naugatuck Valley region. The effort has included the 1996 Healthy Valley Report, the 2001 Mt. Auburn Report, the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center Community Health Profile, the 2010 Valley Cares Report, the 2013 Griffin Hospital Community Health Needs Assessment, and the Naugatuck Valley Health District’s 2013-2015 Community Health Improvement Plan.
The Valley Community Index report document may be downloaded by clicking on the Document link below. Please see the main report page for details (on the main report page, you may also download the report using the blue button).
Document:
VCF2022_CommunityIndex.pdf
[Excerpt of feature article by Erik Ofgang, which appeared in C-HIT as well as in major newspapers like the Hartford Courant]
Kamyle Dunn used to sleep with her hand resting on her mother’s chest so she could feel it expand and contract and know that her mom hadn’t stopped breathing during the night.
Dunn’s mother, Maria Cotto, has long had severe asthma. Dunn inherited the condition, though she has mostly grown out of it as an adult. Now, Dunn’s 12-year-old son also has severe asthma.
Link:
https://c-hit.org/2022/10/27/race-economics-environment-continue-to-drive-states-asthma-disparities/
Kelly Davila, Camille Seaberry
October 10, 2022
Connecticut Office of Rural Health
Introduction (excerpt)
This 2022 report is an update and expansion upon “An Assessment of Rural Health in Connecticut: Overview, Obstacles, and Opportunities” — the previous rural health assessment completed in 2015.
This 2022 report is an update and expansion upon “An Assessment of Rural Health in Connecticut: Overview, Obstacles, and Opportunities”—the previous rural health assessment completed in 2015.
Document:
Rural_Health_in_Connecticut.pdf
[Excerpt of article by Christine Stuart, 9/27/22]
The U.S. Census Bureau announced last week that the federal child tax credit contributed to a decline in child poverty and a new survey from DataHaven and Siena College Research Institute found that since its expiration food insecurity for families with children has nearly doubled.
Link:
https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2022/09/27/food-insecurity-doubles-for-families-with-children/
