1. Community Development Outcome Indicators

2. Concept and Purpose
Framework for community development organizations, including public agencies interested in community development, for decision making.  Decisions on strategies, investments and policy making. 
Can be used in Advocacy as well
Hopefully adopted by the State (similar to the 8 results for Kids)

3. Concept and Purpose (con’t)
NOT performance measures, like number of houses built or roads paved, we are thinking of outcome indicators that talk about the results of community development work on overall quality of life in communities 

4. Concept and Purpose (con’t) (adapted from JCCI’s Community Snapshot)
In other words, our indicators can be the data or information that provides insight into the trends in a community, over time. Together, the collection of community indicators tells the story about where a community is in relation to its vision and the direction in which the community is heading.  Then our organizations and agencies can make decisions and investments to move the indicators in the direction we all collectively want them to head.
(adapted from JCCI’s Community Snapshot)

5. Display Reports on CDN website Maps on CDN website
Neighborhood/Census Tract Level
Jurisdiction Level

6. Challenges
Finding indicators that will reflect urban, rural and suburban community development
Working with new state leadership

7. Examples Jacksonville Community Council, Inc. (JCCI)
Worked with residents to come up with a vision for Jacksonville and then track indicators that help them understand how they are doing in reaching their vision and results
(see handout as an example)

8. Examples (con’t) Oregon Progress Board, Oregon Benchmarks
Oregon tracks 90 indicators along three goals: Quality Jobs for all Citizens, Engaged, Caring and Safe Communities, and Healthy Sustainable Surroundings (goals of the Oregon Shines strategic plan)
Oregon state government created Oregon Shines and the Oregon Progress Board to measure progress toward the Oregon Shines vision

9. Process Phase I Current plans and indicators
Working Group is looking at all the plans and understanding those indicators. Examples include:
Opportunity Collaborative Housing Plan
Genuine Progress Indicators
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, Vital Signs
Rural MD Council

10. Process (con’t) Engage in Dialogue Asking the questions:
Why do we do the work we do? What is our vision for our neighborhoods?
What will tell us we are getting to that vision?
Audience:
Regional Coalitions, stakeholders, today’s first conversation

11. Process (con’t) Phase II
Analyze the conversations, work with Data Partner
First draft of indicators to be vetted among several stakeholders for feedback
Second draft also circulated
Final produced for Nov 2015

12. Launch
November 2015 anticipated launch date
Trainings around the state on using the indicators and gaining feedback