1. By: Vanessa K. Valenzuela Mentor: Dr. Barron Orr
Community Asset Mapping
Geospatial Technology Integration in Youth Driven Community Asset Mapping Projects
By: Vanessa K. Valenzuela
Mentor: Dr. Barron Orr

2. Project Aim
By working with youth driven Community Asset Mapping projects and helping to facilitate the continued integration of technology into these projects, our group has been working to identify best practices and processes that can make this kind of geospatial technology transfer more successful and more readily adoptable by other groups working with youth.
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3. What is Youth Driven Community Asset Mapping?
Youth identify issues in their communities and drive the decision-making process that leads to positive change.
Objectives:
Youth empowerment
Civic engagement and purposeful decision-making
Mastery of new skills and technology
Identifying research questions and defining an approach for data collection
Analysis, interpretation, problem-solving
- CAM: focuses on a community’s assets in addition to problems
-Issues are relevant TO THE YOUTH this is imperative to the process
-Youth empowerment helping the youth to find their voice

4. Youth Driven Community Asset Mapping
Goal: Youth Engagement and Empowerment within their own Communities
Dr. Barron Orr facilitating the youth’s planning
Processes that help youth define and achieve their goals
Problems that are “place based” allow for the integration and analysis of geospatial data.
Mission and Vision
Identifying Major Issues and Posing the Right Questions
Determining Methods and Data Sources
Methods
Conducting the Research

5. Technology Integration:
Garmin GPSmap 60
Handheld Computer (iPAQ)
Geospatial Toolkit
“where”
“what” +
Douglas, Arizona Youth and Youth Leaders Analyzing Spatial Data
Geospatial Information System (ArcGIS)
Area of interest within greater community
(Ironwood Tree Experience)
TerraServer-USA.com
Google Earth Google Maps
Mapping
Location, navigation, mapping input
Imagery
Provide context for users
Spatial Analysis
Allows for analysis, & manipulation
Visualization
store, share & communicate

6. Example: Ironwood Tree Experience (ITE)
What data do we need?
Issue
Analysis
Outcomes
Needed a comprehensive assessment of components of a lot to be revitalized to serve as a community green space for youth
Primary Data:
Collected by youth with technology
Secondary Data:
- Lot boundary from the county
Use of ArcGIS in the lab to aggregate data and analyze what was collected by all of the youth on their GTKs
-Youth presented work at a community gathering
-Map of green lot
So you might be thinking…what does this technology integration actually look like?
(ITE youth and UA students in the Office of Arid Lands Studies GTK lab)
(Finalized and uploaded by Kristin Wisneski, UA graduate student)
(TerraServer-USA imagery)
(ITE youth and Space Grant Intern)

7. Impact and The Future
What we see: We see youth like Dezirae who are quick adopters of this kind of technology. After learning Google maps, I caught her mapping her house and her friends houses before a meeting. These were all skills she had learned while working on her community asset mapping project. This is what we want to see spread to other youth… this kind of adoption and ownership of the technology and the ability to apply it to every day life.
Part of working toward the replication of this kind of technology integration and adoption in other groups is increasing the accessibility to directions and practices for doing so. It is our hope that we can soon make use of public sites and platforms such as NGTEN or a new wiki-based platform called eXtension to disseminate the practices and processes of geospatial technology integration that we have been identifying through our obstacles and successes in working with Youth Driven Community Asset Mapping Projects.

8. Pascua Yaqui Intel Clubhouse Ironwood Tree Experience
Thank You
Thank you to the youth and leaders of:
Pascua Yaqui Intel Clubhouse
SOS Douglas
Ironwood Tree Experience
Special thanks to:
Kristin Wisneski, University of Arizona graduate student in Rangeland Sciences
Lynne Borden,Ph.D, Extension Specialist, Division of Family Studies and Human Development