Stay up-to-date with the ISC December 2014 newsletter

Amy Hawn Nelson, director of ISC and director of research at the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, was the recipient of the YWCA Women of Achievement award. Click here to read more.

ISC data and research coordinator Ashley Williams Clark presents on ISC at the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership meeting in Denver, CO along with Laura Simmons from UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, Rebecca Hefner with the City of Charlotte, and Timothy Tibbs with Mecklenburg County. Charlotte recently became the newest NNIP partner.

Dr. Mason Haber, assistant professor in the UNC Charlotte Department of Psychology, is the recipient of the first ISC Faculty Research Grant. Haber will use the funds from the grant to assist with his project Adult Outcomes of Youth Formerly in Public Behavioral Health Programs: The Role of Transition Services, which will utilize linked data from the ISC Community Database.

ISC continues to grow its data deposits and sign new data sharing agreements with community partners. Over the next few months these data will be deposited into the ISC Database and added to the ISC Codebook.
 

Awaiting Deposit	Current Data Deposits
Charlotte Housing Authority	Central Piedmont Community College (project specific deposits)
Mecklenburg Partnership for Children (SmartStart)	Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools
The Relatives	Homeless Management Information Systems
Crisis Assistance Ministry	Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services-- Youth and Family Services, Economic Services, and Services for Adults.
Cabarrus County Schools	Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office
Kannapolis City Schools	A Child’s Place
	Communities in Schools
	Mecklenburg County Support Services, Veteran’s Services
	Charlotte Family Housing
	Communities in Schools

Alyssa Brown, UNC Charlotte graduate student
Alyssa joined the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and Institute for Social Capital in August 2014. As a graduate assistant, she assists the ISC team on program functions and also works on research projects and program evaluations regarding education and homelessness. Alyssa received her B.A. in Political Science at Virginia Tech and is now pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Administration at UNC Charlotte. Upon graduating from the program, she hopes to continue to work in social science research.

Mick Smythwood, UNC Charlotte PhD student
Mick, a UNC Charlotte Computing and Informatics doctoral student, joined the Institute for Social Capital to assist with the technical aspects of the ISC Community Database as well as with the development of data dictionaries for our deposits. Having worked for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and consulting locally for Duke Energy, is a jack-of-all-trades and brings a variety of skills to the institute. A graduate from Johns Hopkins University, Mick values being a part of research efforts that benefit the community.

Title: United Way of Central Carolinas Collective Impact for Children and Youth Year 2 Report

Author: UNC Charlotte Urban Institute

Study description: United Way of Central Carolinas launched a Collective Impact initiative in the fall of 2011. The 10-year initiative brings together 16 agencies in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina that provide services to children from pre-kindergarten through high school. The common goal is to increase the cohort graduation rate for the at-risk, low-performing students served by these agencies.

United Way commissioned the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute to coordinate and maintain a shared measurement system for the Collective Impact initiative. This includes assisting partner agencies in a long-term outcome evaluation and housing selected shared data in the Institute for Social Capital community database. Year 2 of the study provides a snapshot of the children and youth being served by this group of agencies. Click here for the full report.

ISC has compiled a list of grant opportunities that could be used to conduct research using the ISC community database.

Grantor/Granting Agency	Type of Grant (RFP, Application Letter, LOI, etc.)	Due Date	Abstract
US DOJ	Application	TBD	Criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice.