Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The UNC Charlotte Urban Institute collaborated with Council for Children's Rights to map all YMCA locations in Mecklenburg County. These locations were then overlaid onto maps of individual indicators from the 2010 Charlotte Neighborhood Quality of Life Study. Finally, four of these indicators (teen births, high school dropouts, juvenile arrests, and food stamp recipients) were combined into an index of youth risk factors to identify which Charlotte neighborhoods have the greatest need for teen programs and assistance and to examine how well the YMCA locations match the distribution of at-risk youth.
The map above is just the first in this series. To see the other maps in the series, click the button below.
