Use this guide to find specific information for community focused projects and classes including DHYG210 & DHYG310. Need additional help? Please don't hesitate to contact us.
Effective community work requires us to analyze every situation. Developing rigorous search strategies and routines help complete a thorough analysis.
Who Can You Trust?
Using high quality data and analyses helps you to develop programs that are based on evidence and are responsive to the needs of your community. The following resources have been identified by your instructor as useful for your projects, but you should also keep in mind the following tips for both the information you use and the information you create yourself!
| It is important to ask these questions because often we are taught to believe that what we read in a magazine or book, or on the Web is true. But this is not necessarily the case. If you cannot find an author or an organization connected to a website be very, very suspicious. If no one wants to stand behind the creation of the page why should you believe what is written there? |
Community Health Profiles
Child Development Community Profiles
The Early Development Instrument & Middle Years Development Instrument reports and resources can help you to assess how a community, and in particular how children in that community, are developing over time and in comparison with other communities. These reports and data can provide insight into challenges and demographics of BC communities. Produced by UBC School of Population and Public Health's Human Early Learning Partnership.
The EDI BC 2019 Report can be found on the Community Profiles page.
Statistics
First Nations Health Authority
Vancouver Coastal Health
Fraser Health - Dental Program
BC Healthy Kids Program
UBC Dentistry Children's Dental Program
BC 211 (formerly Red Book for community services)