Through a partnership between Philadelphia nonprofit Congreso and Drexel’s Urban Health Collaborative at the Dornsife School of Public Health, researchers have charted neighborhood-specific violence numbers in parts of eastern North Philadelphia that are home to the city’s Latino population.
Those numbers were unveiled publicly on a new website, NUAVNow.org, accessible to neighborhood-based community organizations, which can use the data and maps in back-up requests for grants. Standing for “Neighborhood United Against Violence,” NUAV aggregates data from different sources, all customized to describe violence and related factors in eastern North Philadelphia, and displayed through mapping. The neighborhoods are spread across multiple city police and public health districts, so numbers specific to this community are not easy to find.
NUAVNow also includes a continuously updated, map-driven directory of violence prevention resources such as behavioral health programs and youth development services.
“We hope it becomes a go-to source for anyone trying to figure out trends,” says Amy Eusebio, director of Family Wellness at Congreso, which seeks to boost the economic self-sufficiency of the city’s Latino community.