About
Overview
Timely, accurate, and accessible data empowers individuals, leaders, and organizations to take collective action and change our communities for the better - but data can be noisy. For community decision makers, it can be challenging to translate complex, often siloed, data into collective narratives, action, and impact. A Community Wellbeing Dashboard empowers communities, leaders, and organizations with the real-time information needed to take action and adapt decisions to affect positive change. As a highly collaborative effort, a Community Wellbeing Dashboard builds relationships and trust across sectors, growing local and regional capacity to collaborate on bigger and more complex issues.
Collaboration
A dashboard project is a highly collaborative process. Contributing dashboard partners commit to participating in a dashboard collaborative. Dashboard collaboratives help identify and prioritize focus area metrics, review iterations of the dashboard, serve as ambassadors for the dashboard, and abide by the co-created principles for the collaborative effort. Contributing partners typically serve in working groups that help shape the dashboard, providing input on how and what data is presented and how it is linked to other community resources.
LegacyWorks Group stewards the dashboard development process and its maintenance over time, holding it in trust for the contributing partners and the community as a whole. This includes facilitating the dashboard collaborative and staffing systems for continuous improvement of the dashboard platform and user experience. With input from the collaborative, the LegacyWorks dashboarding team manages and sustains the organization, visualization, and presentation of the data long term.
Community sponsors also play an important role in many of our dashboarding projects. Sponsors are businesses, foundations, and philanthropic individuals who financially support our collaborative dashboard projects. Sponsors help make our dashboard enterprise accessible, inclusive, and sustainable.
Equity and Resilience
By sharing priority metrics and making connections between and within each focus area, we hope to enable community members and decision makers to gain a better understanding of how different subsets of the community are impacted in proportionate and disproportionate ways. This information can then be used to help guide policy making and develop programs to better address inequities, meet individual and community needs, and build pathways to increase resilience for all members of our communities.
Interested in building a Wellbeing Dashboard in your community? Contact us!
The Santa Barbara County Community Wellbeing Dashboard
The Santa Barbara County Community Wellbeing Dashboard project initiated in 2024.
Partners
Full list of all partners in alphabetical order
See Focus Area pages for Focus Area-specific partners.
Adult Services
Allan Hancock College
American Indian Health Services
Antenore & Associates
Apples to Zucchini Cooking School
Bethania Lutheran Church - Food Distribution
BeWell
Boys and Girl Club
C4CALM
Carlisle Nonprofit Services
Carpinteria Children's Project
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families
CenCal Health
Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens
Children and Family Resource Centers
Coastal Housing Coalition
CommUnify
Community Environmental Council
Community Health Centers Central Coast
Community Systems Consulting
Corazón LatinoCottage Health
County of Santa Barbara
Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center
Dignity Moves
Eileen Monahan Consulting
Family Service Agency
Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley
First 5
Foodbank of Santa Barbara
Frank Thompson Housing Consultants
Freedom 4 Youth - Culinary Youth Program
Future Leaders Now
Girls Inc.
Habitat for Humanity
Healing Space at UCSB
Housing Authority for the City of Santa Barbara
Housing Authority of Santa Barbara County
Housing Trust Fund of Santa Barbara County
Hutton Parker
Innovative Produce
IV Food Coop
James S. Bower Foundation
Kids In Nutrition (KIN)
League of Women Voters
LEAP
Líderes Campesinas
Lompoc Adult School and Career Center
Lompoc Unified School District
Lompoc Valley Community Health Organization
LUSD and Children's Scorecard
Maria Chesley, Ph.D., Community Systems Consultant
Marian Regional Medical Center Foundation
Meals on Wheels for Santa Barbara
Mental Wellness Center
Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)
Natalie Orfalea Foundation
New Beginnings
Northern Santa Barbara County United Way
Organic Soup Kitchen
People Helping People
People’s Self Help Housing
Planned Parenthood CA Central Coast (PPCCC)
Promotoras de Salud
Proyecto Esperanza (Our Lady of Guadalupe)
Rooted Santa Barbara County
Route 1 Farmer's Market
RRM Design Group
Safe Passage Youth Foundation
Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Santa Barbara Alliance for Community Transformation (SB Act)
Santa Barbara Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse (CADA)
Santa Barbara County Children’s Resource and Referral
Santa Barbara County Department of Social Services
Santa Barbara County Education Office
Santa Barbara County Food Action Network (SBCFAN)
Santa Barbara County Health Department
Santa Barbara County Planning and Development
Santa Barbara County Workforce Development Board
Santa Barbara Foundation
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics (SBNC)
Savie HealthSBCAG
SBCC Basic Needs Center
Schiele Family Foundation
SoCal Grantmakers Network
St Marks (Los Olivos)
Storyteller Center
The Fund for Santa Barbara
The La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation
The Towbes Foundation
Transitional Care Center: Dignity Health
Transitions Mental Health
UC Global Health Institute (UCGHI) & UCSB Health Equity Initiatives
UC Santa Barbara, Economic Forecast Project
UC Santa Barbara, Mental Health Collaborative
UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy
USDAVeggie Rescue
Women's Economic Ventures (WEV)
Youthwell