Course description: This course will familiarize students with the basic knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS) and their application to social work practice and research. The course is organized around three primary areas: 1) conceptual; 2) technical; and 3) data management. A conceptual overview of GIS is presented to provide students with foundational knowledge about the theory, purpose, function, and applicability of GIS in practice and research settings. Students will develop critical thinking skills necessary to devise research questions appropriate for a GIS, to develop a GIS, interpret the findings, and to evaluate the spatial relationships between variables.
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Subsidized Housing in St. Louis: Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Property Development and Access to Resources
Maria Estlund and Maria Samaniego
6-30-2014This project seeks to determine if, and to what extent, LIHTC properties are being developed in QCTs in St. Louis City and County and determine if tenants of LIHTC properties in St. Louis City and County have adequate access to community resources.
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Hazardous Waste Generators: Social Justice Implications for King County, Washington
Christopher Fan and Marcella Gardner
12-12-2014Hazardous Waste Generators (LQGs) can be placed in almost any location, creating serious repercussions for residents around them. Hazardous waste carries severe health risks to humans, such as cancers, respiratory conditions, heart disease, neurobehavioral issues, liver and kidney damage, and many other health implications (CDC). This poster examines whether there is a correlation between locations of LQGs and race/ethnicity, income, and/or children in King County.
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OASIS and the Diabetes Self-Management Program: Identifying Areas of Need in St. Louis, MO
Ian Ferguson
5-4-2014This project looks at what zip-codes in St. Louis, MO are in high need fordiabetes programming, and where are the current DSMP class locations relative to areas of high need.
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Healthy Youth Partnership
Carl Filler and Christopher Hamilton
12-12-2014Healthy Youth Partnership, Inc. (HYP) is a coalition of organizations and institutions from diverse sectors confronting the crisis of youth obesity in the St. Louis Region, with a mission to “work to eliminate youth obesity through collaborations that promote healthy eating and active living in the St. Louis Region.” The mapping project will map and analyze the location of grocery and convenience stores in North City, information that will be a critical component of the community food assessment.
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Affective Disorders in St. Louis Region: The Risk Factors of Poverty and Race
Linyun Fu and Li-Tzu Tu
5-4-2014This project examines whether community poverty rate correlates with the rate of affective disorder; a community with a lower household income has a higher rate of affective disorders. It also studies the African American population rate of a community is associated with the rate of affective disorder; the community with a larger African American population rate has a higher rate of affective disorders.
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Spatial Analysis of St. Louis County 2013 Chlamydia Cases Identifying Neighborhood for Priority Resource Allocation
Ruth Gallego
6-30-2014This project examines what neighborhoods are high priority for STD interventions, asks if proximity to a public health clinic/STD testing facility is associated with lower chlamydia rates, and asks what other social factors are associated with high chlamydia rates.
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Evaluating Potential Sites for Community Gardens in St. Louis County, Missouri
Fanaye Gebeyaw, Michelle Juodenas, and Julie Weng
5-4-2014This project identifies potential community garden sites for Gateway Greening in Saint Louis County, Missouri.
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Mental Health and Offender Reentry in St. Louis
Rebecca Gernes and Sadie Pierce
12-12-2014This project examines the distribution and access to services for released offenders in the St. Louis metro area.
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Manganese Emissions and Urban Incident Parkinson Disease: An Exploration of the Impact of Air Pollutant Databases on Exposure Misclassification
Kelsey Haddad
12-9-2014This project aims to assemble a database for the manganese releases to air in the United States from the three available inventories furnished by the USEPA (TRI, NEI, NATA) and to reate a model to efficiently condition the data for different health effects studies and visualize the results of this conditioning. The project will also explore the exposure misclassification associated with using different sources of air pollutant emissions data for epidemiologic investigations relating adverse health outcomes with air pollutant concentrations.
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Using Geographic Information Systems to Increase Hospitals That Support Breastfeeding in California
Anna Hardy and Erin Hinckley
6-30-2014This project examines which maternity hospitals have the lowest “any breastfeeding” (ABF=given formula or only breast milk) and “exclusive breastfeeding” (EBF=given only breast milk) rates that serve the highest populations of mothers with MediCal (California’s version of Medicaid) insurance, noting that these hospitals serve as prime candidates to target BFHI dissemination.
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Substitute Care Contexts & Former Foster Youth
Judy Havlicek
12-12-2014This poster is part of a beginning effort to map the geography of movement for a sample of youth who reached the age of majority during foster placement. Although a handful of studies have attempted to view placement instability dynamically (Usher et al., 1999; James et al., 2004; Wulczyn et al., 2003; Havlicek, in press), there have been no attempts to capture the geographic landscape of placement changes over time. Moreover, surprisingly little empirical work has examined former foster youth in the context of their experiences in the child welfare system (Wulczyn, 2009). Much of what is known about foster youth comes from survey studies of foster youth making the transition to adulthood.
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Where is Hope Moving in? A Geospatial Analysis of a St. Louis City Homelessness Prevention Program
Mary Hegel and Hena Banerjee
12-12-2014The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funded the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP). HPRP funds $8.1 million of the $8.4 million budget of St. Louis City’s Hope Is Moving In Initiative (HIMI). The City subgranted HIMI funds to four homelessness prevention service providers, who operated in four zones that were designated by city political boundaries (wards). This study is concerned with the funding for homelessness prevention services allocated to agencies serving the NE, NW, SE, SW regions of St. Louis City.
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Saving for Education in American Indian Communities
Amy L. Hertel and Mary Elizabeth Jäger
12-12-2014Efforts are underway to make saving for post-secondary education in a 529 college savings plan (plan) more attractive and accessible to minority and lower-income families. There were two objectives for this pilot study. The first was to geospatially assess NC 529 College Savings Plan (NC 529 Plan or Plan) awareness and ownership patterns among American Indians in North Carolina. The second was to identify significant predictors of saving for post-secondary education among American Indian participants living in North Carolina.
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FQHC Accessibility for St. Louis City Youth and Families
Philip Horn
5-4-2014This project aims to discover which FQHCs in the St. Louis City region are accessible, taking crime statistics and public transit stops into account and to determine classifications of need for each St. Louis Public K-8 School accounting for public transit time and FQHC accessibility.
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Environmental Justice in Missouri: Waste Sites and Demographics
Dannie Hyelim Shin
12-9-2014Environmental justice is an important public health concept that addresses health disparities. This study aims investigate whether there exist relationships between the number of waste sites and the demographic variables of census tracts in Missouri. Findings in this study call for more active discourse on the disproportionate distribution of environmental exposures.