IP3 uses a unique approach to data analysis and outputs that supports decision-making, prioritization, and stakeholder engagement.

1. Data Frameworks: When examining data to inform an action plan, long lists of indicators aren’t helpful because they fail to shed light on levers you can actually pull to improve your community. You may know that your community has above-average rates of diabetes, with a disproportionate effect on low-income residents, and that your community’s rate of unemployment is also higher than average, but what exactly does that mean for your implementation plan?

IP3 ASSESS applies data analysis to compute a composite score for each domain in a framework, allowing users to compare data not traditionally comparable. For example, users can compare their community’s relative score for transportation to its relative score for meaningful work and wealth to guide decision-making around which of the two areas to invest in. The biggest benefit of using data frameworks is that you can more easily go from community assessment to community improvement. Frameworks include categories that reflect common community programming and organizational structures, such as transportation, housing, and urgent services, where the work actually happens in communities! Learn More.

2. Going from Insight to Action: IP3 ASSESS has seamless integration with Community Commons and its powerful back-end Knowledgebase. On Community Commons, we’ve curated thousands of resources, data/mapping tools, and success stories from around the web that can inform and inspire meaningful community change and help users more quickly enter into on-the-ground community improvement work. Community Commons resources are linked to each indicator, data framework, and framework domain on IP3 ASSESS.

IP3 ASSESS reports and data dashboards enable users to easily pair quantitative and qualitative data alongside narrative to include local context, stories, and images/videos. By sharing or embedding IP3 ASSESS reports, more people can use the data to inform local community decisions. Click to view some example reports below.

Social Connection Dashboard | Vibrant Inland Empire | Vital Conditions for Well-Being in Delaware

3. The IP3 Team: IP3 is a nonprofit organization working to create healthy, equitable, sustainable communities that advance well-being now and for future generations. We build capacity for transformative change through movement from community insight to concerted action. Our team are experts when it comes to community data and provide consultation and support related to data in context to all IP3 ASSESS users, helping them explore appropriate measures and derive actionable insights from data.

The vital conditions for well-being framework focuses attention on a small but comprehensive set of seven conditions that all people need to reach their full potential for health and well-being. It succinctly summarizes the properties of places and institutions that shape everyone's potential to thrive. It is accessible and encompasses an array of opportunities, obstacles, exposures, and choices that we each encounter from birth to death and across generations.

The framework presents an actionable, asset-based approach to address and advance beyond social determinants of health and inequities. Notably, the framework identifies core elements needed to create a thriving community, rather than measures of productivity or descriptions of vulnerabilities or negative determinants. The vital conditions framework has roots in the community and is centered on “belonging and civic muscle.” This centering is because civic engagement is key to building community capacity. Local, self-driven solutions are critical to addressing local community needs—and ultimately to fostering community leadership to build an equitable, thriving future. 

The vital conditions framework makes data more digestible and inclusive and simplifies the way communities, local health departments, and health systems can collaborate to improve equitable well-being. IP3 ASSESS enables those who want to use the vital conditions to do so easily—the platform organizes data by frameworks to analyze and present data in a digestible, actionable way. Each framework is made up of a series of relevant domains (in this case, the seven vital conditions) and indicators that populate each domain. Users can quickly understand how a given community or geographic area fairs relative to the state or Nation when it comes to each vital condition, as well as each individual measure. The platform’s shareable reports include compelling data visualizations and enable users to spotlight specific topics or areas of need, equipping users to go more quickly into community action.

Learn How the Vital Conditions Framework and IP3 ASSESS Support West Virginia Communities.

Learn how the Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) leveraged IP3 ASSESS to support access to and interpretation of data to complete their required Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). IEHP was looking to save time accessing and analyzing data to identify the top health and well-being needs in the region, explore data through the Vital Conditions Framework, and have a data solution that made it easier to do meaningful community engagement.

Learn how the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Midwest Early Recovery Fund leverages IP3 ASSESS to streamline its data collection and analysis to inform grant-making, and recovery and relief support to communities affected by natural disasters.

Learn how the Center for Rural Health Development (Center) works to improve the health of West Virginians and strengthen West Virginia’s healthcare delivery system, especially in rural communities. The Center’s Wild, Wonderful, and Healthy West Virginia program leverages IP3 ASSESS to introduce and norm the use of the Vital Conditions for Well-Being framework throughout the state. Exploring data organized by the framework provides more alignment across communities and enables local stakeholders to identify community priorities and areas for investment to address health and economic disparities and advance equitable well-being.

Learn how Healthy Communities Delaware (HCD) is a collaborative initiative that works on community-driven priorities around the vital conditions—conditions into which we are born, grow, live, learn, work and play that affect our health. HCD builds capacity for local-level organizations and coalitions through providing funding and technical assistance and uses IP3 ASSESS to explore and share data for local communities working to advance equitable well-being throughout the state of Delaware.

IP3 ASSESS is designed to integrate well with other tools. Specifically, IP3 ASSESS reports/dashboards can be easily embedded into other websites or tools, and vice versa. We know that lots of amazing data tools exist at the national, state, and local level—users can embed your favorite data outputs into IP3 ASSESS reports or embed reports and visualizations from IP3 ASSESS into other websites.

Click here to see an IP3 ASSESS report embedded on another website. (On the page, scroll down and click 1. Review Data and Trends)

Click here to see a Tableau visualization embedded on an IP3 ASSESS report.