DASH Releases ABCD Workbooks

Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) released two workbooks to help communities recognize data as an important asset in improving health equity.

The workbooks Improving Health Equity through ABCD and Using Data to Tell Your Community’s Story were developed over the course of DASH’s ABCD funding program in 2022.

The workbooks highlight the importance of data and provide guidance and tools to build powerful communities. Multi-sector data can support better practices, inform policy, identify how current systems reinforce inequity, and challenge dominant narratives.

Please find the download links at the bottom.

DASH maintains that people represented by data must play meaningful interpretative and decision-making roles in the data-sharing process. We believe that powerful community-driven initiatives come about when ABCD organizers understand the importance of data.

The publications are not copyright protected, and you do not need to obtain written or verbal permission to reproduce and disseminate these resources.

Darryl Answer of Verge Solutions and Ron Dwyer-Voss of Pacific Community Solutions, who partnered with DASH to lead the Asset-Based Community Development learning cohort in 2022, authored these workbooks along with Beckah Terlouw of Invisible Strategy Consulting. We extend our gratitude to them and to all the ABCD cohort participants.

Using Data to Tell Your Community’s Story:

Improving Health Equity through ABCD: