Community Wellbeing Dashboard

Last year we partnered with the Santa Barbara County CEO’s Office and six County departments to develop and launch a Community Wellbeing Dashboard that reports on an array of metrics across nine key focus areas. Together we developed a community wellbeing framework that allows us to identify and report on key factors that contribute to community wellness, creating a tool to inform decision making and track progress over time. There are nine different data focus areas such as health and wellness, affordable housing and community connectedness. Metrics are presented for a variety of subtopics and provide windows into our collective wellbeing. As with our other work, creating this dashboard has been a highly collaborative community effort, involving the active leadership and engagement of dozens of community leaders, County departments, nonprofits, philanthropists and businesses. The dashboard is still in the internal prototype stage - look for a future email from us when it is ready for launch!