Upstate populations suffer from among the worst health inequities in California and, as a job creation and human infrastructure development opportunity, the hope is that, region by region, our program will increase the ways in which artists are engaged in public work, so that they can continue to build upon intersectional public interest goals beyond the program’s pilot funding timeline.The State has offered The California Healthy Places Index (HPI) as a new method of evaluating the relative health of communities, and as a well as a way to gauge the impact of projects funded by the Creative Corps. The Healthy Places Index shows, almost without exception – including the few places with overall health scores in the upper quartiles – that there are health equity measures that fall within the lowest quartile of ‘Community Conditions.’ These indicators determine a community’s health, and provide us with vital clues about how to move the needle in our most vulnerable neighborhoods.
Learn more about the Healthy Places Index and how your community scores here.
