Our Priorities Overview

The Coastal Georgia Indicators Coalition is comprised of community members and advocates working together through a comprehensive, coordinated approach for planning and accountability and serves as a resource for agencies addressing overall health and well-being while leveraging resources for community initiatives. The purpose of the Coalition is to improve community well-being by engaging and leading the community to work collectively in its development of strategic priorities that guide policy, programs and resource allocation.

The United Way of the Coastal Empire, Inc. serves as the lead agency for the Coalition in partnership with approximately 20 local organizations that include: City of Savannah, Chatham County Commission, local hospitals, primary and post-secondary education. Thanks from support of local sponsors and a grant received from Healthcare Georgia Foundation; the Coalition has more than 100 indicators in a user-friendly website with live, up-to-date, concise data across multiple areas.

Through surveys, focus groups, neighborhood forums and a community summit; needs were identified and affirmed with the data as highlighted below within four major topic areas:

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ECONOMY

Economic Independence is defined as income, income supports and housing.

Vocational Pathways and Job Training
Affordable Housing
People under the age of 18 living in poverty

EDUCATION

The goal of education is to facilitate intellectual development and to enable young adults to become contributing and productive members of their community

Access to affordable, quality early childhood programs
Ensure students are proficient in math and reading at 2^nd grade, 4^th grade and 7^th grade.
Reduce school dropout rate, while increasing high school graduation

HEALTH

Health is defined by access to quality services; the absence of chronic disease and communicable diseases; maternal and infant health; mental health and healthy lifestyles.

Promote an increase in access to health education, prevention and treatment; specific to cancer and obesity.
Address challenges with babies born pre-maturely, low-birth weight babies to reduce the infants who die before their first birthday.

QUALITY OF LIFE

Quality of life is characterized by measuring safety, physical environment, transportation, access to food and social habits. The mixture of information considers perception and reality of crime, pollution, and access to recreation, food, community, social interaction, and more.

Transportation
Violent Crime Rate