Library for International and Public Affairs: Homelessness: Finding and Visualizing Data to Promote Policy Change Workshop

Homelessness: Finding and Visualizing Data to Promote Policy Change

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PT

This workshop will give you a brief overview of some tools and resources that you can use to find data and use visualization tools to support your research and provide more context for addressing a social issue like homelessness and enacting change. This workshop will also cover local Los Angeles organizations and resources that work on issues such as, Covid-19, over policing of the homeless population, housing justice and more. 

Learning Objective: Participants will be able to independently find and use data to address the social work grand challenge to End Homelessness and promote policy change and understand how to access basic mapping and visualization tools to explore the data.

Theme(s): Finding Data, Visualizing Data

This workshop will be conducted via Zoom. After registration, you will receive the link and password via email one week before the workshop. This session will be recorded. 

Related LibGuide: Statistics & Data by Eimmy Solis