UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY GEO 509 Spatial Analysis of the Lexington Youth Initiative Survey Community Partners: Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice Amanda Witbeck and Zachary Nicholas 1/1/2012 Community Partners Organization: Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice Group members: Amanda Witbeck amanda.witbeck@gmail.com Zachary Nicholas zsnich2@g.uky.edu Community Partners: Kerby Neill tkneill@earthlink.net Bruce Mundy mundy46@yahoo.com Page | 1 Table of Contents Project Summary Page 3 Needs Assessment Report Page 4 Progress Report Page 6 Data Dictionary Page 9 Final Maps and Outputs Page 13 Conclusion Page 27 Page | 2 Project Summary Our goals for this project were to create useable maps that can be distributed showing the relationship between youth and accessibility to possible outreach programs for the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice in Lexington Kentucky. We took data from the Lexington Youth Initiative Survey and created maps to show a spatial relationship of potential youth service programs and the council districts in which they are located. We collected various Excel files showing basic demographics for the area. We collected shape files for the Fayette County council districts for 2012. We also incorporated 2010 LexTran routes to show the accessibility issues of transportation to and from possible youth outreach programs. We gathered information about churches and organizations in Lexington related to youth outreach and geocoded the addresses from an excel spreadsheet into ArcGIS. In order to show the spatial relationship of these outreach opportunities to each council district we joined the two together to create chloropleth maps showing the priorities of the youth in the survey and the locations of churches and organizations. Page | 3 Zachary Nicholas & Amanda Witbeck KY Peace & Justice Organization Youth Services Coalition Needs Assessment Report 1. Project background information We are building maps of potential collaborations for youth services. We are seeking to provide agencies that serve youth with a map of assets ranging from job training, underutilized space, tutoring, recreational activities, transportation, and counseling. Additionally, we will map the willingness of fore mentioned assets to contribute to the coalition for youth services. These maps are a response to the Lexington Youth Initiative Survey, administered by the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice (CKCPJ), which is a coalition of peacemaking groups and individuals, incorporated in 1984 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The survey asked high school and middle school students to rank their needs in relation to youth jobs, recreational activities, etc. 2. Goal and objectives We are interested in examining the lack of available youth services in the northeast side of downtown Lexington. We will be examining the locations of potential youth services assets in Council Districts 1, 2, and 6, which would encompass the majority of the north east side of downtown Lexington. Additionally, we will be conducting a willingness survey in these districts to determine their ability to provide support for the youth services coalition. An overlay of LexTran bus routes will be included in each map. 3. Data acquisition and preparation steps We were provided with the preliminary results of the Lexington Youth Initiative survey, which was organized by the location of the respondent by police sector, street name, council district, zip code, and the school where the respondent currently attends. The results were also ranked by the needs priority of the respondents in relation to council district. We need to acquire the Lextran bus route data layer, school district data layer, city council districts data layer, police beat/sector data layer, church locations data layer from LFUCG. We will need to geocode the locations of the NGOs, theatres, community agencies, university organizations, businesses that are willing to support the youth services coalition. To find out this information we need to conduct a willingness survey. This survey will include the following questions: 1. Do you have a community outreach program? Who is the chair? 2. Are you able to provide a meeting space? What kind of space/size? Available weekends, week nights, summers, daytime 3. Are you able to provide transportation? Bus/Vans/Cars Available times Page | 4 4. Do you have a volunteer program that would be willing to assist with events/training/transporting? 5. Could you provide bilingual support? 6. Could you provide job training/internships/apprenticeships/future employment opportunities? 7. Are there any other services you would be willing to provide? What type? What times? 4. List of maps and analyses Maps of assets in Council District 1,2, and 6 Willingness survey of assets Spatial analysis of Lexington Youth Initiative Survey responses to mapped assets and willingness of assets. Maps of basic demographic analysis of census data 5. Steps required Completed By: Find assets related to priority of youth services in selected Council Districts—A & Z Spring Break (3/18) Find overlays/ contact LFUCG--- Dr. W ASAP Police beat Lextran School districts Churches Create contact log which assigns specific assets to Amanda & Zach—A & Z Spring Break Conduct willingness survey of assets—A & Z Spring Break Clean up excel sheets—A & Z 3/22 Figure out how to use SSPS—A & Z Spring Break Map the survey response priorities per council district —A & Z 4/12 Make maps—A & Z 4/12 Do network mapping—A & Z 4/12 Page | 5 Kentucky Peace & Justice Council Progress Report Amanda Witbeck & Zachary Nicholas Tasks Completed: -Established connection with Community Partner -Decided on council districts to map -Determined what data is needed from organization and the LFUCG GIS department -Did some analysis of survey responses in SPSS -Acquired some Church data -Acquired some youth assets data from a list of agencies selected by United Way - Geocoded Church and Asset data -Created preliminary maps -Sent email to, and made contact with, Joseph David of the Metropolitan Planning Organization in order to attempt to acquire the LexTran Data Problems & Questions: -Acquisition of specific data -LexTran, Council Districts, willingness of assets -Unsure of when we will receive the LexTran data from Joseph David -Unsure if we can retrieve a .shp file of Fayette Co. Council Districts -Not yet certain on how to map the willingness of assets -Scale of map: unclear of focus area for maps (initially was focus on council districts 1,2, and 6, however, a majority of the assets we have started mapping lie outside these council districts) -Limited time frame -How to express location’s information in a more user-friendly way within ArcMap -Issues of ethics in mapping locations of youth Page | 6 -What census overlays will be useful to organization? -How do we show which areas are in most need with the most youth? -How do we overlay SPSS results in ArcMap? Summary of Mid-Project meeting: -Have had to post-pone due to lack of data and meaningful results -Plan to meet after our willingness survey phone bank Changes to Project Goals: -Will be doing less surveying than we initially intended to -May have to exclude business willingness survey due to lack of time -May not be able to include Hispanic resources as requested by Glenn Brown -Will not be able to include mapping with police beats -Will be mapping via Council Districts Preliminary Maps: Page | 7 Page | 8 Kentucky Peace & Justice Data Dictionary Amanda Witbeck & Zachary Nicholas Excel Worksheets: -Orig_Survey_Data.xlsx Acquired Feb 7 -Cleaned_up_Districts.xlsx Acquired Feb 7 (made school names uniform and cleaned up data) -Cleaned_up_Districts2.xlsx concurrently) Acquired Feb 7 (secondary file created so that we could work -Cleaned_up_DistrictsWithaddress.xlsx -Agency+RosterwithDistricts.xls districts to church sheet) -CounDisAnalysis.xlsx priorities/dist) Acquired Feb 7 (cleaned up with addresses) Acquired March 6 (cleaned and started adding council Acquired April 1 (excel formed from table Kerby sent us of Kerby Data : Folder Containing Data Received from Kerby Neill Agency.xls Acquired March 6 List of United Way’s selected you agencies Agency+Roster.xls Acquired March 6 List of Agencies and churches Copy of Police Beat.xlsx Acquired Feb 7 Survey responses organized by Police Beat Copy of Working LYI Data.xlsx Acquired Feb 7 Incomplete Council Table Rev.docx Council Table.docx Acquired Feb 7 table of top survey responses organized by Council District Acquired Feb 7 table of top survey responses organized by Council District Data Narrative Draft Rev.docx LYI Final Report.pdf March 6 Survey results and analysis March 6 Lexington Youth Initiative final report March 21 Exported to create an external image Maps: Church Folder: Church1.jpg Page | 9 Church1.mxd March 21 Churches.dbf March 21 Churches.prj March 21 Churches.shp March 21 Churches.shp.xml March 21 Created Address Locator-Arc Catalogue to Geocode Churches.shx ORGS Folder: ORGS.shp March 21 Created Address Locator-Arc Catalogue to Geocode MAP1ORGS.jpg March 21 Exported to create an external image MAP1ORGS.mxd March 21 Geocoding_Result.dbf March 21 Geocoding_Result.prj March 21 Geocoding_Result.shp March 21 Geocoding_Result.shp.xml March 21 Geocoding_Result.shx March 21 CHURCHORGDIST.jpg Council Districts: Council_Districts.mxd councildistricts.dbf councildistricts.lyr councildistricts.prj councildistricts.sbn Page | 10 councildistricts.sbx councildistricts.shp councildistricts.shp.xml councildistricts.shx councildistricts07.zip Density: Density.jpg Density.mxd Density.pdf Densitylabel2.jpg Densitylabel2.pdf Gender: HSGender.jpg HSGender.mxd HSGender.pdf MSGender.jpg MSGender.mxd MSGender.pdf Priority: Firstpri.mxd Firstpri.jpg Firstpri.pdf Secpri.mxd Secpri.jpg Secpri.pdf Page | 11 Thridpri.mxd Thirdpri.jpg Fourthpri.mxd Fourthpri.jpg Fourthpri.pdf Firfthpri.mxd Fifthpri.jpg Fifthpri.pdf Other maps: ChurchORG_07CD.jpg ChurchORG_07CD.pdf ChurchORG_07CD.mxd SPSS: Survey Data.sav Page | 12 Acquired Feb 21 Final Maps Maps created for the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice Page | 13 Page | 14 Page | 15 Page | 16 Page | 17 Page | 18 Page | 19 Page | 20 Page | 21 Page | 22 Page | 23 Page | 24 Page | 25 Page | 26 Conclusion By creating maps using the data we were given and collected throughout this project we were able to create a visual representation of the Lexington Youth initiative survey. These maps show areas of limited accessibility to youth related services, as well as a strong need for more transportation services. We encountered many limitations throughout working on this project. Acquiring basic shape file data from the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government was impossible until the very last week of our time frame. Recent LexTran shape files of bus routes were inaccessible due to time constraints, but we were given access to the 2010 bus routes. We were also given crime data from LFUCG during the last week of our time frame but were unable to use it due to time constraints and format issues. Through creating these visual and spatial representations, we hope to further this project and its pursuit. Hopefully our work will enable the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice to further develop youth outreach and community based programs. Page | 27