Community Data & Reports
Below is a list of helpful links and information on a variety of community services topics such as child wellness, mental health, and community health assessments.
Community Data
Boone Indicators Dashboard
The Boone Indicators Dashboard (BID) is a collaboration effort to collect the most reliable data sources regarding populations and issues of Boone County residents to more effectively inform and align community planning, resource investment, and performance management and monitoring. The Boone Indicators Dashboard presents a variety of health, education, social, economic, and housing data for issues relevant to Boone County, Missouri.
Boone County Health Rankings
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps is a program of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute providing data, evidence, guidance, and examples to build awareness of the multiple factors that influence health and support leaders in growing community power to improve health equity. The Rankings are unique in their ability to measure the health of nearly every county in all 50 states, and are complemented tools and resources designed to accelerate community learning and action.
Reports from Boone County Community Services Department
Mobility Metric Data for Boone County
Data posters displaying mobility metric data for Boone County were created for a data walk that helped set priorities for the Boone County Upward Mobility Action Plan. Data was presented based on the Mobility Metrics and included drivers of upward mobility in the categories of Strong and Healthy Families, Opportunities to Learn and Earn, and Supportive Communities.
Prepared By: Boone County Community Services Department and Cradle to Career Alliance
Published: August 2021
Voices for Collective Impact: Honoring Youth Perspectives
The Boone County Children's Services Board (BCCSB) engaged in research aimed at gaining understanding from youth about their perceptions of strengths, needs, and violence within the community. The BCCSB held six focus group sessions across Boone County with youth ages 12-18 where they shared their experiences with educational systems, mental illness, identity-based experiences, community level issues, and their ideas for solutions to some identified problems and concerns within the community. Results from the focus groups, including analysis and recommendations, are contained in this report.
Prepared By: Boone County Community Services Department
Date Published: October 2020
Boone County Children's Services Fund: Review and Assessment Report
The Boone County Children's Services Board contracted the University of Missouri Institute of Public Policy to assess progress toward meeting the needs identified in the Community Input Report completed in July 2014.
Prepared By: MU Institute of Public Policy
Date Published: May 1, 2019
2018 Poverty Report
This report is intended to convey the multidimensional nature of poverty, with the goal of stimulating conversation and action to end poverty and allow our community, and all its members, to reach their full potential.
Published By: Boone County Community Services Department and Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services
Community Input Report
The Boone County Children's Services Board contracted with the University of Missouri Institute of Public Policy to gather data necessary to better understand children's services in Boone County and strengthen the board's ability to be responsive to community needs in decision making.
Prepared By: MU Institute of Public Policy
Date Published: July 14, 2014
Community Reports
2022 Community Health Needs Assessment Report
Boone Hospital Center conducts a community health needs assessment and creates an implementation plan every three years, as required of all nonprofit hospitals by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Published By: Boone Hospital Center
2018 Columbia/Boone County Community Health Assessment
Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services undergoes the completion of a comprehensive community health assessment (CHA). The findings of the CHA are then used to inform the development of a community health improvement plan.
Published By: Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services