Redlining-

redlining, illegal discriminatory practice in which a mortgage lender denies loans or an insurance provider restricts services to certain areas of a community, often because of the racial characteristics of the applicant’s neighborhood.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/redlining

Raising the H.E.A.T.

Tackling Health Inequities Through Resident Leadership

The H.E.A.T. Report

Connecting Health Inequities with Redlining

Environmental factors have a bigger impact on health than we could possibly imagine.

Over three years of intensive study, we uncovered massive opportunities in creating/sustaining health equity among a large section of our community. Historical property value discrimination (through redlining in the 1930’s) has snowballed over time into our neighborhoods suffering from inadequate housing, lack of access to adequate health care, and environmental health injustices.

Together, we can change that.

By identifying the factors that have created these problems, we can target the opportunity areas and begin repairing the damage. Wyandotte County is a proud community. Working together, we can help restore our homes, create awareness of health care solutions, and begin to work toward sustained improvement in our lives.

REDLINED: THE H.E.A.T. Report COMIC BOOK Pt. 1 & 2

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Redlined pt. 1

Redlined pt. 2

Heat Mapping Update:

Wyandotte county has one of the highest mortality rates of all Kansas counties. The HEAT (Health Equity Action Transformation Project) has been working to contextualize the low health assessments of Wyandotte county observing the relationships of various social determinants of health in hopes of providing opportunities for action. The project aims to provide additional context to the relationship between health and socio-economic factors.

Learn more about key findings through these interactive maps

Interactive Story Maps

These ‘Legacy’ maps are from the original project and H.E.A.T. Report released in 2016 alongside our funding partners and The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. The following maps look at opportunity areas in Wyandotte County and show, on a neighborhood level, areas of opportunity and where those areas overlap.

In 2020 the Community Health Council of Wyandotte County partnered with UMKC Center for Economic Information to provide updated maps. The Vera Institute of Justice created an additional map comparing cases of Covid-19 and Criminal Cases referred by the County District attorney’s office. These can be found at https://wearewyandotte.com/story-maps/2020-h-e-a-t-project-mapping-update/