Tri-ED unveils new Northern Kentucky Atlas, shines light on data as way to track progress

Northern Kentucky Tri-ED hosted its 2022 Annual Discussion board lately, centered across the theme of “Constructing a Information-Knowledgeable Path to Prosperity,” at Turfway Park.

Attendees on the discussion board gathered to debate financial growth and what they need the Northern Kentucky area to appear to be sooner or later.

Tri-ED CEO Lee Crume mentioned the group wants to ensure it’s forming the fitting plans now so Northern Kentucky continues to be a wholesome, affluent, and vibrant group sooner or later.

“That is actually about beginning a group dialog of the place we need to go and who we need to be as a group,” mentioned Crume.

Information was the first focus of the discussion board, which included the launch of the brand new Northern Kentucky Atlas, a community-accessible information dashboard for Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties.

It’s hoped that this information will likely be utilized in group conversations to tell decision-making and transfer Northern Kentucky towards elevated prosperity.

Keynote Speaker Dr. Jerry Parrish, Chief Economist and Director of State and Native Coverage Evaluation on the Florida Institute of Authorities at Florida State College, spoke about his real-world expertise in utilizing information to enact vital modifications in communities.

Parrish was tasked with fixing the Florida Scorecard, a web-based software that identifies and tracks metrics vital to Florida’s economic system. He made positive that they had the fitting information, it was stored updated, and was visually interesting for customers.

Parrish mentioned Florida information confirmed an especially excessive correlation between low third-grade studying scores and excessive poverty charges. In Florida, they had been capable of acquire the help of group and enterprise leaders to start to fight this concern, together with via mentorship applications created by non-public companies the place workers would learn to younger youngsters.

Tri-ED Analysis Director David McAleese additionally touched on Northern Kentucky third-grade studying assessments in the course of the launch of the Atlas. About one in 5 Northern Kentucky third graders are studying at a “novice” (lowest) degree. Information will help communities carry consideration to the place their challenges lie to allow them to develop or refine approaches to deal with them.

“Inspecting the information will assist shine a light-weight on areas of concern and assist us join the dots round contributing elements, finally enabling us to set benchmarks to trace progress over time,” mentioned McAleese.

Training is only one of eight broad classes that may be explored via the Atlas. The opposite seven embody demographics, financial metrics, housing, high quality of life, workforce, well being, and infrastructure.

The dashboard may be discovered at atlas.northernkentuckyusa.com and is an initiative undertaken by Tri-ED together with its companion Metopio.