Customizing Data for Health and Human Services Planning

About the Program

Category: Human Services (Best in Category)

Year: 2018

The Medallion Program enhances capital improvement planning and targets service delivery in Health and Human Services within Fairfax County. For the first time, consistent, detailed, sub-county level data is available for Health and Human Services staff to analyze how environmental conditions impact service demands for specified communities. The Medallion Program transforms disparate data into actionable information. It also provides a common dataset to support collaboration and coordination with the Department of Planning and Zoning to foster improvements in the design phase and better define infrastructure needs based on demographic, economic, and other social characteristics. Central to the effort, is the Medallion Web Mapping Application that enables users to query and visualize demographic variables to specific Fairfax County geographies. Fairfax County staff can now quickly view the aggregated data geographically and answer questions such as: • Which areas of Fairfax County have a greater concentration of pre-Kindergarten students that may need additional early childhood education services? • Do the locations of existing senior centers align with where county citizens aged 65 and older live? As a result, the detailed data enables more targeted and granular decision-making to better use limited resources.