Mayor’s Village Initiative Area

The Mayor’s Village Initiative was developed as a result of the high violent crime rates almost exclusive to young African American men in the North End of the City of West Palm Beach, specifically in the neighborhoods of the Historic Northwest, Coleman Park and Pleasant City. Comprised of City of West palm Beach staff, community leaders, community members and local organizations, the Mayor’s Village Initiative is a collaborative, multidisciplinary strategy to prevent and reduce youth violence and improve outcomes for African American boys and young men in the three target neighborhoods. The Mayor’s Village Initiative is working to ensure a West Palm Beach where all African American males are safe, empowered and secure. The strategy focuses on give key pillars:

1. Crime Prevention & Intervention
2. Reentry & The Criminal Justice System
3. Employment & Training
4. Education
5. Health

The Mayor’s Village Initiative (MVI) serves North Tamarind, Pleasant City, and Progressive Northwest in West Palm Beach, FL. The MVI target area consists of three census tracts (areas), which are part of West Palm Beach’s 27 tracts. Figures show information for the MVI target area (shown in pink below) and the rest of West Palm Beach (shown in yellow below). The following data is intended to set the context of the MVI area within West Palm Beach. This is not an analysis of West Palm Beach and the tracts may extend beyond the city boundaries.

Health Equity

The following maps show information about underlying health conditions and health insurance coverage. The more prevalent the health condition is among the population, the darker the purple. The more prevalent the lack of health insurance is among the population, the darker the purple.

Economic Mobility

The following maps show incarceration rates for all people who grew up in the area and the household income of people who grew up in the area with low-income parents. The incarceration rate is the percent of children who grew up in the area who were in jail on April 1, 2010. A high incarceration rate (shown in dark blue/ purple) indicates low economic mobility, as formerly incarcerated people experience less upward economic mobility than people who were never incarcerated. A low household income (shown in light yellow/ green) indicates low economic mobility, as children’s incomes did not increase compared to their low-income parents.

Child Opportunity

Life expectancy at birth is shown in the first table below. Additionally, the Children’s Opportunity Index (COI) gives quintile levels and 1-100 scores for overall child opportunity and areas like education, health and environment, and social-economic. The quintiles ae measured as very low (lowest 20%), low (20-40%), moderate (40-60%), high (60-80%), and very high (top 80-100%). This information was recorded in 2010 and 2015. The West Palm Beach average metric was calculated as the average of all of the tracts in West Palm Beach except for the target area. This was done so one can compare the target area to the rest of West Palm Beach.

City	Life Expectancy
North Tamarind	67.9
Pleasant City	70
Progressive Northwest	72.1
West Palm Beach Average	79.2

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References

National Center for Health Statistics. U.S. Small-Area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP): Life Expectancy Estimates File for {Jurisdiction}, 2010-2015]. National Center for Health Statistics. 2018. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/usaleep/usaleep.html.

Noelke, C., McArdle, N., Baek, M., Huntington, N., Huber, R., Hardy, E., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2020).
Child Opportunity Index 2.0 Technical Documentation. Retrieved from diversitydatakids.org/researchlibrary/research-brief/how-we-built-it..

The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2010. Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic
Mobility. Washington, DC: The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Source: www.policymap.com

Raj Chetty & John N. Friedman & Nathaniel Hendren & Maggie R. Jones & Sonya R. Porter, 2018. “The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility,” Working Papers 18-42, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.