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Marie Lynn Miranda, PhD¹, Jeffrey Davis, BS¹, M. Alicia Overstreet¹, and Robin Tutor². (1) Children's Environmental Health Initiative, Duke University, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708-0328, 919-613-8708, davisja@duke.edu, (2) East Coast Migrant Head Start Project, 4901 Glenwood Ave., Suite 300, Raleigh, NC 27612

The Children's Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI) is collaborating with the East Coast Migrant Head Start Project (ECMSHP) to develop a spatial database that aims to enhance ECMHSP's delivery of child care services to migrant children in eastern North Carolina. Through field work and observations with in-house data analysis and mapping, CEHI employed GIS mapping tools to create a geospatial database of information relevant to the work of ECMHSP with critical input from ECHMSP during the process.

Layers that CEHI has incorporated into a GIS include: ECMHSP service areas, ECMHSP center locations, ECMHSP bus routes, health care and service provider locations, indicators for important local growers, and GPS locations of known work camps or fields. Layers that have been identified to pursue include: child and family indicators, additional work camp coordinates and housing locations for migrant workers, and updated satellite imagery for service areas.

Combining these layers provides ECMHSP personnel with a tool to increase access to potentially unrealized populations of migrant children, evaluate service area decisions, identify new collaborative partners, and assess strategic planning needs. ECMHSP will be piloting the use of this spatial database as a planning tool for the peak harvesting season in eastern North Carolina in 2006.

Learning Objectives:

• 1.Using GIS to organize a variety of spatial data layers and visualize relationships between those layers;
• 2.Implementing GIS as an important tool for strategic planning; and
• 3.Employing innovative technologies to bridge issues in health care, social work, and migrant labor.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

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