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Resident Feedback Fuels the Framework: Unpacking the 2025 Community Indicators Project Update
At Strategic Spartanburg, we believe that data belongs to the people. That’s why we’ve spent this summer traveling across Spartanburg County, listening to residents during a series of Data Dialogue events to help shape the future of your Community Indicators Project. We aren’t just updating numbers. We’re updating how we understand success. And we’re doing it together—with you.
Urgency and Compassion: Treating Homelessness Like the Crisis It Is
Homelessness is not an accident—it’s the direct result of policy decisions, economic inequality, and social systems that have fallen short over decades, especially through the steady decline in affordable housing investment. At A Place to Call Home, we envision a Spartanburg County where homelessness is recognized as a solvable problem, and where everyone has a safe, secure place to call home.
From Data to Action: Advancing Youth Mental Health Practice in Spartanburg
Strategic Spartanburg’s The State of Youth Mental and Behavioral Health report describes urgent disparities in youth mental health outcomes. Behavioral health experts Tom Barnet, Colin Bauer, Polly Edwards Pagett, and Dr. Lori Thornton discuss tangible strategies for advancing youth mental and behavioral health outcomes.
The Power of a Diverse Board of Directors: Unleashing Potential for Success
The power of diversity on a company's board of directors cannot be overstated. Through better decision-making, enhanced corporate governance, improved financial performance, and stronger stakeholder relations, diverse boards unlock the potential for sustained success and competitiveness.
The Power of Play
The Children’s Museum of the Upstate-Spartanburg allows children to play, grow their skills, and prepare for school, which in turn supports our community’s future leaders, thinkers, creators, and change-makers. Through play, we are reinforcing our community’s early childhood development efforts and helping prepare students for success in kindergarten and beyond.
Maternal Mortality
Our community health workers in the AccessHealth program, and those strategically located in areas where the need was the greatest have now become change agents in reducing racial health disparities. This is equivalent to the individualized care and support that community doulas provide to women as they go through their pregnancy, labor, birth, and the most critical time frame for both mom and baby: postpartum.