Each of California’s local health departments (LHDs) serves a unique community, planning and delivering a targeted set of CalFresh Healthy Living programs to meet community needs. Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) developed the Data Storytelling Toolkit to empower LHDs to communicate their program and evaluation data with stakeholders in a meaningful way. You can even use this toolkit to create more than one story!
The Data Storytelling Toolkit includes:
- A Data Story Template that each LHD can customize to create a visually appealing data story to print or share digitally (Canva)
- A plain text copy of the Data Story Template, for planning purposes (Word)
- A sample data story for 'Hypothetical County,' made with fictional data (PDF)
- A set of Data Tables, hosted in your LHD's Evaluation OneDrive folder, summarizing your LHD’s program and evaluation data (Excel)
- A Data Storytelling Toolkit Instruction Guide (PDF)
Need Additional Guidance?
Questions can be directed to EvaluateSNAPEd@ucanr.edu. If your LHD needs more extensive help to create your data story, we are happy to arrange one-on-one technical assistance! Please submit our TA request form and a member of our team will follow up with you soon!
Share Your Story!
Did your team use the components of this toolkit to produce a report, slide deck, or other data product? We'd love to see it! Use the link below to submit your creation to our team. Unless you request otherwise, your contributions will be featured in our LHD data story repository, available to view below.