An interactive data initiative assembling primary-source indicators on economic hardship, early childhood, housing stability, and the justice system across Whatcom County. Built from public records and published research. Intended for policymakers, researchers, journalists, and community members who want to examine the underlying data themselves.
Chuckanut Health Foundation works for better outcomes across our community. The people who end up incarcerated are, in the vast majority of cases, people whose lives have been shaped by poverty, mental health challenges, substance use, childhood trauma, and structural lack of opportunity. That complexity calls us to this work, because if we want a truly healthy community, we cannot address only the downstream symptoms.
We also know this: when a community has a shared, honest understanding of where things actually stand, it asks smarter questions. And communities move in the direction of the questions they ask.
We want those questions to be hopeful, optimistic, compassionate, kind, and accountable to each other and to the fabric of the community we share.