Who We Are
Empowering People through technology and data-driven community engagement.
It is clear that technology is literally impacting every aspect of our lives as citizens, employees, employers, parents, friends, our roles and responsibilities within our communities. Technologist, politicians, and business leaders have also placed great emphasis on the potential that technology and data can offer state, local, territorial, and tribal governments and their citizens. However, it is often unclear how and what these technologies can offer citizens in order to increase their quality of life, education, job opportunities, and general prosperity.
STN employs an effective community partnership strategy to promote business leaders, community members, government officials, and educators to decide and work together to capitalize on the power of our connected communities. Central to this work, STN develops and supports a network of public-private non-partisan, affiliates and advocates for the needed infrastructure to support community engagement. Organizations that partner with STN benefit from their strategic partnership by obtaining access to technical assistance and funding in support of their community engagement efforts. STN also provides research, training, resources, and communications expertise needed to analyze and utilize data to continuously refine service delivery, guide performance and improve outcomes building stronger communities and partnerships. Overall, STN builds and maintains strategic relationships with key local stakeholders, subject matter experts, and funders willing to use Adsystech’s innovative Self-Regulatory electronic platform to drive lasting change within historically marginalized communities.
20%
More than 1 out of every 5 youth in the bottom performing counties do not graduate from high school in four years. For American Indian/Alaskan Native, Black, and Hispanic youth, it is 1 out of 4. In 2016, the unemployment rate for adults in the bottom performing counties was 7.5 percent, more than twice that of adults in the top performing counties (3.2%). American Indian/Alaskan Native and Black adults experienced the highest unemployment rates (10.5% and 9.9%, respectively), while Whites and Asians experienced lower rates of unemployment (4.2% and 3.5%, respectively).*
*2018 County Health Rankings Key Findings Report. A collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
40%
About 40% of African-American families reported hardship in trying to meet at least one of their basic needs, such as paying for food, health care, housing or utilities. The impact of poverty and related conditions are known to have dire consequences on academic achievement, employment, nutrition and health outcomes, stable housing, exposure to crime and other environmental factors, all of which undermine one’s quality of life.
Impact on the Community
Strategic action to solve primary challenges
Data Driven
Many agencies and organizations have traditionally existed in silos focusing insularly on their specific impact area. Antiquated data infrastructure, limited funding, and leadership’s resistance to change – all potential contributors to a lack of capacity to share information with other providers to offer comprehensive, holistic services to meet the full needs of communities
Self-Regulatory Skills
Services being offered don't focus on building self-regulatory skills. These basic life skills are tied to numerous positive outcomes across one's lifespan – including children’s academic achievement and positive behavior in school, and adults’ success in the workplace, income, and savings, and general health and well-being.
Engage Communities
Finding meaningful ways to earn trust, being culturally and linguistically responsive, and fostering open communication and transparency – all key factors that must be considered and incorporated. Without effective community engagement strategies, agencies and organizations are operating on the margins without findings ways to support and improve the well-being of individuals they are designed to serve.
Data Analytics
Committed to expanding the meaningful use of data analytics to predict the behavior and performance of individuals within the communities. Social service organizations lack capacity to share information across silos and they also do not have access to advance data mining and analytic tools to make more data driven decisions.
Personal Development
Our online platform can track and analyze meaningful data, to inform decision making and to demonstrate the transformative impact in the communities that we engage. The result is a solution that will engage and empower communities, especially the underserved, to overcome established challenges that impact their ability to thrive.
Economic Development
Traditional approaches to community engagement are disparate, provide anecdotal success stories alone and often use frameworks that are not scalable. Unlike traditional social service approaches to engaging with communities, our solution offers a transformative framework and collaborative network of dedicated industry experts which enrich companies' interactions across geographic, cultural and economic barriers in order to engage diverse communities based on their needs.
Community & Social Circumstance
The need for Intervention
8.2%
Rise in low birth-weight in 2016 (a 2% increase from 2014). Birth-weight is a key measure of health and quality of life. In all 50 states, there is a higher percentage of Black low birth-weight babies than for other racial groups. These percentages exceed those for low birth-weight babies born in the typical bottom performing county in each state.*
1.5x
Rates among children and youth are at least 1.5 times higher than rates among adults aged 18 and older – and the rates are even higher for Black, American Indian/Alaskan Native, and Hispanic children and youth. Available data show that for the majority of U.S. counties, child poverty rates for American Indian/Alaskan Native, Black, or Hispanic children are higher than rates for White children, and these rates are often twice as high. This is an urgent problem because the fastest growing population is children and youth of color. A healthy beginning is essential to a healthy future for our children and our nation.**
*2018 County Health Rankings Key Findings Report. A collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. **2018 County Health Rankings Key Findings Report. A collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
In The Community
A National Crisis After 3PM
A national survey conducted by the Afterschool Alliance revealed that 20% of children are left unsupervised after…
Squeegee Kids: An eyesore or an inner-city youth crisis?
Squeegee kids say they’re supporting families, not committing a crime.
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