This map was created as part of the Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions initiative (HY/HR). One component of HY/HR was an analysis of a wide-range of secondary data that can lead to a better understanding of the current patterns of youth opportunity in the region and the implications of these patterns for the overall social, economic, and personal health of the region. The analysis had three central goals:

• To document social and spatial disparities, including a detailed analysis of race, gender, immigration status, and geographic dimensions of those disparities;
• To identify factors associated with disparities, recognizing the multi-dimensional and inter-connected processes that shape outcomes for youth across our four broad areas of analysis;
• To analyze implications of disparities for the overall health of the region, including the social, economic, and personal health costs of inequality as well as the potential gains for the overall health of the region when those disparities are successfully addressed.