Mission To enable communities through GIS mapping to visualize the health of their neighborhoods, identify assets and needs, and unearth opportunities for collaborative change. Purpose Improve Operations Inform Policy Encourage Research Mobilize the Community Our Process GIS (Geographic Information System) and related spatial analysis methods have become instrumental in describing and understanding changes in a community‘s landscape, including the delivery and utilization of health care services. As visual images, maps can overcome language barriers and offer a powerful communication tool. The methods used by Children‘s Optimal Health (COH) have taken this tool to a new and exciting level of specificity that brings value to our community. COH‘s methodology is a unique and proven concept enhancing the ability of those serving children to utilize previously unavailable data to more effectively target ever decreasing resources for an ever growing population in Central Texas.