The Community Partnership for Children in Queen Anne County, Maryland, is a local government organization responsible for the planning, implementation, and monitoring of programs that support youth, families, and communities. Community Science assisted this partnership to develop their capacity to collect, analyze, and use the Sense of Community Index to monitor changes in the county residents’ sense of community across the county. We developed a sampling strategy, checked the psychometric properties of the index, and reported on the residents’ sense of community on the whole and by specific demographic characteristics. Results were geographically mapped to help facilitate the use of this information for the organization’s planning. In addition, Community Science developed a database to automate future data entry, analysis, and reporting of this annual survey. (2002)
