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Compass As a Resource

How will Compass be used?

There are numerous ways Compass data can be applied, many unforeseen. The steering committee's greatest hope is that Compass will be used as a springboard to launch whatever ideas people have to improve our community. With that said, possible uses of Compass include:

Compass is a community status report that is continually updated and expanded. It is free to anyone, but is maintained by the Larimer County Division of Health and Human Services and United Way of Larimer County.

Linking to Compass

You are encouraged to add a link to Compass on your website. You may want to add one of the following brief descriptions or tag lines so that users on your site have some idea what Compass is.

Compass presents statistics describing the quality of life in Larimer County, CO.

Or

Compass, A living report on the well-being of our community

Or

Compass, Pointing the way to a better Larimer County

What if You Needed to Know? [pdf], Press Packet

How to Reference Compass

People are encouraged to use the information provided in Compass. When this information is used in publications or proposals, we would appreciate an acknowledgement.

A simple acknowledgement could read:

This information was provided by Compass of Larimer County, a service of Larimer County Department of Health & Human Services and United Way of Larimer County. www.larimer.org/compass

If this is presented electronically, you may want to make the words Compass of Larimer County a link to the site and avoid printing the web address. If it is in print, please do print the web address.

Because Compass is intended for grant writers and researchers among others, it is likely that many users will need to reference the information gained from Compass in endnotes or a bibliography.

We recommend using American Psychological Association style for electronic references. The specific format you use will depend on the part of Compass you are referencing. Measure pages have dates, while the overall site does not. The reports listed in the Executive Summary have a particular author, while the measure pages do not. Larimer County hosts the Compass website and staff from Larimer County Division of Health & Human Services performs day-to-day management of the site (including writing the pages). This information may be helpful to you in citing Compass appropriately.