Kevin Mickey, Polis Center Director, Professional Development and Geospatial Technology Education, will co-instruct a virtual  Urban & Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)-sponsored workshop, Making Sense out of Social Indices,on July 25-26. It summarizes considerations on creating a social index and explores a variety of publicly-available social index tools. Participants will learn when and how these tools are best applied for improving the resilience of their community to disasters. Program development included researchers from Polis, the University of Wisconsin, Oakridge National Labs, the College of Charleston, and the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation.