CUES Regional Initiatives

South Florida Regional Resource Center
The South Florida Regional Resource Center is an innovative institutional approach to increasing the abilities of South Florida’s residents and neighborhoods to influence and shape public policy issues at a regional level.

Research South Florida
Research South Florida is one of CUES’s newest regional initiatives. It is a one-stop center for finding research expertise on important public policy issues in South Florida.

Regional Indicators Project
In 2004, CUES published their second regional indicators report entitled Regional Shift: South Florida in Transition, an update to the 2001 report Imaging the Region: South Florida via Indicators an Public Opinions. This publication continues the dialogue about the changes, challenges and opportunities facing South Florida. Another iteration, to be published in late 2005, will focus on those indicators most closely linked to sustainability and economic prosperity.

Florida Public Officials Design Institute at Abacoa
There is no other program in Florida that is dedicated to improving Florida’s towns and cities by offering hands-on design training for locally elected officials that gives them the problem-specific tools they say they need. The Design Institute assists officials in bringing out the latent potential that exists and gives them the knowledge they need to exert leadership in shaping their communities.

Development Without Displacement
This project grew out of the Eastward Ho! Initiative. Eastward Ho! encourages development and revitalization in the traditionally urban coastal ridge running north and south through Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, and St. Lucie.