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Chapin Hall Announces RFP: Using Linked Data to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking

Administrative Data, AISP Network, Evidence-based Policy, IDS, IDS Uses, Social Policy Innovation / Tian McPherson

Government policymakers and program managers at the Federal, State, and local levels are under increasing pressure to ensure that their programs are achieving better results at lower cost. In many programs serving vulnerable populations, policymakers and managers lack access to information about what outcomes programs are achieving and to evaluations that can inform policy decisions […]

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Launching the Data-Driven Justice Initiative: Disrupting the Cycle of Incarceration

Administrative Data, Evidence-based services, Federal Regulations, Government Agencies, IDS Uses, News, Social Policy Innovation / Tian McPherson

Every year, more than 11 million people move through America’s 3,100 local jails, many on low-level, non-violent misdemeanors, costing local governments approximately $22 billion a year.In local jails, 64 percent of people suffer from mental illness, 68 percent have a substance abuse disorder, and 44 percent suffer from chronic health problems.Communities across the country have

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CIDI’s Young Men’s Initiative (YMI) Disparity Report

Administrative Data, AISP Network, Government Agencies, IDS, IDS Uses, Research, Resources / Tian McPherson

“The Center for Innovation through Data Intelligence (CIDI), a research and policy center for the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, originally created this Disparity Report for the Young Men’s Initiative (YMI), a city-wide program designed specifically to enhance the wellbeing of young men of color. Since that time, we have realized that this

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The History of Allegheny County’s IDS and its Potential to Improve the Foster Care System

Administrative Data, AISP Network, Evidence-based services, IDS, IDS Uses, Research / Tian McPherson

Humming away in a brick building near the banks of Pittsburgh’s Monongahela River, two servers filled with personal data hold the potential to improve the lives of the state’s most vulnerable children. Harnessing what’s on these servers would represent an ambitious use of big data, one that could possibly safeguard thousands of kids from abuse

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Dennis Culhane and John Fantuzzo Awarded $1.9M for AISP and IDS Research

Administrative Data, AISP Network, News, Research, Resourceful Partners & Organizations / Tian McPherson

Two grants, totaling nearly $2 million, have been awarded to University of Pennsylvania professors Dennis Culhane and John Fantuzzo, enabling the continued development and expanded use of Integrated Data Systems, or IDS, for evidence-based policymaking through the Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, or AISP, initiative. IDS link existing administrative data across multiple agencies and community

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How Allegheny County’s Data Warehouse is improving human services through integrated data: An interview with Erin Dalton by GovInnovator

Administrative Data, AISP Network, IDS, IDS Uses / Tian McPherson

Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, is recognized as a leader in using data to improve the results of its human services programs. In particular, the county’s Department of Human Services (DHS) created its Data Warehouse in 1999. The initiative stated by consolidating its own internal human services data relating to topics such as behavioral health, child

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The promise of integrated data systems for social policy reform: A Q&A with Dennis Culhane and John Fantuzzo

Administrative Data, AISP Network, Best Practices, IDS, News, Resourceful Partners & Organizations / Tian McPherson

Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP) is an initiative funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, with the purpose of improving the quality of education, and health and human service agencies’ policies and practices through the use of integrated data systems. AISP aims to build a nationwide professional network of data expertise

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Schools, Government Agencies Move to Share Student Data

Administrative Data, Federal Privacy and Data Security Regulations, Government Agencies, IDS, Social Impact, Social Policy Innovation / Tian McPherson

The struggle to protect students’ privacy while making use of the data collected on them in school has for years been focused on the role of outside companies. But while that debate has raged in Congress and statehouses across the country, K-12 school systems in more than a dozen cities and counties have quietly begun

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Individuals Involved in the Allegheny County Homelessness System

Administrative Data, AISP Network, IDS Uses / Tian McPherson

This report describes individuals who experienced a housing crisis in Allegheny County from 2009 through 2013, with a particular focus on the 2009 entry cohort. In 2014, the Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) conducted a review of its homelessness services system as a first step in planning for and promoting comprehensive strategies for

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Families Involved in the Allegheny County Homelessness System

Administrative Data, AISP Network, IDS, Research / Tian McPherson

This report describes Allegheny County families who experienced a housing crisis from 2009 through 2013, with a particular focus on the 2009 entry cohort. In 2014, the Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) conducted a review of its homelessness services system as a first step in planning for and promoting effective strategies for reducing

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Childhood adversity and behavioral health outcomes for youth: An investigation using state administrative data

Administrative Data, AISP Network, IDS Uses, Research, Social Impact / Tian McPherson

This study aimed to measure the relative contribution of adverse experiences to adolescent behavioral health problems using administrative data. Specifically, we sought to understand the predictive value of adverse experiences on the presence of mental health and substance abuse problems for youth receiving publicly funded social and health services. Medicaid claims and other service records

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New Program Aims to Help Reduce Recidivism in Allegheny County

AISP Network, Evidence-based services, IDS, IDS Uses, Social Impact / Tian McPherson

A Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency grant will fund a new program in Allegheny County aimed at providing affordable housing, employment services and other support for a group of men and women most at risk of returning to jail. The Allegheny County Mental Health and Justice Housing program, an effort of the Allegheny County

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CIDI: Young Adult Outcomes of Foster Care, Justice, and Dually Involved Youth in New York City

Administrative Data, AISP Network, IDS Uses / Tian McPherson

The Center for Innovation through Data Intelligence (CIDI) in New York City’s Office of the Mayor, an AISP Network member, released a new report on NYC’s young adult population who interact with both the foster care system and the justice system. The current study aims to replicate the study conducted by Culhane et al. (2011)

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Allegheny County’s Research on Integrated Administrative Data That Improves Foster Care Outcomes is Highlighted in GovTech Article

Administrative Data, AISP Network, Evidence-based Policy, IDS, Resourceful Partners & Organizations / Tian McPherson

“Sharing Data Key to Improving Foster Care Outcomes” “An average of 32 percent of foster students change schools in a given year, making data sharing imperative to improving their educational success.” States that share data among child welfare and education agencies have a better chance of lessening some of the barriers foster care students face

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