Using data to improve human services programs is becoming commonplace. Agency administrators, researchers, and policymakers increasingly turn to applied data analytics to evaluate programs or inform evidence-based policy. The applications of the data may vary but the goal is the same: to improve the lives of the families served. More recently, service agencies have been pursuing a broader goal: to move from data to knowledge to action not just once, but routinely, creating a reinforcing cycle of evidence-building and program improvement.
Through funding from the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), Chapin Hall and MDRC created a toolkit to help agencies build the culture and infrastructure needed to apply data analysis routinely, effectively, and accurately- referred to in this webinar as “sustainable data use.” This webinar discusses some of the key strategies and tools included in the Toolkit that can serve as a helpful resource for building sustainable data use in human service agencies.
www.chapinhall.org/project/promoting-sustainable-data-use-in-state-programs/