Stronger Together: Data Collaboratives and Partnerships

This session will provide a broad understanding of the possibilities for partnerships around data. Kathy Pettit, co-director of NNIP, will first describe one model of local data capacity - the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership. (NNIP), and give short examples of how NNIP partners work with their communities to address health disparities locally.

The NNIP model is more long-term for those in cities without partners yet, so Todd Clausen will focus most of the session will focus on immediate steps participants can take to forge data partnerships.

• Identify the tasks that data may be able to help with, such as program planning, targeting, or evaluation
• Understand the types of data available , administrative data ,program data, household or property survey data
• Review potential data partners and strategies for approaching them (academic, nonprofit, private)
• Learn from real-world examples from Milwaukee on partnerships to address child lead poisoning and others

In the final segment, we will do a collective problem-solving exercise where we ask select participants to describe their own organization’s needs and then walk through the elements above to develop a plan for the participant to consider for they return home (we may do one or two groups depending on the size of the session).