Data to Action. What does it mean? How do we do it?
Abstract
Georgia Department of Public Health Injury Prevention Program (IPP) celebrates Public Health by leveraging resources, addressing systems change, and prioritizing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) monitoring and prevention. Georgia’s Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: Data to Action (PACE: D2A) grant utilizes existing child well-being infrastructure and IPP’s dynamic network of partnerships to provide holistic ACEs data to Georgia’s public health practitioners to implement evidence-based prevention strategies. The data to action approach is an iterative process that focuses on continuously analyzing data to guide the implementation of ongoing projects and programs. PACE: D2A draws from 12 data sources, both public and private, to produce data products geared towards those participating in Georgia’s Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Plan (CANPP). The analysis of PACE: D2A data is guided by the needs and evidence-based strategies chosen by CANPP implementers. PACE: D2A can serve as a case study for the data to action approach. This approach allows for a quicker response to barriers that programs find around data and emphasizes data literacy making data easily digestible to program stakeholders. While using the data to action approach, programs may encounter barriers such as access to timely data, data that allows granular geographic analysis, struggles with communicating data effectively, and maintaining sustainable partnerships. Facilitators of the data to action approach include building upon existing statewide coalitions, inclusion of diverse partners, leveraging existing programs to maximize resources, building trust between data owners and project implementers, and uplifting existing prevention efforts rather than focusing on new ones. The successful use of the data to action approach can help programs create long-lasting change within their communities as evidenced by PACE: D2A. By adapting this unique approach for program implementation public health practitioners can become flexible and nimble in their response to public health crises.
Keywords
data, programming implementation, ACEs, partnerships, community participation
Data to Action. What does it mean? How do we do it?
Georgia Department of Public Health Injury Prevention Program (IPP) celebrates Public Health by leveraging resources, addressing systems change, and prioritizing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) monitoring and prevention. Georgia’s Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: Data to Action (PACE: D2A) grant utilizes existing child well-being infrastructure and IPP’s dynamic network of partnerships to provide holistic ACEs data to Georgia’s public health practitioners to implement evidence-based prevention strategies. The data to action approach is an iterative process that focuses on continuously analyzing data to guide the implementation of ongoing projects and programs. PACE: D2A draws from 12 data sources, both public and private, to produce data products geared towards those participating in Georgia’s Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Plan (CANPP). The analysis of PACE: D2A data is guided by the needs and evidence-based strategies chosen by CANPP implementers. PACE: D2A can serve as a case study for the data to action approach. This approach allows for a quicker response to barriers that programs find around data and emphasizes data literacy making data easily digestible to program stakeholders. While using the data to action approach, programs may encounter barriers such as access to timely data, data that allows granular geographic analysis, struggles with communicating data effectively, and maintaining sustainable partnerships. Facilitators of the data to action approach include building upon existing statewide coalitions, inclusion of diverse partners, leveraging existing programs to maximize resources, building trust between data owners and project implementers, and uplifting existing prevention efforts rather than focusing on new ones. The successful use of the data to action approach can help programs create long-lasting change within their communities as evidenced by PACE: D2A. By adapting this unique approach for program implementation public health practitioners can become flexible and nimble in their response to public health crises.
