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From our Partners
Improving health, well-being, and resiliency of communities
All organizations desire to make a greater impact on the people and communities they serve. Being data-informed makes that possible. It leads to greater awareness, improved planning, targeted resource allocation and a better case for funding. Sharing data for the greater good is why the Indiana Data Partnership (IDP) exists, and as one of its founding partners, The Polis Center at IUPUI has a vested interest in ensuring its success.
From our Partners
Why is the IU Public Policy Institute participating in the Indiana Data Partnership?
The mission of the Indiana University Public Policy Institute (PPI) is to produce unbiased, high-quality research, analyses and policy guidance to promote positive change and improve the quality of life in communities across Indiana and the nation.
We measure success by our ability to produce and transmit knowledge needed to make informed decisions, with no agenda other than helping leaders, citizens, businesses, and organizations solve problems, seize opportunities and effect positive change.
Having served the public interest for over 26 years, PPI recognizes...
IDP Launch
Indiana Data Partnership Launch Powers Multi-Sector Collaboration
The Indiana Data Partnership (IDP) is launching to empower collaboration among government, non-profit and private sector entities to drive positive change in key challenges impacting Hoosiers. Current focus areas include combatting the opioid epidemic and improving education and workforce development. The partnership serves these vital community needs by developing an integrated, scalable and collaborative decision-driving framework designed to increase the availability and utility of existing data among participating partners...
Education/Workforce
The Next Level: Aligning Workforce and Education Data
Throughout Indiana, people are working long and hard to ensure that students and workers get the knowledge and skills they need to join the workforce and to move their careers to the Next Level.
The Governor’s Workforce Cabinet, created in the 2018 legislative session, is committed to bringing solutions to aligning our education and workforce training systems. The Indiana Data Partnership (IDP) is working to map two things about our workforce education ecosystem: the existing and its potential...
Opioid Epidemic
Mapping the Solution: Understanding the Network of Service Providers Addressing the Opioid Crisis
Because the opioid epidemic has grown so rapidly, there has not previously existed any data describing the full landscape of service provision around this issue. Through the Indiana Data Partnership (IDP), we have compiled more information about the opioid service provider landscape in Marion County than has ever been available. This information is important for policy makers, decision makers and service providers...
Data Education
Improving Service Collaboration Through Network Analysis and Data Sharing
Solving today’s most difficult challenges facing governments at all levels and society requires new, innovative approaches. This is particularly true when organizations providing important public services in the same geographic are established and financially supported by the public, private and non-profit sectors, as well as between various levels of government. Another example of a pressing need for greater coordination between government and the private and nonprofit sectors is preparing our Hoosier workforce with the skills demanded by today’s advanced manufacturing economy...