Data-Driven Addiction, Prevention, and Recovery (DDAPR) Project

About the DDAPR Project

The Data-Driven Addiction, Prevention, and Recovery (DDAPR) Project is a result of an initiative that started in 2017 with the formation of the Drug Prevention, Treatment and Enforcement Office and a Drug Data Working Group comprised of state partners.

DDAPR continues as a multi-agency collaboration between the Governor’s Drug Prevention, Treatment, and Enforcement Office, the Indiana Department of Health, the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, the Indiana Department of Professional Licensing, the Indiana Department of Correction, the Indiana Department of Family and Social Services including the Division of Mental Health and Addiction, the Department of Child Services, and the Indiana State Police, led by the Indiana Management Performance Hub. The project is aimed at exploring, analyzing, and visualizing key use cases and data questions as it pertains to substance use and abuse with the goals of:

• Deepening the foundational understanding of substance use and abuse through Indiana to guide future work toward actions that will create the most impact.
• Empowering decision makers to act confidently with data-supported projections.
• Enabling the state to pivot and adjust quickly by identifying and measuring leading indicators of success, and monitoring progress in an ongoing fashion.

The project is currently funded by the Indiana Family and Social Services Association through the Federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).