[Kathleen Szegda, PHIWWM speaking) I'm Kathleen Szegda I'm with the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts and we're going to share about the data and action support that's available at a regional level or CHEI.
[Kathleen Szegda speaking] So for our part of the webinar we're going to speak to who we are as regional data and action providers, an overview of the types of support we're able to offer, and then also give some information about how to contact us.
[Kathleen Szegda speaking] So again I'm with the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts and we are providing data and action support for Western Massachusetts and then in addition we're working with the Coalition for a Healthy Greater Worcester to provide support for central Massachusetts, and then the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, MAPC, is providing support for eastern Massachusetts.
[Kathleen Szegda speaking] So as I mentioned, I'm again, at the Public Health Institute of Western Mass. I'm the senior Director of Research and Evaluation and my teammate who is not here today is Victoria Hill and so we'll be working with western Massachusetts people and then also central Massachusetts people as well, in collaboration with Casey Burns from the Coalition of a Healthy Greater Worcester and then also one of our teammates who is here today as well as Leila Ramachandran and then I will turn it over for folks from MAPC to introduce themselves.
[Barry Keppard, MAPC speaking] Thanks, go ahead Tanaya
[Tanaya Tonpay, MAPC speaking] Thanks Barry. Hi everyone, great seeing you all here. My name is Tanaya Tonpay and I work at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council as the public health planner and like Kathleen mentioned we be the data and action support providers for eastern Massachusetts and my colleague Claire is not in the webinar today but she will also be working closely with us, and providing support.
(Barry Keppard speaking] Thanks Tonaya and just to introduce myself again I’m Barry Keppard. I'm the director of the public health department at MAPC and get the work alongside Tonaya and Claire for this wonderful work too. Back to you Kathleen
[Kathleen Szegda speaking] Great thank you. Okay so now we have a poll and so there should be a link that's being dropped in the chat [QR Code on screen] or you could go to mente.com and put in the code that you see at the top (89427764) and it'll prompt you to type in what do you think of when you hear the phrase ‘data to action’. We'd love to hear more from you all about what it means for you when we think about data to action because the CHEI data is a wonderful data source and really the hope is figuring out how it can be used to drive action. Great so seeing [words on screen] practical…movement…changing policies…informed, exciting, keep it coming. A lot of policy change, so the larger words here in our word cloud are things that more people are speaking to, using data to change awareness, absolutely…awareness raising, exciting I think it's exciting also, listening…understanding what people are sharing…and... okay so a lot of great thoughts here thank you so much for sharing. So, a lot about really thinking about how to make change. Okay I'm going to move us on to the next slide and I'm going to turn this one over to you, Barry.
[Barry Keppard speaking] Thanks Kathleen. Yes so really, really wonderful thoughts about what this data to action support means too and I think it's an important part of this work where none of us want this data to just sit somewhere and not be aware for others but also not be unconnected to actions that we can take too. So as regional data action support, the three groups here but also working with Department of Public Health we’ll be available to help with data requests that you may have for a particular geography. So if you're interested in a certain city, a certain town, maybe work across a set of cities and towns, or county level we’ll be available for that part of it as well too and then you may also have a community that might be a more of focus to you one that you connect to from an identity or from a shared experience and so we can think about looking at the data for that information. We can also provide support too is if you want to bring this data I think one of the points was around kind of listening and awareness so if you want to bring this data to a particular place too we can help with engagement to really kind of contextualize the findings and I think that would bring often us bringing some greater familiarity with the data and the connections but really wanting to defer to you all as being those folks that are closest to the experience and what's happening within those kind of communities that you're connected with. And then lastly if you yourself are interested in other ways you'd want to explore how to use this data, what other resources, for example, is there other data that could be pulled in. Do we want to think about stories people tell in addition to the quantitative data we're really helping willing to help and kind of be part of that and really think about it from that perspective of we know for a lot of systemic issues and structural issues not everybody has those same opportunities and supports and in many cases face barriers in terms of getting at health equity and so if there's ways that can kind of help draw that message out more and do that through the data really great to help with that as well
[Kathleen Szegda speaking] Great thanks Barry
[Barry Keppard speaking] Thanks Kathleen
[Kathleen Szegda speaking] okay so the next poll we have is we want to get a better understanding of who's in our room today for the webinar so if you go back to that same link [QR code on screen] that was in there if you could indicate, so you'll have the opportunity to drop a pin where you are located, so if you could go ahead and do that that'll give us a sense of who's in the room. Where do you primarily live, work, or play. We'll take a minute as people are doing that. [Pause while people respond to the survey]. Great so really we are having people from all across the Commonwealth here today. Great thank you. Okay so I'm going to keep us going. It's wonderful to see the representation we have from all across the state here today.
[Kathleen Szegda speaking] So as Barry had mentioned part of what we're doing is providing data and action support through this and so as part of our work with you all as T.A. providers, or support providers, we’ll be providing tailored guidance on how to use the CHES data to support action framework, so there's a framework that is developed you can see in the visual. This framework that really centers equity, voice, power, community engagement, and collaboration in this model and so we developed this as part of our work for CHES and the Root Cause Solution Exchange and so we'll be using this as a framework as we work with you all to think about how you can use the CHEI data for action. And we'll work with you to think about what are ways to elevate the core values in this framework as you're thinking about how you're going to use data for action that centers health equity, community engagement and collaboration, sharing power, and lifting up community voice. There's a number of resources we've identified as part of the framework document and so we can help to recommend resources and also other ways to build capacity to think about using data for action and using this framework. And then also have the resource itself, the document that we'll be able to share with you as you engage in this work.
[Kathleen Szegda speaking] Okay so we have another poll and we’d like to know as you're thinking about taking action on the data. What kind of support would be helpful for you as you think about the CHEI data and using it to take action? So, if you can, this is another one where you can go back to the poll and then put in your response. Type in your response. And again, it's the same link as before. [QR Code on screen]. So, we have, meeting to discuss…connecting to others…ways to share out information, like infographics…making data as easy to understand as possible…conversation to understand data…others interpreting the data…facilitate discussions around the data…use cases, these are great. Thank you so much for sharing...sharing with the community…share with partners …make available on website. Okay so this this is really helpful and these are the types of things that we are planning to be able to work with you on and talk through and this is a nice segue to examples of what some of the data request could be and then all like examples of what we've had in the past when we were working with the covid community impact survey.
[Kathleen Szegda speaking] So, one way or one reason that people have asked for the data is to explore, to better understand the communities that they're serving, whether that's a geographic community or communities based on Identity or other demographics. So that could be to understand needs or to understand what people are experiencing in the areas you're targeting. And then information can also be used for planning and development so examples are for grant applications, Community Health Improvement plans, the data has been used for that in the past, the previous survey, strategic planning, is another example and then also for assessment and research so Community Health Needs Assessments, research reports. For example, in western Massachusetts the data was used for the Gender Equity Report that was done for western Massachusetts. Or it might be used for dashboards, as well. And in terms of how the data might be provided to people who make these requests, I saw in the poll people interested in different data products and so I saw infographics and also having it be accessible and that's really important to us as well.
[Kathleen Szegda speaking] So, depending on your need then we would work with you to be able to get you the data that so that it will meet your needs, so in some cases in the past this is an example it's been tables. In some cases, we've done an infographic. In some cases, it's been presentations. And in some cases, it's been databytes to help to disseminate information.
[Kathleen Szegda speaking] So we'd love to hear more from you all. So, given the data request objectives that I've spoken to and there are others as well that people might be interested in the data for what data objectives are you interested in and again it's the same mentemeter link [QR Code on screen] and you would go ahead and just type it, indicate which one of these you'd be interested in. I see all of the above…exploration…planning and development…don't know yet and that we have a number of people in the past who weren't sure exactly how they were going to use the data and that was part of what we talked through with them. Great so looks like a lot of people are thinking about for planning and development and many people also about all of the above in addition to some for assessment and research and exploration okay Barry I'm gonna turn it back over to you.
[Barry Keppard speaking] Thanks Kathleen, so hopefully you've all got a chance here within those questions to think a little bit more about what this data can mean to you how you'd like to use it and so then how do you go about following up on that too. So, you can submit data requests using the link that's shown here too. There'll be information included either as follow up or might be available on the Community Health Equity Initiative website from the Department of Public Health with our contact information so you can reach out to us directly. We encourage you first to go to the form because that helps us take a little bit track of those requests and kind of coordinate them across the group. Thanks Rebecca so you can see the data request form now in the chat so please feel free to use that and we'll then do follow up as part of it in terms of when you submit a request we'll then essentially look to reach out to you to have a conversation. Part of that is because we don't want to make assumptions based on what we see in there and we also feel like kind of developing that relationship can help us provide a better data product or better support to at all. So in that conversation, we'd hope to talk a little bit more about the data possibilities within it but also be really candid about potentially limitations and other data sets we can think about and then be able to turn around those products in a way that can be helpful to you. We’ll look to be as timely as possible within all of that but ideally kind of getting you more familiar as a data set that you can come back to and get more familiarity with. And as noted in the process this could be iterative in the way that we go back and forth to make sure both you're getting what is most useful and applicable to the situation that you're in in but we can also kind of do it in a way that's responsible with the data both in kind of its opportunities and kind of making sure that the limitations are noted within the data as well too.
[Barry Keppard speaking] I think we might now go to the next slide it might turn it back to you in a second Ta-wei but just again want to say thank you everybody here for participating and just recognize really the wonderful work that's been happening across the team you see represented at the bottom of the slide but really the efforts from the Department of Public Health too and so I think I just want to check back with you Ta-wei... [Presentation ends]