ISP News & Information

Fall 2011 Intelligence for Social
Policy Conference Summary
and Information

Foundation for Child Development recommends guidelines for integrating PreK experience data into state longitudinal data systems.

Washington State releases report: Characteristics and Criminal Histories of Adult Offenders Admitted to Treatment

Administrative Data Systems Key in Producing Rigorous and Low-Cost Program Evaluations Finds the Coalition for Evidence Based Policy

April 2012--OMB/CBO Budget Scoring Guidance underscores benefits of rigorous program evaluations using cross-program integrated data

March 2012--LA County Recognized as a 2012 Computerworld Honors Laureate

March 2012--ISP Network Receives MacArthur Foundation Award for Multi-site Study on Assisted Housing and Education

Dept. of Ed. Releases final regulations amending FERPA

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Purpose

Intelligence for Social Policy (ISP) is an initiative funded by the Catherine T. and John D. MacArthur Foundation in 2009 through a three-year grant to University of Pennsylvania Professors Dennis Culhane, School of Social Policy and Practice, and John Fantuzzo, Graduate School of Education. The principal aim of ISP is to improve the quality of education, health and human service agencies' policies and practices through the use of integrated data systems. Quality integrated data systems are designed to help executive leaders in municipal, county and state government evaluate and establish effective programs and services for the people they serve.

ISP will accomplish this through three main thrusts: promoting a professional network, establishing guidelines for practice, and demonstrating research and analytic capacities that integrated data systems enable. ISP's activities will build support for the efforts of state, county and municipal education, health and human service agencies to improve their use of data for policy analysis and program improvement.

Our professional network includes the following sites: City of Philadelphia; Allegheny County, PA; City of New York; City of Chicago (Chapin Hall, University of Chicago); State of South Carolina; State of Michigan; Los Angeles County, CA; State of Washington; State of Florida (University of Southern Florida); and Cuyahoga County, OH (Center on Urban Poverty & Community Development, Case Western Reserve University).