3rd Annual National Convening: Cross-Agency Collaboration for Evidence-Building

NASWA members joined their state partners from the education, human services, and university communities at the third annual meeting of Multi-State Data Collaboratives on March 27th in Washington, D.C. NASWA serves as the multi-sector backbone organization for the Collaboratives, under the leadership of Managing Director Yvette Chocolaad, NASWA’s Workforce Policy & Research Director, who welcomed members to the meeting.

The annual convening brings together state program and data leaders to build a network of multi-state data collaboratives. The state driven regional collaboratives support agencies as they innovate in the use of data for the betterment of society.

Featured on panels were state agency leaders Dana Brandt (RI), Jake Walker (AR), Anna Hui (MO) and Lesley Hirsch (NJ); along with George Putnam (IL), Adam Leonard (TX) and Tod Massa (VA).

NASWA President and CEO Scott B. Sanders and SHEEO's Carrie Klein opened the second day of the two-day conference that followed the state day, the 3rd Annual National Convening: Cross-Agency Collaboration for Evidence-Building, hosted by the Coleridge Initiative, NASWA’s partner service organization for the Collaboratives. At the Coleridge Convening, federal agencies joined state agencies to discuss data product innovation.

NASWA provides policy, advocacy, and meeting services to collaboratives, under a foundation grant. The Coleridge Initiative provides technical services, including applied advanced data analytics training and data hosting, management, and access.