HARTFORD OPPORTUNITY YOUTH DATA INTEGRATION PROJECT
Project Description:
HDC gathers and integrates data from multiple providers of services to opportunity youth ages 16-29 in Hartford to provide a comprehensive picture of opportunity youth in the community. By connecting data from non-profit service provider data with student data from the Hartford Public Schools, we are developing a systems-level understanding of the services provided to opportunity youth, the characteristics of the youth who are served, and the outcomes of those services.
HDC also conducted a data integration project for the Hartford Student Internship program managed by Capital Workforce Partners.
Research questions:
What is the unduplicated count of youth served by different programs?
What are the demographics of the youth served?
What types of services do these youth receive/access?
How many youth successfully complete the programs?
What are their educational and career outcomes?
Who is Involved?
HOYC Evaluator/Requestor: Ron Schack Ph.D
Current Data Sharing Partners: Capital Workforce Partners, City of Hartford, Compass Youth Collaborative, Hartford Public Schools, Our Piece of the Pie, Urban League of Greater Hartford
Project Milestones
Data License Request reviewed and approved by HDC in July 2019
First data integration completed in November 2020
Data integration projects completed in 2020, 2021, and 2022
Curated datasets only contained relevant data elements
Multi-agency datasets linked at the individual level adhering to best practices and security standards
Cleaned, standardized and de-duplicated all linked datasets
Aggregate level data given back to the provider agencies
Questions about the project? Contact Geethika Fernando at gfernando@ctdata.org