Iowa child care centers cite staff recruitment/retention, facility challenges, and difficulty maintaining low child to staff ratio's in order to provide high quality care as challenges they are facing. See the brief HERE

What datasets are included? I2D2 includes legal agreements for data sharing from all of the departments who contribute their data for program evaluation. See the projects HERE

Brief: Supporting Families Through Coordinated Services Partnerships This brief describes findings from telephone interviews which were conducted in order to gain information about how coordinated service approaches serve children and families. Topics discussed include information about the development of the coordinated services approach, the partners and funding involved in coordination, the services included in the coordinated services approach, and the coordinated services approach’s use of data.

Fostering coordinated service partnerships can help states lay the groundwork for integrated data systems work as they build trust and understand the value of sharing data to improve programs for children and families. 

Extending Postpartum Medicaid Coverage: State Pathways and Policy Impacts In response to the concern over rising pregnancy-related mortality and morbidity across the United States, this brief discusses the extension of postpartum coverage of Medicaid for 12 months after birth.

Using an integrated data approach to this type of work could allow for a better understanding of the current impact of ending coverage after 60 days or longitudinal examination of child development and family outcomes following expansion of coverage.

"What about the dads?" Linking fathers and children in administrative data: a systematic scoping review This paper proposes a conceptual model of dimensions of fatherhood, identifies and categorizes methods used for linking fathers with their children in administrative data, and maps those methods onto the dimensions of fatherhood.