Learning Library

Our Learning Library is intended as a virtual resource center where professionals can go for a broad range of information relating to interoperability, information-sharing and the six domains in which NIC primarily works: human services, education, public health, public safety, health information technology and emergency services. We have vetted and aggregated numerous studies, guidance documents and other materials, which can be sorted in a variety of ways for easy access and use – and we will add resources continually over time. The Learning Library is available to all professionals interested in the subject matter.

To make the Learning Library as robust and beneficial as possible, we welcome recommendations of relevant content that users encounter elsewhere, that they have produced themselves or that they are already utilizing. Please fill out and submit the form below to provide your suggestions and comments, or send an email to info@stewardsofchange.org.

09-19-2018 Report

Data Sharing Within Cross-Sector Collaborations: Challenges and Opportunities

This report that highlights challenges and lessons learned from the BUILD Health Challenge grantees. The BUILD Health Challenge seeks to contribute to the creation of a new norm in the U.S., one that puts multisector, community-driven partnerships at the center of health in order to reduce health disparities caused by system-based or social inequity.

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09-19-2018 Web Page

Mystic Valley Public Health Coalition

Mystic Valley Public Health Coalition (MVPHC) is a coalition of health departments…It was developed in 2004 to address Emergency Preparedness mandates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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09-10-2018 Report

An Assessment of Opioid Related Deaths in Massachusetts (2013-2014)

As part of a multi‐faceted effort to address this unprecedented public health crisis, Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2015 was passed by the Massachusetts Legislature and signed into law…in August 2015. This new law permits the linkage and analysis of existing data across state government in order to better guide policy development and programmatic decision‐ making to successfully tackle the current opioid epidemic.  

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09-10-2018 Article

House Passes Bill to Open Government Data About Opioid Abuse

The House passed legislation that would make government data on the opioid epidemic more widely available and accessible to groups fighting drug abuse around the country…The Indexing Narcotics, Fentanyl and Opioids Act would require the Health and Human Services Department to create an online information dashboard that aggregates publicly available data on substance abuse from federal, state and local governments and organizations.

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