Use Cases

The Broward Data Collaborative (BDC) agencies have worked together to create the proposed BDC use cases that are flexible and collaborative with the community of children and families we mutually serve in Broward County.  

The type of BDC use cases include: 

(1) Descriptive uses of data (e.g., indicators) to look at population-based dynamics of a problem. Data use = linked and de-identified individual level data for aggregate reporting.

• Creating shared indicator dashboards that are routinely updated with baseline indicators for ongoing community wide needs assessments and progress.  This will facilitate community wide administrative planning and long-term tracking of community initiatives to improve conditions for Broward’s Children and families.
• Reporting community level aggregate counts of children and families receiving or eligible for services that can be easily accessed and used with other non-BDC data sources for individual and collaborative BDC grant applications.
• Democratizing data access for community organizers to better understand and describe the systemic experiences of the community/population served by a human service system.  This will allow community organizers to empower Broward’s children and families to hold the service systems they utilize accountable and to co-innovate solutions.

(2) Evaluation, Performance Management & Research to ascertain how different subgroups within a population respond to interventions. Data use = linked and de-identified individual level data for aggregate reporting.

• Comparing the benefits and cost-effectiveness of various programs and services to address the needs of specific subsets of children and families in Broward County (e.g., demographic and or system involved).
• Evaluating the effect of Broward County’s undoing racism initiatives to reduce racial disparities across sectors.  This would show how neighborhood conditions change over time when implementing coordinated cross agency interventions to address the inequity in neighborhood conditions caused by systemic racism.
• Democratizing data access for grassroots (e.g., small non-profits and faith based) organizations to undertake participatory research efforts on the BDC agency programs and services delivered in their local community.  This will address the data information asymmetry preventing grassroots organizations from conducting a research effort based upon their lived experiences of the services and programs implemented in their local community. 
• Undertake Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) efforts on the services and programs to facilitate collaborative CPAR projects based upon the lived experience of system participants and expertise of system professionals, to generate mutually beneficial solutions to systemic challenges.   

(3) Care & Service Coordination using identifiable data to find individuals for services, coordination of referrals and conduct focused recruitment of people who would benefit fromm case management services.  Data use = identifiable data for individual level care & service coordination.

• Establishing countywide individual level indicators to flag high end users of cross system services so the BDC agencies can assign these users case workers to ensure they are receiving the appropriate service interventions.
• Creating care coordination dashboards for credentialed users (e.g. case workers) to improve the exchange of information among system professionals serving individual Broward’s children and families.  This will better align the services provided by the BDC agencies so they can support referrals and provide holistic services to the children and families they serve.
• Democratizing data access for the individual service participants to access their own data.