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DHYAC cultivates youth leaders who use data to listen, question, and advocate for stronger, more equitable communities across Connecticut.

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2025-2026 Council member photos and bios to be posted here.

Excerpt from an overview created by Wellville:

North Hartford, CT’s designation as a federal Promise Zone (NHPZ) in 2015 mobilized a renewed spirit of collaboration among city leaders, local organizations and citizens on behalf of North Hartford’s 24,000 residents. The North Hartford Triple Aim Collaborative (NHTAC) was launched in 2017 as the Health and Wellbeing work group for the NHPZ. Building on the significant work to date, the Collaborative is currently expanding its reach and impact by harnessing the increasing convergence of partners and resources committed to creating a healthier, more vibrant community for all.

The Collaborative serves as the Health and Wellbeing workgroup for the North Hartford Promise Zone (NHPZ), and also aligns with other local efforts to advance health and wellbeing throughout the city. In addition, the Collaborative is the designated lead for national initiatives such as Trinity Health’s Transforming Communities Initiative, Invest Health, and Wellville.

With the City of Hartford Health and Human Services as the lead, the Collaborative was recently selected as a “reference community” for the Health Enhancement Community (HEC) Initiative, which is part of Connecticut’s State Innovation Model (SIM) aimed at health care delivery and financing reforms. The Collaborative will participate in the development of new community-centered models that encourage multi-stakeholder partnerships across the state to work together to prevent disease, improve health, and lower costs. These new models will create paths to financial sustainability, potentially through “shared savings” from health insurers and other payers that reward specific outcomes.

Current Examples of Capacity Building

In addition to these and other actions to improve community health and wellbeing, the Collaborative is also co-investing in backbone support and other functional areas needed for success. For example:

Shared Data and Measurement: In partnership with DataHaven, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and others, the Collaborative is developing a data and measurement system to establish shared goals and to track the ongoing impact of Collaborative actions through metrics that matter to community members and other stakeholders. DataHaven received grants in 2015 and 2018 from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Saint Francis, Connecticut Health Foundation, Hartford HealthCare, and others to field the statewide DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey (in 2015 and 2018). Current work is being done to produce a comprehensive regional community health and wellbeing index and indicators report tentatively titled the Greater Hartford Community Wellbeing Index. Planned to include significant stakeholder input, the cross-sector, collaborative report is designed to help meet the needs of multiple organizations through a coordinated local source. Still in development, the vision is that this shared work will serve simultaneously as the “data and measurement core” for area hospital Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) and Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIPs) for health departments and hospitals, and a measurement system for health the NHTAC.

Excerpt describing the data collaborative from February 2017 Status Report:

“In 2015, a state economic competitiveness diagnostic was performed and provided insights into Connecticut’s economic strengths and challenges. Key findings showed that we have great assets and strong economic drivers in research and development, bioscience and health data. In response to those key findings, the passage of Special Act 16-20 established the Connecticut Health Data Collaborative Working Group (CHDC). With the goal of creating stronger networks and partnerships among existing institutions, participant stakeholders convened from the fields of community health, healthcare, health insurance, research and development, education, data and technology, bioscience among others. They were charged with finding ways in which stakeholders can — and should– collaborate more effectively, rather than working independently of one another. After just four and half months of intense focus on synergies and relationship building, new opportunities have been identified, new partnerships have formed, and audacious goals are being set to make Connecticut a national leader in the field of precision medicine and personalized health. The following summary serves as a status report of the work of the CHDC. Thanks to the leadership of the group’s committed stakeholders, a new vision for the development of the precision medicine and personalized health sector has emerged. The CHDC has identified four areas of collaboration to serve as guiding pillars, including: 1. Research and development 2. Economic growth initiatives 3. Access, privacy, and security initiatives 4. Data of population health

Connecticut would be one of the first in the nation to adopt a statewide initiative which would leverage our world class academic and research institutions, hub of insurance organizations, and a growing tech industry. Within each of these pillars listed below, the CHDC has identified goals that will put the state in a strong position to retain and attract talent, build an economic cluster around precision medicine and health data, and promote population health.”

Resources:

1. Connecticut General Assembly page with agendas, presentations, notes and membership list

2. February 2017 Status Report of the Connecticut Health Data Collaborative (CHDC): Report to the Connecticut Commission on Economic Competitiveness and The Commerce Committee

3. Lawmakers set aside partisanship to back bioscience industry (March 2017 Article, CT Mirror)

In January 2016, the City of New Haven launched a new City Transformation Plan, which was created with extensive input from city residents, DataHaven, and other citywide partners. The site included an interactive data dashboard built in partnership with DataHaven, based in large part on the Greater New Haven Community Index and the DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey, both of which are updated on a regular basis.

The Transformation Plan is a City of New Haven strategy to increase opportunity, improve educational outcomes, and create safe, healthy neighborhoods.  The City applied for designation of a portion of the City as a federal Promise Zone as one implementation activity.

CARE was established in 2007 to identify solutions to New Haven’s health challenges through an approach known as community engaged research.  The mission of CARE is to improve the health of New Haven residents through visionary leadership, community engagement, collaborative community-based research, and dissemination of findings.  CARE has developed unique collaborations between scientists and the New Haven community. This alliance includes community organizations, neighborhood associations, hospitals and health centers, city government and public schools, faith communities, arts and cultural institutions, businesses, Southern Connecticut State University, Yale University and its School of Public Health, and other academic partners domestically and globally.

http://care.southernct.edu