PUBLICATIONS

Data Briefs

What is I2D2? October 2020. Iowa’s Integrated Data System for Decision Making, Issue Brief #1:10.20.

What is I2D2?

Iowa’s Child Care Shortage: It’s an Economic Issue. December 2020. Iowa’s Integrated Data System for Decision Making, Issue Brief #2:12.20.

Iowa’s Child Care Shortage: It’s an Economic Issue

Preschool Access: Fill in the Gaps. December 2020. Iowa’s Integrated Data System for Decision Making, Issue Brief #3:12.20.

Preschool Access: Fill in the Gaps

Reports

Riser, Q.*, Rouse, H., Bruning, J.*, Gress, A.*, Dorius, C., & Foley, T. (February, 2020). Estimated Cost of the Child Care Shortage in Iowa. I2D2 Policy Brief prepared for Early Childhood Iowa. Des Moines, IA.

Estimated Cost of the Child Care Shortage in Iowa

Rouse, H.L., & Dorius, C. (May, 2019). Iowa’s Integrated Data System. Report for prepared for the National Academy of Sciences Committee on National Statistics.

Iowa’s Integrated Data System

Rouse, H.L., Dorius, C., Lippard, C., Peterson, C., Choi, Y., Voas, R., Riser, Q*., Bartel, M.*, Ku, S.*, Bruning, J.*, Gress, A.*, Kelley, E.*, Facile, K.*, & Flake, L*. (September, 2019). Early Childhood Iowa Needs Assessment 2019. Early Childhood Iowa’s Integrated Data System, Iowa State University. Prepared for Early Childhood Iowa. Des Moines, IA.

Early Childhood Iowa Needs Assessment 2019

Dorius, C., Dorius, S., Rouse, H., Talbert, E., Ku, S.*, Bartel, M.*, Voorhees, T.*, Van Selous, K.*, Denlinger, M.*, Bahe, D.*, Burdick, D.*, Manful, G.*, & McInroy, K.* (September, 2019). Substance Use Among Iowa Families: An Intergenerational Mixed Method Approach for Informing Policy and Practice. Iowa Substance Use Surveillance Project, Iowa State University. Report prepared for the Iowa Department of Public Health. Des Moines, IA.

Substance Use Among Iowa Families: An Intergenerational Mixed Method Approach for Informing Policy and Practice

Dorius, C., Dorius, S., Rouse, H. L., and Van Selous, K. (October, 2019). Technical Report: Substance Use and its Correlates in Iowa’s 99 Counties. Report prepared for the Iowa Department of Public Health.

Technical Report: Substance Use and its Correlates in Iowa’s 99 Counties

Rouse, H., Dorius, C., Bartel, M.*, Riser, Q.*, Bruning, J.*, Gress, A.*, & Kelley, E.* (March, 2020). All County Needs Assessment. Early Childhood Iowa’s Integrated Data System, Iowa State University. Prepared for Early Childhood Iowa. Des Moines, IA.

All County Needs Assessment

Dorius, C., Rouse, H., Taylor, G., Hanson, B., Burke, S., Shaw, R., & Seeger, C. (February, 2020). Mapping Vulnerability in Iowa’s Early Childhood Systems. Report prepared for Early Childhood Iowa. Des Moines, IA.

Mapping Vulnerability in Iowa’s Early Childhood Systems

Presentations

Rouse, H.L., Dorius, C., Davydov, K., Richey, E., & Winslow, A., (November, 2020). Systems integration for systems improvement: Iowa’s integrated data approach to support early childhood program and policy research. Poster presentation for the National Research Conference on Early Childhood. (online due to COVID-19).

Systems integration for systems improvement: Iowa’s integrated data approach to support early childhood program and policy research

Rouse, H.L., Dorius, C., Bruning, J., & Horras, J. (April, 2020). Data in Action: A State-University Partnership in Evidence-based Home Visiting. Invited webinar presentation for Data Sharing Community of Practice, Child Trends, Bethesda, MD.

Data in Action: A State-University Partnership in Evidence-based Home Visiting

Early Childhood Iowa (2019). Webinar to share results of Statewide Needs Assessment and ECI Strategic Plan 2019-2020.

Webinar to share results of Statewide Needs Assessment and ECI Strategic Plan 2019-2020.

Dorius, C., Rouse, H.L. & Richey, B. (November, 2019). Bridging the Agency-Academic Divide to Integrate Data and Serve “The Whole Child”. Paper presentation at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management annual conference, Denver, CO.

Bridging the Agency-Academic Divide to Integrate Data and Serve “The Whole Child”

Rouse, H.L., & Dorius, C. (May, 2019). Iowa’s Integrated Data System. Invited presentation at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Committee on National Statistics Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Washington, DC.

Iowa’s Integrated Data System. Invited presentation at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

November, 2020. Iowa’s Integrated Data System for Decision-Making (I2D2): Early Childhood Iowa State Board Update.

September, 2020. Iowa’s Integrated Data System for Decision-Making (I2D2): Project Update. Report prepared for the Early Childhood Iowa State Board.

June, 2020. Iowa’s Integrated Data System for Decision-Making: Project Update. Report prepared for the Early Childhood Iowa State Board.

April, 2020. Iowa’s Integrate Data System for Decision-Making: Project Update. Report prepared for the Early Childhood Iowa State Board.

February, 2020. Early Childhood Iowa Integrated Data System (IDS): Overview. Report prepared for the Early Childhood Iowa State Board.

January, 2020. Early Childhood Iowa Integrated Data System (IDS): Project Update. Report prepared for Iowa’s Legislative Session, Early Childhood Day-on-the-Hill. Des Moines, IA.

January, 2020. Early Childhood Iowa Integrated Data System (IDS): Analytic Project Summaries. Report prepared for Iowa’s Legislative Session, Early Childhood Day-on-the-Hill. Des Moines, IA.

April, 2019. Early Childhood Iowa Integrated Data System (IDS): ECI State Board Project Update. Report prepared for the Early Childhood Iowa State Board.

December, 2018. Early Childhood Iowa Integrated Data System (IDS): Project Update. Report prepared for the Early Childhood Iowa Stakeholder Alliance.

April, 2018. Developing an Early Childhood Integrated Data System for Iowa: Project Update. Report prepared for the Early Childhood Iowa State Board.

September, 2017. Advancing the Development of an Early Childhood Integrated Data System (IDS): Project Update. Report prepared for the Early Childhood Iowa Stakeholder Alliance.

November, 2016. Recommendations to Advance the Development of an Early Childhood Integrated Data System. Prepared for the Early Childhood Iowa Steering Committee.

latest news and resources

I2D2 Director Heather Rouse has officially been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Iowa State University. Congratulations, Heather, on this well-deserved accomplishment!

April 19, 2021

Research from the I2D2 team was recently featured at the 2021 Annual Conference for the Society of Research on Development. Graduate students led two posters co-authored with the I2D2 team and state partners that were designated as Strategic Posters exemplifying policy research related to children’s development. https://www.srcd.org/event/srcd-2021-biennial-meeting View the posters here, available until...

April 19, 2021

Early Childhood Iowa held its Equity Advisory Committee meeting on March 23, 2021, where the I2D2 team led a discussion about how we attend to equity in data collection, integration, analysis, and dissemination. This work uses concepts from the Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP)...

April 1, 2021

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December 21, 2020