Q&A
Data sharing agreements and their effectiveness in veteran outreach
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Jason Loughran from DVS discusses examples of data sharing agreements and their effectiveness in veteran outreach. He highlights successful partnerships and plans for future collaborations with city council members.
- Successful data sharing agreement with Borough President Donovan Richards' office
- Work in progress with Councilwoman Zhang's office for a smaller veteran population
- Plans to conduct data sharing agreements with all city council members in 2025
Jason Loughran
1:02:34
Yeah.
1:02:35
Well, I'll speak on 2 examples, one that was highly effective and one that is work in progress.
1:02:40
So as the commissioner said, these data sharing agreements are critical for us to get what information we know to the council members who are partnering with, with us for veteran resource centers.
1:02:50
One of this well, the example of this going really well was the borough president, Donovan Richards' office.
1:02:55
We were able to conduct that data sharing agreement, and you may have noticed, but, veterans, like myself received direct mail campaigns directly from the borough president's office about veteran specific events.
1:03:07
So I personally saw a difference in just engagement from the VP's office.
1:03:12
Councilman Councilwoman Zhang and our partnership with her, when it came to her district, we had a significantly lower number of veterans' data, right, smaller geographical area.
1:03:22
And so we were able to commit, submit a data transfer to their office where we provided them all of the veterans that we knew about that were in their district, and we gave them about, you know, 2 or 3 weeks or more to engage with them, to prepare them to for the, for our staff to come on a specific day.
1:03:40
You know, it wasn't as effective as we hoped, but we are talking about a very small cohort of veterans in a very specific district.
1:03:47
But over time, we believe that this is gonna be, a great asset to city council members and our partnership, with these veteran resource centers.
1:03:56
And we do intend to conduct the same data sharing agreements with all of you and the rest of city council as we receive more of the data.
1:04:03
So it's something that in 2025, it's a top priority of ours to be able to give this information to you and all the city council members.
Robert Holden
1:04:10
And and how many veterans do do you do you have, I mean, off the top of your head, how many veterans do you have their their email addresses and they're they're it's working?