1. Using the Data to Win Friends and Influence People Sarah Rubenstein, OCHART Project Manager Ontario HIV Treatment Network

2. Three Ways to Access your Data OCHART Agency report OCHART Board report Request graphs

6. Request Graphs

7. Ways to Use your Data Board of Directors Annual General Meeting Staff Program planning Identify trends and emerging issues

8. Conference presentations (e.g. AIDS 2008) Help with proposal / grant submissions Support advocacy work Monitor and evaluate the implementation of new programs Ways to Use your Data (cont.)

9. Success Stories Funding from ACAP Funding from LHIN –Section 6: Client characteristics: mental health, substance use; ethnoracial background –Section 11: Age, gender, number with HIV/AIDS

10. Questions for Discussion 1. Are you using OCHART data in your work now? If so, how? 2. What impact has the data had? Do you have success stories—a situation where having the data made a difference? Situations where having the data wasn’t enough? 3. What challenges do you face accessing, interpreting or using the data? 4. What can OCHART staff do to help?