From Data To Decisions: What Is Needed For Planning Public Services?

Chapin Hall and the Urban Institute hosted this Thursday’s Child policy forum on how large public agencies as well as smaller community-based organizations can best meet the needs of their target populations and improve service delivery. Recent studies on five services- mental health care, substance abuse treatment, foster care, adult incarceration, and juvenile incarceration-show that 23 percent of Illinois families using multiple services accounted for 86 percent of the funding spent on those services.