Comprehensive Planning and Research

The three overall goals for the Federation’s planning effort include to profile the needs, existing resources and gaps in services for selected vulnerable populations; to identify types, amounts and purpose of existing funding for human services in DuPage; and to develop recommendations for funders and other decision makers regarding ways to fill gaps in services and to improve services to vulnerable populations, as well as the relative priorities of the needs.

A Guide to the Working Poor (May 2002)

Working Poor Recommendations (February 2003)

A Profile of Homelessness in DuPage County (July 2003)

A Profile of DuPage County Immigrants (December 2003)

Mental Illness and Substance Abuse in Children and Adults in DuPage County (March 2005)

Who Are the New Neighbors?
Facts about Demographic Change in DuPage County (June 2006)

Why Does She Stay? A Profile on Domestic Violence in DuPage County
(October 2008)