States for the Future is a data to policy network dedicated to empowering states for a resilient future. It’s a dynamic network of state policy professionals and organizations working to inform next generation efforts with data, research, and policy in areas that impact all - civic engagement and democracy, health and well-being, water and energy, education and workforce.

To ensure access to early care and education services and for the services themselves to be equitable and effective in meeting the needs of children and families, the Kansas Early Childhood Data Trust will be working with state agencies and several data systems to identify the distinct number of children being served in programs at the state and local level.

Developing cross-sector referral networks can be an effective way of addressing community-level health and well-being outcomes.

Many technical projects in the public and social sector fail at the adoption and utilization stage because the technology wasn’t designed to solve a problem people have - it was designed to fill a technical specification.

Building community resilience actively repairs the social fabric that connects people to each other and alters collective health and well-being trajectories for the better.

Technology can play a role in transformative change in communities.

Social sector organizations have long sought to share, integrate, and use their combined data to achieve collective goals and solve common pain points.

Tech-Enabled Community Resilience is a model for harnessing the power of networks in a community ecosystem to influence and change social and health outcomes.

The Kansas Early Childhood Data Trust is designed to turn insight into action for children, families, providers, communities, and agencies in Kansas.