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County releases annual Children's Data Book and expands children—s budget data collection
Summary
County staff and Kids in Common presented the 2025 Santa Clara County Children's Data Book and an update on a pilot to centralize programmatic data for the children's budget; the committee voted to receive the reports.
Santa Clara County officials and the nonprofit Kids in Common presented the 2025 Children—s Data Book on June 24 and outlined work to centralize programmatic and budget data for county-funded children's services.
The presentation and discussion focused on measures of child well-being, racial and ethnic disparities, and efforts to build a public-facing children's budget dashboard to show county investments. Sarah Duffy of the Office of Children and Families Policy and Dana Bunnett and Joy Murrieta, co-directors of Kids in Common, described trends in housing instability, food insecurity and social-emotional health among children in the county.
Why it matters: the data book and the children's budget are intended to align spending decisions with outcomes the board prioritizes, including school readiness, youth mental…
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