The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services manages the delivery of health and human-related services for all North Carolinians, especially our most vulnerable people – children, elderly, disabled and low-income families. The Department works closely with health care professionals, community leaders, advocacy groups, local, state and federal entities and many other stakeholders to make this happen. 

The Family Insight Dashboard compiles common themes representing a broad spectrum of factors essential for families to thrive; including 16 county level data points. We used the survey responses to determine how these data points could be divided into six categories that represent families’ perspectives on what they need to thrive.

The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a pivotal developmental stage as young people learn the skills needed to be healthy and productive adults. This process can be complicated for youth with foster care experience. Here’s what we know about the experiences of these youth in North Carolina. 

The purpose of this dashboard is to give both state and local leadership a way to measure our progress across the education continuum and to unite around common goals as we work collaboratively to turn the myFutureNC Commission‘s call to action into a plan of action to make the 2030 vision of 2 million North Carolinians ages 25-44 with a postsecondary credential or degree a reality.

The Neighborhood Opportunity Index takes an abstract concept--opportunity--and creates a single number to compare levels of opportunity for a given geographic region. There is no single measure of opportunity, so combining variables that are known to influence opportunity provides a better indication of actual opportunity than any single variable.