title: Understanding communities today: using matching needs and services to assess community needs and design community-based services.
abstract: Matching Needs and Services (MNS) is a practice tool intended to help people who work with vulnerable children use rigorously assembled information on needs as a guide to design, implement, and evaluate more-effective services. To do this, MNS focuses on needs but links them to outcomes and thresholds before dealing with the services to achieve those outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Dartington-I, Madison, WI, USA.
authors.forename: Kenneth I
authors.initials: KI
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D019058:Community Networks; D003625:Data Collection; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D014481:United States