Human Services Planning

Our mission is to research, evaluate and implement innovative social policy through regional collaborative planning and community funding.

We work with many kinds of organizations to plan for the future needs of Boulder residents and provide support for the community to meet Boulder's current human service needs.
We coordinate the department’s planning processes for the Housing and Human Services Master Plan, community projects and coordination with other departments across the city.
We use national and state planning and policy perspectives to focus on issues that have strategic, local impact. We provide:
- information about and analysis of community social and human service issues;
- development of community solutions to social concerns;
- policy analysis and development;
- surveys and assessments of needs, trends and best practices
- technical assistance for nonprofit organizations to build community capacity;
- evaluation of city funding investments;
- partnerships with community and government organizations to provide comprehensive, coordinated, integrated human services; and
- funding to nonprofit organizations to support community services.