Tracking the Use and Impact of a Community Social Report: Where Does the Information Go?

The purpose of this paper is to report on a study evaluating the extent to which a social report (entitled “Hamilton-Wentworth Profile on Children and Youth”) was read and used by recipients. Subjects were divided into two groups: an Active Group which had worked on producing the Profile and/or requested copies of it once it had been released, and a Passive Group which had received copies of the Profile through a general mailing list used for …