Giving Compass' Take:

• In this story, Arnold Ventures describes how social service, criminal justice, and health systems can pool their data to better help at-risk individuals. This approach is called data-driven justice.

• Researchers in Iowa found that four frequent utilizers over a four-year period cost more than $2 million in services, yet two were dead by the end of the term and the others were still experiencing homelessness. How can advocates make sustainable change by limiting these costs, or creating better results with existing funds?

• To learn about strategies for ending youth homelessness in rural areas, click here.

Long Beach is one of three pilot sites across the United States working to sync data from all its services — criminal justice, health, and social services — into one central database to better understand who has been seeking help and give them the attention they need. That way, when police respond to an incident involving a person who is homeless or mentally ill, they can easily access that data, and the default won’t be to place the person in handcuffs and haul them off to the local jail.

Read the full article about data-driven justice by David Hebert at Arnold Ventures.