Excerpt from Final Report of the Commission to Effect Government Reorganization: March 1992 The Connecticut health and human services system is a dynamic and complex web of supports and services delivered to a diverse population in a wide variety of settings. The strength of the system is its ability to serve the broad range of needs of Connecticut citizens, some of whom face multiple problems with few resources of their own. While serving many diverse needs and populations, Connecticut's human services are not always coordinated, flexible, or responsive to the client needs. Indeed, the fragmentation and inflexibility of the system is manifested in its bewildering array of workers, the applications and forms that must be filled out, and the regulations that must be followed in order to obtain even the minimal level of services. The disarray creates and sustains the widespread perception in the public mind that the system is unable to address the real needs and concerns of the state's citizenry in a responsive way. This perception undermines public confidence and willingness to invest in a system so desperately in need of additional support and resources. In order to address the above concerns about the Connecticut health and human services system, the Task Force on Social Services and Services to Persons with Disabilities of the Commission to Effect Government Reorganization was established to examine how to restructure, reform, and ultimately rebuild this life-sustaining system. The specifications for building a new structure must affect an integration of services that will better respond to client needs and deliver services in a coordinated, unfragmented manner. This integration will also address duplications and inefficiencies in the system that reduce its effectiveness to serve clients and waste valuable resources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.