Robert Goerge is a Chapin Hall research fellow with more than 20 years of research focused on improving the available information on children and families, particularly those who require specialized services related to abuse/neglect, disability, poverty, or mental illness. Dr. Goerge developed Chapin Hall's pioneering Integrated Database on Children's Services in Illinois, which links the administrative data from multiple service agencies to provide a comprehensive picture of children's use of publicly provided or financed service programs. His work provides high quality information to policymakers to improve the programs serving children and their families. Dr. Goerge also studies the effects of out-of-school programs on youth, and how the provision of services to children and their well-being are affected by neighborhood conditions. He has been a member of the Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a technical work group member of the National Study of Child Well-Being, funded by the U.S. Department Health and Human Services. Dr. Goerge received a Ph.D. from the School of Social Service Administration of the University of Chicago. He is also cofounder of the International Society for Child Indicators.