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Progress of the Syracuse / Onondaga County (New York) Services Integration Project toward the development of a community capacity for planning in human services is documented. The project's objectives are the development and establishment of a data bank for human services, located and structured in such a way as to assure its continued quality and use. Community input during the developmental period comes from three task forces in the areas of health, education, and social services, and from additional ad hoc groups. The data bank initially will have three files: (1) comprehensive data on community services; (2) information about the clients and their service needs; and (3) information from followup on referrals, indicative of the degree to which needs are met. The services information system represents the first component of the data bank. Services information is indexed, updated on a monthly basis, and placed on microfilm for use in six demonstration sites in the community in support of information and referral activities. When fully operational, information will flow back and forth between providers and the data bank for their mutual benefit -- raw data to the data bank, and processed data back to those planning human services. The report includes summaries of activities related to the development of a service taxonomy and of agency profiles, indexing, data collection, and site selection for microfilm readers. As of spring 1976, the project was responding to seven or eight requests for services information per week. The cost of a single services information system update is estimated at $433.95. Schematic illustrations and supporting data accompany the text.