Tag: applications
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Busting Silos with the Record Matcher: Here’s How We Leverage AI for Entity Resolution
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve blogged before about the awkward – and often inappropriate – mismatch between the nature of most “generative AI” tools and the actual needs of the human service sector and the people being served by them. Specifically, these tools work with probabilistic patterns of language: they produce plausible sentences, which is not the…
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Introducing Open Referral’s Data Collaboration Toolkit
Open Referral’s data exchange standards enable different organizations to share resource directory data among different information systems. This makes it possible for communities to ensure that knowledge about the resources available to people in need can be efficiently managed and effectively accessed across an entire information ecosystem of different technologies. To make this kind of…
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Powering South Dakota’s Community Information Exchange: Helpline Center’s resource data service
[Editor note: We’re excited to share this post from Shauna Batcheller, Care Coordination Program Director at the Helpline Center, South Dakota’s 211 and 988 service provider] Nexus SD is a collaborative statewide initiative to develop capacities for community information exchange among health, human and social service providers across the state of South Dakota. This collaboration’s…
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Washington Communities for Children: developing the resource directory information supply chain
Washington Communities for Children (WCFC) is a network of early childhood coalitions – groups of local parents, child care providers, non-profits, public agencies, school districts, etc. – dedicated to improving the wellbeing of children, families, and communities acrossWashington state. In 2022, the Washington State Department of Health enlisted WCFC in its Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems…
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wellconnected’s allco platform: building community in New York and beyond
[Welcome to Stephen Butzler, Community Engagement Lead for wellconnected, who is joining us on the blog today to share insights about their work in partnership with 2-1-1 providers in New York state and beyond. Hi Steve!] On behalf of wellconnected, I’m excited to introduce the allco platform and our vision for Community Information Exchange in…
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Introducing the Whatcom County Resource Information Collaborative
This post is brought to us by Kristi Slette, Secretariat of the Whatcom Resource Information Collaborative in Washington state. Welcome, Kristi! Washington state’s Whatcom County – the north western most county in continental U.S. – is a resourceful community with many collaborative community-based organizations that serve residents in need. For many years, the leadership and…
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Resource Directory Search Engine To Go – with Connect 211
This post brought to you by Skyler Young of Connect 211. Welcome, Skyler! This is the story of how a 211 call center teamed up with a local software team to create a modern search engine for community resources, and how they are making it available to other 211s and partners all over the world.…
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Innovating Around the Intervention: Activate Care’s Coordination Tools, Powered by Open Referral
[Welcome to Jonathan Abbett, VP of User Experience at Activate Care!] Imagine if our healthcare and social service systems were able to seamlessly coordinate care around all of our physical, behavioral, and social health needs. Back in 2012, inspired by this vision, I joined a technology start-up that is now known as Activate Care. I…
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Presenting ORServices 3.0: a Complete Laravel-based Open Referral Directory Solution
I’m happy to announce that Sarapis is releasing a Laravel-based Open Referral Directory Solution (ORServices) as open source code! This software enables anyone to create their own community resource directory information system — with a level of design and functionality that is comparable to proprietary resource directory software systems that are available on the market.…