This piece is co-authored by Ash Roughani and Joel Riphagen, and has been cross-posted from TechWire magazine.
When the California Health Care Foundation launched the California Health Data Project last spring, it made a smart decision to create a new role in the civic innovation space. The foundation brought on California Health Data Ambassadors to connect the supply side of the open data equation, in this case the California Health and Human Services Agency’s (CHHSA’s) open data portal — to the demand side of the equation — or potential users of that portal…. Continue reading
Introducing Link-SF to the Open Referral ecosystem
[Welcome to Rose Trujillo of Zendesk! This is cross-posted from Zendesk’s Zengineering Blog.]
We’re happy to announce that Link-SF will be a part of Open Referral’s San Francisco pilot project!
What is Link-SF?
St. Anthony’s Tenderloin Technology Lab serves many low-income San Francisco residents that are looking for web access. Continue reading
San Francisco’s Open Referral: Getting out and Staying out
Every other year, the Reentry Council of San Francisco publishes Getting Out and Staying Out, a resource guide for people returning from prison and looking for help to get back on their feet. The Guide is more than 300 pages long, containing rich information about hundreds of health, human, and social services that are available to homecoming residents.
The Guide is distributed through the Reentry Council’s institutional network of courts, prisons, family support services, and beyond. It’s also available on their website as a PDF.
The Reentry Council estimates that it invests at least one month of staff time each year into the Guide’s production (through a combination of surveys, web research, and phone calls). Since 2007, they’ve managed the Guide’s content entirely within Microsoft Word. Continue reading