App for Good

Housing and Homelessness

Expand existing project, program, or initiative

Some of the key issues facing those experiencing homelessness is not only access to resources but how to locate them, how to sign up for access to them, and understanding the restrictions and our policies of those resources being offered to them. Specifically a key example to this is the lack of Valid Identification for those in need, leading to restrictions in access to housing, shelter, and in many cases medical services. Local, County and State resource centers face vast over crowding and inability to properly manage and monitor resources availability, much less the man-power to walk through with each resource seeker the proper means and methods of seeking and securing access to those services.

Through CalCyber.org's App for Good, users will now be able to locate by service and location the critical resources that they are in search of, ranging but not limited to Shelter, Food, Medical, to Mental Health. Users will be able to review resource availability, restrictions, and complete walk through guides in how to schedule and reserve access to resources directly from any mobile device. CalCyber's App for Good will provide local updates of ongoing programs to local communities based on their locations and the location of available resources and those in need.

Through the innovative use of technology to provide fast and convenient identification of, access to, and instructions in use of resources so many in our community are in need of, CalCyber.org's App for Good will put at the fingertips of any and all members within our communities, specifically those who need it most, the information they need to get the help they so desperately deserve. The utilization of Smart Devices such as smart phones, places access to information in the hands of everyone, through a convenient and common medium in which are available at no cost to members in the community. Vast overpopulation of those living in the streets will now have the ability to see availability at resource centers lowering overpopulation and spreading out the ability of these centers utilization, increasing success rates and efficiency of services delivered. Through the use of self-service technology, users will be able to locate and identify the services and resources on demand.

CalCyber.org's App for Good's impact and usage metrics can be identified and measured through metric table and usage analysis built in to the application source coding and tracked from the central management repository. Impact can also be tracked through successful scheduling and reporting by resources centers and community outreach. Furthermore, impact will be measured by the observance of lower homeless populations present throughout our communities.

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