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Help on the Way (H.O.W.) is aimed at veterans who are going through the Veterans Treatment Court system. The goal of H.O.W. is to provide a group support system for those individuals. Veterans can create and join groups where they can chat with other veterans to help keep them accountable to adhering to the court's rigid guidelines.

We are implementing a group chat feature that will immediately notify all other members of the group via email if the poster marks the message as urgent in case they need urgent help.

We will also have an educational component of the app, and in the long term would love to connect the app to social workers and legal representatives who can use the app as a check-in system.

A chat bot that fills out protective orders quickly and efficiently (in Harris County, TX but since this is virtual we can work on it anywhere honestly), so that the user can take the form and present to the courthouse without help from a lawyer. Anyone can come onto the site and have a conversation.

This is my personal project (@christyleos), and fyi I am a tech noob.

This is where you'll find my resources, inspiration, and how tos.

I am currently using the Pandorabots Playground. If anyone is interested in working with me, I'll make it public for ya'll.

Roles this project would benefit from:

• UX/UI Designer to make sure the web page is simple
• Domestic violence subject matter expert and/or legal aid SME
• Project Manager to coordinate tasks and create presentation
• Researcher who will find out what the current tech is
• Someone who has worked on a chatbot before, used AIML language

I looked for a project that allowed me to use the technology I'm familiar with, but I did not see a good fit (even though they were all great projects)! !

The goal of this app would be to build a user-friendly resource/tool for veterans who want to A) go to/ return to higher ed or training programs and/or B) find a job.

Description:
If the veteran wants to go back to school, the veteran can fill out some basic questions and tells them quick benefits based on their state and other factors (pre/post 9/11 GI Bill, etc.). If the veteran wants to find a job, there will be a space to fill out contact info along with a space to describe their work in the military. Upon submission, this information can be emailed to a community resource center based on location and a legal aid will then have quick access to this information to contact the veteran directly. This would also be a good resource for veterans in areas with limited access to veteran resources or who have a disability but want to do online classes, etc.

A more elaborate gameplan and example app will be uploaded soon!

If anyone is familiar with Neota Logic they can help on the development end.
ESPECIALLY need folks that are knowledgeable about veteran edu benefits or who know the contact info for community organizations that help veterans in different parts of the country (will probably start with 5 states and go from there) I also need folks to test the app (once I have a usable version)!

It would also be really cool if we could find a company that sells Skills surveys to allow veterans to use for free alongside the app that sends a copy to the community partners.

Josh Waddell
[email protected]

Create a interactive tool for veterans who are transitioning or already have transitioned out of the military. This tool should help users plan:

• finances
• home/residence
• education
• training
• employment
• benefits
• mental health upkeep

Possible road maps to follow:

• The Veterans Transition Map & Action Plan by Purple Star
• Prepare for Transition by Warrior Care and Transition
• Individual Transition Planning by Military.com

By helping vets with these areas, we could prevent hardships that can lead to more debilitating problems, such as homelessness, suicide, and violence.

The VA's TAP program ( Transition Goals, Plans, Success program—known as Transition GPS) is the current solution and was developed by the Department of Defense in coordination with the Department of Veteran Affairs. The program provides comprehensive services to service members to transition to work, life, and home after the military. However, after speaking to the focus group who have developed the problem set for the Veteran's hackathon, it isn't incredibly helpful.

@jakierice @JeffL-T your thoughts?

Guide Change was created to help institutions and caregivers save time, stress and money by optimizing guardianship and supported decision making reporting and data management.

Guide Change is currently looking for free beta users and advisers to provide additional feedback so that Guide Change can provide as much benefit as possible.

Follow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Guide_Change

Historically the public sector is not good at building apps. The public sector needs to publish APIs which allow the private sector to build apps that can access justice data. e.g. counsel and parties should have a mobile app they can be used to be notified about the court schedule and when they are due in court. The scheduling data should be available via a published API allowing private sector to build the app.

Roles this project would benefit from:

• Someone who loves to work with data
• Someone with experience coding a mobile app
• A court subject matter expert
• Project Manager to coordinate tasks and create presentation
• Researcher who will find out what the current tech is

Mental health disorders and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) can lead to poor outcomes for veterans and their communities. Veterans Treatment Courts recognize and address needs that are often unique to veterans, but do not currently include VA health coaches. VTCs currently integrate VA health care, such as scheduling treatment or accessing medical records, by veterans justice outreach (VJO) specialists sitting in the courtroom with the veteran, a program mentor, and the judge. However, an opportunity exists to integrate VA health care into VTCs. A VA health coach from the Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation (OPCC&CT), would better support the justice invlolved veteran as part of the VA’s holistic approach to healthcare initiative.

For example, when a new law passes that provides a new redress for those with criminal records.

Roles this project would benefit from:

• Someone who loves data
• Legal aid subject matter expert who knows how they get this info in the first place
• Project Manager to coordinate tasks and create presentation
• Researcher who will find out what the current tech is
• Someone who has worked on text message tech before

The US Dept of Veteran Affairs provides a no-cost online will preparation service for beneficiaries of certain servicemember and veterans group life insurance plans in order “to quickly and easily prepare a will without an attorney. After answering a series of straightforward questions, the beneficiary will receive a legal will, valid in all states, ready to print and sign.”

The service is handled by FinancialPointPlus.com, and requires an 8-digit insurance claim number to access the service. However, claim numbers are not issued until the servicemember or veteran dies. Effectively, the veteran’s death unlocks the VA benefit for their beneficiaries upon death, but the benefit is not available for veterans themselves, nor their beneficiaries while the veterans are living.

Prudential, who is behind the financial Point Plus.com, confirmed that the benefit is available for beneficiaries after the veterans death, but the benefit is not available to service members or veterans.

VA link: http://www.benefits.va.gov/insurance/bfcs.asp

We are hoping to build an app that will hopefully become popular in the military community. The app allows low-level leaders to do monthly counseling reports and send reports to the individual soldier, who reads, accepts, signs and sends back to supervisor. App works for vets who are having a PTSD meltdown, bad dream, feeling suicidal, they can press the app, and select the panic button.

The app can have Facebook like features, friend, likes, shares...desktop and mobile abilities. The app has a triage function.. vet comes on line, speaks to another vet who listens and helps to direct traffic. Site can be initiated by vet or vets battle buddy or spouse, friend, anyone. Example.. Wife and soldier has been having martial problems, soldier comes home from duty, gets drunk. Wife has called police on many occasions.. if she calls again, he will be demoted and the family will lose income.. so wife doesn't want to get the military involved.... she is sick and tired, and she wants to leave him while he is deployed and when he gets home, they will be gone. So she is reaching out for 1 final time.. she hits the panic button.. speaks to a veteran rep, , he/she will coordinate mediation by setting up all the parties.

App is friendly, military buddies can chat, find each other, entire platoons can use the app ao pass unit level information -non-secure info to each other, community message boards etc. PTSD meltdown, soldier is having a bad dream, is suicidal, they do not need to get their phone, get their wallet, or try to figure out how to call the VA. They log into Brav app, press panic button and another experienced vet says .. hey dude.. relax.. you're home everything is all right.. just relax, breathe.. you are safe.

Help create a social platform connecting disabled vets and veterans disability experts and which gives vets access to access tools that help demystify the veterans disability benefits application process.

An app that is free and provides geo-targeted information on how local officials voted and what propositions are coming up would help empower people to know how their local politicians are voting and whether to vote them out.

Roles this project would benefit from:

• UX/UI Designer to make sure the platform has a simple and easy interface
• App developer
• Local government subject matter expert or someone who knows the voting arena
• Project Manager to coordinate tasks and create presentation
• Researcher who will find out what the current tech is

Develop pre-hearing ODR services ahead of Veterans Treatment Court dockets (VTC's are hybrid drug/mental health/VA-partnership courts), to help reduce case load on issues such as victim-criminal mediation, misdemeanor offenses, and similar, that we will offer online, or perhaps via a telepresence model, and to include the same psychological and SA support services for vets that would typically be available in an onsite VTC, such as MH counseling, mentor-type help navigating the VTC process, and the utilization of pioneering risk/needs/assessments tools.

Next steps:

• Determine the need and verify the facts
• Create a working demo
• Build a marketing strategy and campaign for getting this into motion

Vets have a disproportionate rate of suicide and homicide. Here is an article. War Is Hell, and the Hell Rubs Off PTSD contributes to violence. Pretending it doesn’t is no way to support the troops. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/04/ptsd_and_violence_by_veterans_increased_murder_rates_related_to_war_experience.html

This app will gain wide acceptance by troops because of user friendly and helpful applications that make their lives genuinely easier. When all hell breaks lose at home, they have access to mediation, support, suicide prevention, legal assistance, It's a hip cool app vets can text, email, chat, file share, Supervisors can do their monthly counseling reports and sent via this app. Soldier can read, accept, and esign and resubmit. Vet can request leave, chat with members of squad, read unit message boards, etc.

Automating the point-in-time count process (develop a prototype that could be used for homeless Veterans count next year...scaleable to cover entire county populations in following years).
Include not only the items required for the PIT; but have readily available housing and social service solutions for the surveyed Veterans.

"In the past, HUD provided access to a free mobile PIT application (app). This mobile PIT app is no longer available. However, HUD anticipates publishing the open source code to the app for communities that wish to use that in their discussions to determine whether to adopt mobile technology as part of their PIT counts. HUD also plans on publishing a summary of lessons learned from the PIT mobile app for communities to use. HUD has kept the webinar with the PIT survey tools and the mobile app overview available for communities to review."

The following resources are available at https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/3322/point-in-time-survey-tools/

Model Sheltered Night of Count PIT Survey (PDF)
Model Observation-based Unsheltered Night of Count PIT Survey (PDF)
Model Interview-based Unsheltered Night of the Count PIT Survey (PDF)
Model Service-based PIT Survey (PDF)
HUD Point-in-Time Survey Tools and Mobile App Overview Webinar (HTML)
PIT Count Youth Survey - Comprehensive (PDF)
PIT Count Youth Survey - Addendum (PDF)"

Legal aid staff have to understand hundreds of variables across dozens of funding grants to match a potential legal aid client with a grant. We need expert systems to match clients with grants based on client needs and grant attributes. We need consistent community-driven data standards so that grant attribute data can be shared. This project is a continuation of work done during the Virtual Justice Hackathon.

Presentation
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White Paper

David Awad is putting together a database of the current code of every single state and the federal government so that we can track the changes in every law all the time. He has a way to now download the state codes from almost all of the states over multiple years. https://github.com/davidawad/statedb

He's also writing a special scraper to go through a few websites to create a JSON structured database of the state laws of multiple states.

Needs:

• Help with getting the spider run on more of these states. Right now it will take a long time for him to run the script himself for all the different states; here's a sample file for Alabama's state codes from last year. https://github.com/davidawad/statedb/blob/master/alabama_2017_partial.json?raw=true
• Access to a powerful computer for a week or two to just run 50 processes for a little while

The hope here is that pretty soon people will be able to access a real database with all of the state laws and be able to do meaningful comparisons and data analysis. A programmer friendly dataset of all the state laws has never really existed before.

Sensitive data is often transferred over the course of a VTC between vets, attorneys, courts, and the VA. Veterans have tended to be unguarded with sensitive info such as SSNs, which may be because they were once used openly and widely, and were being printed on ID cards as recently as 2009. VTCs have stated they need a quick and secure way for Veterans to send/receive info, such as changes to court dockets.

Next steps:

• Determine the need and verify the facts
• Find VTC partners who will potentially use the software
• Create a working demo

Our goal is to offer a web application that offers a log-in for veterans where they can input their income or per-session payment cap. Mental health professionals can log-in and input the price range they're willing to work with.

We can connect the two together and offer a map of mental health professionals displayed to veterans that fit their price criteria.

Help expose the corruption of public servants/law enforcement.

Perhaps a way to help share media outside of main stream channels that have been reported as blocking out such media in situations such as the ND pipeline protests. Perhaps some way to circumvent such a blockade.

Another idea would be a way to share live feeds of these events, unedited and uncensored so that people can see the situation for themselves without questioning if it is edited or fake... real situations in real time.

Bring attention to how many minority youth are being incarcerated for minor crimes. Provide more transparency into that process by turning public data sets into an interface that can be queried and visualized.

Also like to add real-world calls to action like VotePlz has done.

Roles this project would benefit from:

• Marketing person who can draw up a campaign
• Data person who wants to work on the public data, a plus if they know how to vizualize
• Juvenile incarceration subject matter expert
• Project Manager to coordinate tasks and create presentation
• Researcher who will find out what the current tech is

Online Dispute Resolution platform for family disputes (child custody, contact, maintenance, etc) for active duty and vets, or maybe specifically with an international focus on service members and vets who are separated from their families (e.g. soldiers deployed overseas while undergoing divorce / those vets who remain overseas as DoD civilians and ex-pats / troops and vets who maintain families abroad).

Next steps:

• Determine the need and verify the facts
• Create a working demo
• Build a marketing strategy and campaign for getting this in the hands of those working with veterans

MST is underreported due to stigma, myths and feelings of helplessness. It is a particular problem with female homeless veterans, with 75 percent being identified as victims of MST. These women have greater incidents of PTSD than other female combat veterans and are less likely to get help. The number of female homeless veterans doubled during the first decade of Operation Enduring Freedom.

There are many efforts among agencies, to promote prevention, response and screening for MST. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) views MST as “an experience” rather than a “diagnosis” and offer free treatment of medical conditions resulting from MST, regardless of service-connection, for those victims who come forward. Also, virtual reality is being used to treat MST victims.

The BIG IDEA is that an online interactive processes could allow the veteran to anonymously explore reporting options, case reception, validity, targeted resources, obtain counselling, join support groups, build confidence and consider the pros/cons of moving past anonymity to unrestricted reporting.

Project: Develop a mobile app to display random tweets from a list of twitter accounts related to mental health.
Problem: Mental health for Veterans

This app will help give Veterans access to tweets that will help them improve their mental health. Tweets may include tips and strategies to improve mental health as well as news pertaining to mental health.

“Develop a process for appealing clinical decisions that provides veterans protections at least comparable to those afforded patients under other federally-supported programs” - Commission on Care Final Report.

Current Solution: The commission found that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) clinical appeals process lacks a defined process for the veteran to have their case heard in person, provisions for an expedited review and a right to an external review. In October 2016, VHA directive 1041 encouraged “mediation” as the first level of a clinical decision appeal, but no other guidance exist as to implementation. This, and a later “submission of supporting arguments” are veterans’ only opportunities to be heard in the 4-stage process.

There is a need for a mediation process for patients and their treatment teams, that supports an expedited review, and promotes a mutual interest path to an external review when needed. An online process would save travel time for veterans living far from VHA facilities and potentially save time for VHA staff. An asynchronous process would allow time for thoughtful and deliberate communication, and likely be more conducive to clinical staff schedules.

The BIG IDEA is an online mediation process for patients and their treatment teams, that supports an expedited review, and promotes a mutual interest path to an external review when needed.  

dvServe
When orders of protection are granted by the court the sheriff's office only goes out to serve them once between 9-5 when the recipient (i.e. abuser) is in their geographic jurisdiction. This results in orders of protection not being served and therefore not being enforceable. That results in the domestic violence and/or stalking victim having to take more time off work and get childcare in order to continue going to court to continue the order - causing more harm to someone who is already a victim.

Solution: Get orders of protection served by people more dedicated to the process than the sheriff's office is.

For more information about dvServe, such as legal components, implementation, and technical details click here

To collaborate, visit Github Repo

The demographics in Illinois have shifted considerably. 1 in 5 Chicagoans are now limited English proficient. We live in a multicultural country, multicultural state and we are more diverse than ever. This has caused agencies, stakeholders and providers to shift the work.

In My Language is a tool for limited English survivors as well as their advocates to access resources. Users start by selecting the language they want to use. The first page has a map of DV agencies, Courts and Police offices located within Chicago. The site also has sections that explain DV terms, the OP Process, the access to an interpreter and offer safety advice.

To collaborate and contribute, visit the github repo

Visit the current website at http://inmylanguage.us/

A chatbot that can make it easy to access and understand veterans resources, such as ones found on va.gov and other support websites. This could be done via facebook, or for the website itself, and would answer questions that don't necessarily need human help, but guidance with a human feel to it.

Perhaps we need to narrow down the scope - addressing all the issues a veterans can face is a bit much for a hackathon.

The chatbot design playbook might be helpful.

Buoy is a free and open source technology for connecting users with friends and allies in times of need. It exists to empower you and your communities with a decentralized, customized, alternative crisis response system that does not rely on intervention by the police, other government services, or corporations.

To contribute and use, visit https://github.com/betterangels/buoy/wiki

Veteran Treatment Court (VTC) program model includes regular court appearances, treatment sessions, and drug testing with the support of an interdisciplinary team. The program connects veterans to a variety of resources, including employment services, and structured accountability to prevent them from reoffending. Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP) grantees can play a critical role in meeting the employment needs of these veterans.

There are 2 use cases that could be developed in conjunction with Veteran Treatment Courts using the Buoy tool (a free and open source technology for connecting users with friends and allies in times of need. ) ; one is for the community surrounding the homeless vets who are being helped by other vets/friends to make sure that they are meeting the requirements of the program that the VTC prescribes - this particular use is consistent with the 'neighborhood' feel for which Buoy was developed; the other - which would bring Buoy right into the VTC itself, would tie the various members of the staff of the VTC involved with a particular veteran's case, helping the veteran to monitor his/her progress under the program set up as well as to confirm whereabouts.

Step one: Fork Buoy
Step two: Start building features out

Undesirable Discharge Characterizations (general discharges and below) can block veterans from receiving valuable treatment and compensation benefits to which they would otherwise be entitled (e.g. PTSD treatment and compensation). Many discharge characterizations were based on performance issues that now warrant reconsideration as service-connected PTSD, in accordance with the “PTSD Upgrade Memo” from the Secretary of Defense in 2014. Between 9% and 21% of veterans may qualify for benefits such as service-connected disability treatment, related compensation, healthcare, and the option of pioneering Veterans Treatment Courts (VTC) as alternate routes to justice. Personal appearances are allowed at Discharge Review Boards (DRB), but the boards are held almost exclusively in Washington DC at the veteran's expense. An online hearing process would allow an opportunity for personal appearances by those veterans that find travel to the DRB cost-prohibitive.

2014/15 fiscal Data:
Honorable: 78.29 percent
General – Under Honorable Conditions: 6.36 percent
Under Other Than Honorable Conditions: 2.09 percent
Bad Conduct: 0.49 percent
Dishonorable: 0.07 percent
Total = 9%, or 21% when considering uncharacterized or unknown.

I'm looking for coders and ux/ui developers to help design phase 2 of the IGotEm app The basic concept is to capture crime incidence reported by the community. This information Will be posted on a google map during real time. Similar to the waze traffic app. If interested let's rock!

Shay

The DCFS process is complex and how one acts or does not act during the process can have major implications on whether or not their families stay together. The goal was to simplify the process with a visualization that can then be expanded to give individuals information on the pros, cons, options, and factors to consider at each stage of the process.

For more info about Navigating DCFS, click here
Github Repo

Models:
Denton County, TX veterans court process: Veterans Court Application Booklet.pdf

GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation model: https://www.samhsa.gov/gains-center

Housing and the Sequential Intercept Model: https://csgjusticecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Housing-and-the-Sequential-Intercept-Model.pdf

We can build a marketplace app linking pro bono and legal aid lawyers with filers of in forma pauperis and pro se civil complaints in the state and federal courts of all 50 states.

Roles this project would benefit from:

• UX/UI Designer to make sure the platform has a simple and easy interface
• Mobile app developer
• Legal aid subject matter expert
• Project Manager to coordinate tasks and create presentation
• Researcher who will find out what the current tech is

Veterans relate to this crisis in two ways. First, they fought and were wounded, physically and emotionally, in the conflicts that in part added to the refugee crisis. Second, they above all citizens have shown a commitment to service and to the maintenance of security for our own society.

If you put these two things together - a sense of connectedness to the crisis and a sense of duty - veterans would seem to be the ideal group to establish a system of identity for the displaced population.

Create an Estate PLanning Web Advisory for Veterans leading to recommendations for what estate planning documents that veteran needs for their protection and their families protection, plus a site that will enable the veteran to generate their estate planning documents for free.

Otter, a project that emerged from our ODR Hackathon,is a tool that enables students to resolve conflicts with peers and adults through Online Dispute Resolution & SEL Monitoring.

If you’re interested in trying out Otter or know someone else who might be, send them to https://otterkids.com/

Follow Otter on Twitter https://twitter.com/OtterKids

In Texas, many police officers use previous arrest records -- not convictions -- as a way of exercising their discretion over whether someone should be arrested. An arrest stays on your record, even if the charges are dropped or if you are found not guilty. The Texas Criminal Code contains a Right to Expunction.

I'd be interested in working with a team to:

• Determine the need and verify the facts
• Create a technology tool (inspiration: expunge.io)
• Build a marketing strategy and campaign for getting this in the hands of social workers and other people working with at-risk communities

Tough legal and financial decisions must be made when avoiding, or transitioning, into homelessness. Then, timely and relevant information to aid in accessing health care, food, shelter, weather warnings, donation distributions, mobile and similar community services.

Decisions regarding food, shelter, healthcare, financial obligations, benefits eligibility, storage, phone service, sanitation, and many other critical decisions are often made during times of crippling stress, and with no idea of how to function within a new unfamiliar reality. The vast array of resources can overwhelm and frustrate good decision making.

A need exists for an interactive tool for veterans that will aid decision making on which financial obligations to maintain, and which to let go, for the best possible outcome; to identify survival and other essential resources; and to screen for available veteran-specific assistance, such as debt relief organizations.

The BIG IDEA is an app to aid decision making, identify essential resources and find veteran-specific assistance before and during homelessness.

This is closely related to Text message updates for homeless veterans #26

Create SMS text messaging capability for homeless vets who want to know when and where resources are available. Since the need to connect to a crisis hotline and healthcare alerts are being covered y other groups (see below), it may be useful to focus on shelter, food, VA events, job fairs etc.

According to a Preliminary needs assessment of mobile technology use for healthcare among homeless veterans, homeless veterans use IT and welcome its use for health-related purposes. Technology-assisted outreach among this population may lead to improved engagement in care.

Currently, there are a few SMS messaging tools in place, such as:

• Veterans Text, a Veterans Crisis Line text-messaging service (text to 838255). Qualified VA responders are standing by to provide free and confidential support even if you’re not registered with VA or enrolled in VA health care.
• VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Text Message Appointment Reminders - The text message will include the appointment date, time and location, and if a Veteran has multiple appointments on the same day, the system will send a separate message for each appointment.
• Annie App for Veterans is a Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging capability that promotes self-care for Veterans enrolled in VA health care. When your provider or a member of your VA health care team signs you up for Annie for a health issue, you will receive automated messages that prompt you to track your own health. You are asked to reply to messages so that Annie can let you know how you are doing. Annie also can send you appointment reminders and messages from your local VA medical facility.

Pro bono online clearing house where vets submit a brief case outline and lawyers select their cases such as a VA, consumer, or family law issue. Or similar model to specifically support vets and surviving spouses who are engaging VA benefits and appeal processes.

Next steps:

• Determine the need and verify the facts
• Create a working demo
• Build a marketing strategy and campaign for getting this to lawyers and legal aid

A previous hackathon group was interested in a similar idea as well, see #11

Develop platform that generates filing documents (by mail or electronically) for a veteran to obtain their VA C-File used in determining service-connected injury compensation awards. A member’s C-File is a difficult record to obtain and often requires a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request or attorney assistance to do so. Technology can aid and simplify the C-File acquisition process.

Next steps:

• Determine the need and verify the facts
• Create a working demo
• Build a marketing strategy and campaign for getting this into motion

It's not a good thing for anyone when people return to prison - even ignoring the significant personal and social costs, it's just expensive for taxpayers. There are plenty of challenges for parolees, but also lots of resources that can help. Unfortunately, that help is incredibly hard to access.

For example, consider that even in the hotbed of technology, Silicon Valley, the way to find resources looks like a really awful phonebook with entries like this:

211- Santa Clara County
Phone:
No Address Provided
No City Provided, California 00000-0000
website: www.211.org

There's no description provided, and only very high level categorization ("Transportation Services" in this case). What's worse, even after Googling "parolee resources california", it takes at least 4 page transitions to even get to the list. Nothing here is mobile friendly - and this is for, arguably, the most technologically advanced region in the country.

For the Tech For Justice Hackathon, I'd like to work on a (free) Web, Android, and iOS app to reimagine the workflow of finding resources, consolidate geographically and technologically diverse datasets of resources, apply community curation and feedback, as well as privacy-safe geolocation to find relevant resources.