Accountability, Development and Social Services

4 ways AWS can help states transform healthcare for incarcerated individuals

AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 9, 2024

To tackle the fragmentation of healthcare services, the new CMS guidance promotes improved care coordination. Through integrated medical, behavioral, and social services, incarcerated individuals can receive more comprehensive care that better addresses their needs.

Supervision

Supervision Coordinator Public Sector Local Government

How city governments can navigate the fiscal cliff

American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

The fiscal cliff can lead to a range of negative outcomes that diminish community quality of life, strain household finances and stifle economic growth, including: Reduced services: Local governments may be forced to cut essential services, including public safety, education, transportation and social services.

Government

Government Budgeting Public Sector Sustainability

Data-Driven Decision-Making Gets Real

GovLoop

JANUARY 13, 2023

Taka Ariga, the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Chief Data Scientist and Director of its Innovation Lab, has many thoughts on these topics. For example, a person must understand a dataset in order to develop a narrative around it that makes the information more digestible to a broader audience. “If Data silos are a problem.

Accountability

Accountability Social Services Government Leadership

CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)? SHOWNOTES: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA.

Community Development

Community Development Development Accountability Nonprofit

How Do You Know You Can Trust AI?

GovLoop

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Imagine someone inventing a new high-powered car and putting it on the road before developing an adequate braking system. AI labs are “locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one — not even their creators — can understand, predict, or reliably control,” the letter states.

Translation

Translation Social Services Constituents Accountability

Why Heirs’ Property is a Problem for Vacancy and Abandonment

Center for Community Progress

JULY 22, 2024

Speculators and developers can exploit vulnerable or disinterested heirs to gain an interest in the property and force property sales through a “partition” action, often acquiring the property for a fraction of its value and depriving families of both property and wealth associated with the land.

Local Government

Local Government Laws Supervision Education

Student Corner: The Role of Technology in CED Service Delivery – Help or Hindrance? The Example of SNAP Benefit Enrollment

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 10, 2022

There is no question technology has improved the ability of Community and Economic Development (CED) professionals to provide services. SNAP is an essential component of American social services, helping low-income individuals and families access nutritious food.

Social Services

Social Services Economic Development Public Administration Transportation

NC SHIP Community Council: Improving Health and Wellness in the State of North Carolina

Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 15, 2024

They develop action plans to move forward toward their identified priorities. We have people with healthcare, social services, and government backgrounds, so multiple different languages are being used. RBA has taught us to be intentional and speak the same language. Folks keep the NC SHIP on their desks.

Housing

Housing Public Health Implementation Social Services

20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

Transportation

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning

After the Storm: Summary Ejectment and Assistance Programs in North Carolina

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Typically, the security deposit is not addressed in actions for summary ejectment because the landlord (or their agent) has usually not had a chance to inspect the rental property for damages and deliver an accounting to the tenant prior to the summary ejectment hearing. Unfair or Deceptive Practice Act. Section 4B.7.

Housing

Housing Accountability Public Policy Security

Harry P. Hatry, Leader and Performance Management Pioneer, dies at 92

Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Staats award for excellence in program evaluation in 1985; a National Public Service Award in 1993; and the “Evaluator of the Year” award from the Washington (D.C.) Upon his graduation with a BS in engineering from Yale University, Hatry began working for a General Electric research facility in Santa Barbara. Evaluators Association in 1996.

Management

Management Public Administration Parks And Recreation Public Policy

Orange County United Way uses Amazon Connect to optimize 2-1-1 community service

AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Serving hundreds of thousands of residents in all 34 cities of the region, Orange County United Way provides a wide range of vital community services throughout Orange County, California. That also means the service is an intermediary to many other organizations, all of which have their own data and processes.

Nonprofit

Nonprofit Government Agency Public Sector Operations

African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day