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Building Homes on Faith-Based Owned Land: State-led Approaches to Increasing Housing Supply

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) have long provided essential social services, and their role has become even more important in recent years as homelessness, food insecurity, and other needs have grown.

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Reimagining government social services in the COVID-19 era

Google Public Sector

States have seen a rising volume of new unemployment requests, and other social services systems are being stressed like never before. At the same time, more state employees have transitioned to working from home and providing their services remotely. It’s no secret that state governments in the U.S.

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4 ways AWS can help states transform healthcare for incarcerated individuals

AWS Public Sector Blog

While the new CMS policy is a positive step toward breaking the recidivism cycle, implementation is not straightforward—especially given compliance issues and the siloed nature of both government agencies and recordkeeping. To tackle the fragmentation of healthcare services, the new CMS guidance promotes improved care coordination.

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Simplified CCAI virtual agent management for business users

Google Public Sector

Change tracking can be implemented to keep track of changes over time, to allow for auditing and reverts as needed. Additional data sources, like CloudSQL or Google Sheets , can be leveraged to implement the functionality, such as tables for intent/role mappings or change tracking.

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How city governments can navigate the fiscal cliff

American City & Country

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.

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UC Davis, VALID AI and Google Cloud collaborate to overcome SDOH Challenges with generative AI

Google Public Sector

Visibility into housing information would allow providers to partner with social services to offer targeted support such as emergency housing, rental support, and/or permanent housing. Housing : A patient’s housing status - either without housing or inconsistent housing (housing insecure) - ,can impact health outcomes significantly.

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Modernize Without Losing Your Legacy

GovLoop

“Digitizing services that governments provide can be a time and efficiency improvement,” said Chris Oskuie, Vice President, State and Local Government and Education at Software AG Government Solutions, which provides platform integration software and services. Innovations such as iPaaS — integration platform as a service — can help.