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3 Opportunities to Elevate the Citizen Experience

State Tech Magazine

In South Carolina, for instance, the Department of Social Services has dramatically expedited SNAP application processing timeliness by deploying a cloud-based contact center solution. Often, the contact center acts as the front line, where citizens and government employees interact directly.

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

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

to the Department of Health and Human Services to be allocated to county departments of social services to provide rental assistance to individuals who reside temporarily or permanently in the affected counties and who meet certain income requirements. Section 4B.7. Rental Assistance” appropriated $1,000,000.00

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Costly failures in the mental health system | Chicago Sun-Times

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It also would require supporting mechanisms that largely dont exist, like providing housing for homeless people who have severe mental illness so they can be reached by medical and social service providers. If the person who doesnt get decent services commits a crime, now we have a crime victim, and thats a cost, he says.

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Community safety partnership for MacArthur Park in Los Angeles?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

On Thursday, Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, who believes too much money is spent on law enforcement and not enough on social services, held a news conference in MacArthur Park to announce several partnerships and social service initiatives. The need for police + social services = community safety partnership.

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How AI Can Unlock Insights From Documents, Video and Other Content

GovLoop

The challenge is unlocking those insights and making them accessible across the organization.

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Singapore’s NHG Cares App uses AWS to support a healthier population

AWS Public Sector Blog

They can even connect residents to a social service agency or an active aging center near their homes. The integrated health and social care support provided to the residents helps them to stay on top of their health goals and potentially prevent chronic conditions.