"Community Connect" is a health resource web application that aims to consolidate information about businesses and organization available in communities that promote healthy lifestyle choices. A health resource is defined as services or materials that improve the quality of life of others, ranging from affordable child care, substance abuse counseling, domestic violence support, and more. We are working in conjunction with Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Community Health Improvement, MGH Revere HealthCare Center, and Revere CARES Coalition to create an extensive database in our pilot region of Revere, Chelsea, Charlestown, and eventually the Greater Boston Area.
Want to see what Community Connect is all about? Check out our live site for Revere at ccfor.me/revere
. To manage resources, enter the 'admin' view by adding /admin
to the end of the URL, such as ccfor.me/revere/admin
.
yarn
yarn start
localhost:3000
in your browser to see it running! 🎉You can use a custom Google Sheet with your local installation of Community Connect. You might want to do this for testing or development purposes. Prefer to see a gif of this process instead of reading steps? Click here
Thank you for your willingness to help out! To get started on helping build Community Connect, take a look at our contribution guide.
Join our Code for Boston Slack channel: #community-connect or look for us at the Code for Boston Tuesday meet-ups.
The original architectural design for this app was designed proven out by Bob Breznak for an organization assisting with the refugee crisis in Greece in 2016, Prosper. They needed help consolidating, vetting and displaying resources on the web. In May 2018 he re-wrote the frontend in react.js to create an app that assists homeless people Seeking Shelter and resources. In August 2018 Code for Boston’s Community Connect project had similar aims and the repo was moved into their org. The data used for this project was initially collected from Nevil Desai during his internship with Revere CARES, a coalition group under the umbrella of MGH Center for Community Health Improvement.