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Concept Map
This team came together at the Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline Hackathon hosted by Team Child. The goal of the hackathon was to build solutions to help keep at-risk youth out of the juvenile justice system and in school so they can have a chance to build a better future. It was a collaborative hackathon where affected youth, law students, lawyers, legal service providers, coders, and designers came together to create solutions for underserved children in the greater Seattle community.
The team collaborated with two representatives, also known as Community Ambassadors, from the Beyond 180 program. Beyond 180 is an extension off of the 180 program which works in partnership with the King County Prosecuting Attorney Office to keep at-risk youth out of the juvenile justice system. The program consists of two elements: the 180 half-day workshop and the Beyond 180 follow-up aftercare.
Upon successful completion of the half-day workshop, participating youth are granted the oppurtunity to have the related charge(s) dropped from their record so they can stay in school and be given a second chance to make better choices in the pursuit to a better lifestyle. At the end of each workshop, they are given a form to fill out for their Beyond 180 follow-up care where they have the option to specify any services/resources they need help getting access to as well as the option to voluntarily sign up to be paired with a community ambassador.
The community ambassadors are the heart and soul of Beyond 180 and work hard to get access to the services/resources each youth may need as well as establish a trustworthy and meaningful personal relationship so that they can have a dependable support system.
Beyond 180 did not have an efficient and sustainable system for storing and managing youth documentation. Their current method was through the use of physical pieces of documentation and Google Sheets which proved to be ineffective and inefficient. This resulted in limited access and restricted outreach which was hindering the programs full potential to be an effective long-term mentorship.
As a solution to the problem, our team, which consists of 2 developers and 3 designers, collaborated with the community ambassadors to build a Beyond 180 database. We created an API that wraps a relational database and allows authorization for both community ambassadors and registered youth clients. Some of the main features include personal information for each client, additional services/resources they need access to, the best method of contact, the amount of days since the last contact, as well as the ability to create events and send them out to each youth.
The backend was taken care of over the course of the weekend-long hackathon and the frontend is a working progress. The team is continuing to work together and collaborate with Beyond 180 to build a solid, scalable, and clean application that will better the services that they can provide.
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