Care Compass

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🧠 Inspiration

It can be difficult to connect New Yorkers struggling with housing insecurity and health care accessibility to resources. Whether one is a recent immigrant experiencing a language barrier, or a single parent working multiple jobs to make ends meet, at-risk individuals face unique challenges to self-advocacy. Knowing exactly where to find help specific to their situation is the first step to acquiring that support. Care Compass allows users to avoid the burden of expending their limited time and energy searching for services and instead swiftly and succinctly delivers it to them.

💡 What it does

Care Compass is a personalized, multilingual web app that helps NYC immigrants and low-income residents find nearby healthcare, housing, and food support they’re actually eligible for.
Through a short guided screening, users receive tailored resources, know their rights, and get connected to help—fast.

🛠 How we built it

We rapidly prototyped and iterated using Vercel’s v0 platform. Despite its low-code nature, we dove deep into the generated code, refining components, connecting to Supabase, and building a dynamic user flow that feels seamless and empowering.

🚧 Challenges we ran into

While brainstorming ideas for our project we needed to spend most of our time thinking of the most efficient way to streamline getting resource information to individuals in need, particularly in NYC. We had some trouble narrowing down our ideas for our intended demographic and what that demographic might be looking for in a technology intended to help them.