NYC Services Guide

Inspiration

I used to work for the Brooklyn Public Library Community Health team and also the Home Internet Access Program (now called the Neighborhood Tech Help). When one of the social workers left the team, I briefly worked on the social work team and helped refer library patrons to resources in the neighborhood that would address their needs. I started to compile these resources into a document but because I was working out of many different branches, it was hard to identify which resources were available specifically in that neighborhood.

What it does

Provides NYC residents with a map-based directory of available resources

How we built it

Google AI Studio

Challenges we ran into

Quality and availability of data

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I have always wanted to build an app and this was a great learning experience.

What we learned

How to use Google AI and Github.

What's next for NYC Services Guide

It would be useful to add more resources and services as well as being able to a provide a consolidated calendar view of community events/workshops, such as specific job training or tech classes, workshops on how to sign up for Housing Connect or other social services enrollment events and upcoming food distribution events.

Built With

• google