This FormFest profile highlights how the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration redesigned its complaint submission form using empathy, human-centered design, and trauma-informed research methods to make the process more accessible, compassionate, and secure for all users.
This FormFest profile spotlights the New Jersey State Office of Innovation’s Feedback Widget team, which collects resident input across state websites to improve services and empower agencies to act on real-time feedback.
This FormFest profile explores how Philadelphia leveraged cross-department data sharing to launch its Zero Fare program, auto-enrolling eligible residents in unlimited transit benefits while tackling the challenge of outreach and trust-building to deliver passes effectively.
The Othering & Belonging Institute offers insight into research processes. The article is a part of the Institute's Transformative Research Toolkit, which focuses on centering lived experiences, valuing diverse ways of knowing, and influencing narratives and policies.
This report explores how public benefit systems can better support young adults by addressing the barriers they face in accessing and maintaining vital services like SNAP, Medicaid, and WIC.
Articles and resources from the Resident Engagement section of the City Tech's Civic User Testing group (CUTgroup) website. CUTgroup was a 1,600+ member civic engagement program that invited Chicago residents to contribute to emerging technology while providing public, private, and social sector partners with feedback to improve product design and deployment.
A case study of the Hawai‘i Career Acceleration Navigator — an accessible, data-driven and full-service government platform for unemployed people and other jobseekers to search for jobs and access supportive service benefits.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) report highlights the disproportionate hardships faced by Black and Latina mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbated by systemic inequities.
To kick off the Digital Service Network’s (DSN) summer event series, Let’s Get Digital, the DSN heard from the State of Arizona on their efforts to transform government services through a strong collaboration between information technology (IT) and digital service functions.