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Case Study for the Child Welfare Study to Enhance Equity with Data (CW-SEED): Michigan
This case study examines how Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services uses data practices to advance racial equity in child welfare through identity-informed data collection and anonymous decision-making.
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As Pandemic-Era Policies End, Medicaid Programs Focus on Enrollee Access and Reducing Health Disparities Amid Future Uncertainties: Results from an Annual Medicaid Budget Survey for State Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025
This report outlines state Medicaid program priorities, including expanding access to services, addressing health disparities, and implementing cost-containment measures amid post-pandemic uncertainties.
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Equitable Affordable Housing in the Digital Age: 8 Ingredients for Leveraging Technology for Access
This report provides guidance on building equitable and user-friendly affordable housing portals, highlighting best practices from platforms like Bloom Housing and Housing Navigator MA.
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How to determine whether AI is an appropriate solution for public sector challenges
This toolkit provides a checklist of items to help determine whether AI-powered tools are appropriate for specific use cases in the public sector.
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Prioritizing Access and Safety Q&A on Service Design in Digital Identity
The Digital Benefit Network's Digital Identity Community of Practice held a session to hear considerations from civil rights technologists and human-centered design practitioners on ways to ensure program security while simultaneously promoting equity, enabling accessibility, and minimizing bias.
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Scaling Form Improvements in State Government
This session from FormFest 2024 features Arizona’s form improvement capacity building initiative and Massachusetts’ form improvements that were a result of the Delivering a Digital-First Public Experience act.
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Education Forms From Preschool to College
This session from FormFest 2024 features the South Carolina Early Childhood Advisory Council’s work developing a single portal to integrate applications for publicly funded programs and services, and the office of Federal Student Aid’s work on the FAFSA form.
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Scaling Out Government Assistance
This session from FormFest 2024 focused on how to help people get the assistance they need from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ work on the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and the Maryland Social Services Administration’s work to improve welfare support for kinship caregivers.
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Improving Digital Service Design
This session from FormFest 2024 focused on improving service delivery by hearing about work in multiple cities to rapidly digitize service delivery and work by the Department of Veteran Affairs around implementing service design principles in form revisions.
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All Things Artificial Intelligence
This session from FormFest 2024 walked attendees through some of the major changes AI is bringing to form design. Learn about the National Head Start Association’s use of AI to reduce administrative burden and the Canadian Digital Service’s tips for protecting government applications systems from AI.
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Reducing Form Burden at the Federal Level
This session from FormFest 2024 featured the Department of Homeland Security and the United States Digital Service talking about their work to reduce form burdens for internal and external users.
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AI-Ready: An Evaluation Guide for Health and Human Services Agencies
This is a practical tool designed to help government agencies make informed, responsible decisions about adopting AI technologies.