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.
This paper outlines the need for comprehensive reforms to improve the U.S. government's capacity to effectively implement policies, focusing on reducing bureaucratic inefficiencies, enhancing workforce structures, and leveraging digital infrastructure.
This toolkit is designed to support government agencies in evaluating the effectiveness of their public participation and community engagement (PPCE) activities.
This blog post discusses the importance of prototyping in the public sector, focusing on how it helps test assumptions, gather user feedback, and refine ideas before making significant investments in building or launching a product or service.
This brief outlines the U.S. federal government’s framework to identify, reduce, and address administrative burdens through a series of executive orders, legislative actions, and updated policies focused on improving customer experience and increasing access to government benefits.
This video documents the Digital Benefits Network's Digital Identity Community of Practice launch, covering mission review, 2025 goals, California authentication innovations, and peer networking for equitable and effective digital identity in public benefits.
This brief synthesizes the manner in which the political and social service environments affect the intergenerational stability of non-citizen families, offering insights into programmatic supports.
American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)
This guide provides practical financing strategies for governments to build, maintain, and expand integrated data systems (IDS) and evaluation capacity using federal and non-federal funding sources.
An interactive tool from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative that provides a customizable, filterable view of WCAG 2.x success criteria and implementation techniques to help teams design and evaluate accessible digital content.
