Vital Documents database creatorAt — Wings Homeless Advocacy
Our Vital Documents Team processes between 400 and 500 birth certificate applications for people experiencing homelessness in Santa Cruz County each year. A birth certificate is the first step to getting onto a path of housing and is required for ID, housing programs, accepting a job, enrolling in school, and receiving benefits -virtually anything that will help someone stabilize and become self-sufficient. The current database that we use to store all of this confidential information for our clients has outlasted its usefulness and we need a new database to continue to serve the county appropriately and to be able to access a lot of info in a secure and timely manner. This project would require a person with appropriate database and programming skills to learn the info we need to store and track and create a new user-friendly database for us going forward.
How to assess the needs of a social service program, and create a solution aligned with those needs - lastly to train the users!
Intern will be work closely with Exec Director, Program Manager and Vital Docs Team to learn the strengths and challenges of the current system that need to be addressed. On an as-needed basis.
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Would love CSUMB to help us match with a computer science student who would like the experience of applying their skills to a real world problem.
| Hours | Duration |
|---|---|
| 2-4 | hours per week |