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How do we improve and simplify access to food programs, so that more students have the real opportunity to flourish?
Recently, there’s been a surge in news stories focused on the large number of college students who struggle with food insecurity. In 2018, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that more than 30% of college students lack adequate access to food and 4 in 10 potentially eligible students were not receiving SNAP benefits.
Soon, SNAP eligibility rules will become more stringent. In December, NPR published an article detailing how many low-income students will lose access to SNAP benefits as a result of tightened work requirements.
We recently started fieldwork to discover what factors are keeping so many eligible college students from accessing SNAP benefits. Read more in our blog post, Reimagining SNAP Benefits for College Students.
Conference Roll Call
Alluma policy experts will be attending Families USA’s Health Action Conference, featuring keynote speaker Xavier Becerra, January 23-25 in Washington, D.C. Follow us on Twitter for live updates during the conference.
We are also proud sponsors of Tech Intersections, which brings together womxn of color working in tech. Tickets for the event, which takes place January 25 at Mills College in Oakland, are still available here.
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Karthik Ponnala and the Solutions Delivery Team at Alluma were faced with the challenge of transferring over 4,000 patients from a closing clinic to prevent them from losing medical coverage. This is how they did it.
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See Beyond... Procurement & Vendor Management
A look at best practices, policy changes, and technological breakthroughs.
Many state and county procurement processes and vendor management for creating and implementing technology could use refinement. Too often, the “kitchen sink” proposal fails to deliver the most efficient solution. There’s even reason to believe that more flexibility, nimbleness, and innovation in the purchasing process can lead to greater success in implementation. Some government agencies are attempting change through open source code, hack-a-thons, and an agile development process. How have you tried to change your process?
 To improve the prospect of successful implementation, consider the following questions before you start drafting that RFP:
💡 What other agencies have implemented a similar solution? What parts of their solution can be used for this project to avoid starting from scratch?
💡 How will the solution work with other systems inside and outside the agency?
💡 Can the solution handle an increased volume of users? Is it scalable?
💡 Will the solution be open source and available to share with other agencies to make it easier for them to implement a similar solution?
Find more tips for improving your client-facing processes in our white paper, Improving Customer Service in Health and Human Services Through Technology.
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