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This repository houses two projects, one of which is built upon the other. Establish is a project started by the Boise Brigade of Code for America with the goal of supplying important and time-sensitive information to the refugee community in the Boise, Idaho area.

While researching the project, we soon dicovered that the Boise School District maintains a publication which incorporates a majority of the information we hoped to share. There was only one problem: all of the information lived in a text document. This meant we would have to extract the unstructured data and transpose them into a tabluar format for import into ths database.

Structure

Establish App is an app that is independent of the Self-Rescue Manual. However, Establish App shares many categories/entries with the Self-Rescue Manual, and when the SRM is updated, the Establish App will automatically update the shared resources between the two.

The primary user concerns for the app are to provide resources to their refugee client-base, and be able to contact clients via push notifications in the event of an emergency (a measles outbreak, or a tax scam targeting refugees are examples of this).

The SRM and Self-Rescue Manual are managed by the Boise School District for Ada and Canyon Counties of Idaho. It is a resource document/site/whatever that lists out resources for in-need residents of the aforementioned counties. This list is provided as a website as well as a downloadable, printable PDF for Canyon and Ada Counties. An admin panel/login allows for updates to both the website and PDF.