Communities can foster environments for citizens to thrive and boost their upward mobility. The conditions most local to a family are also most critical to achieve mobility from poverty. Mobility from poverty includes economic success, power and autonomy, and being valued in a community.
To measure how upwardly mobile a community is, there are three key drivers tied to the definition:

• Strong and health families
• Supportive communities
• Opportunities to learn and earn

Each driver has evidence-based metrics associated with it that can highlight the strengths and weaknesses of a community, and track progress on goals to improve the lives of its residents. These metrics can then inform community leaders where priorities should be to ensure that citizens have the opportunity to reach their full potential and be well-rounded individuals.

This project was inspired and has intended to follow the research report Boosting Upward Mobility: Metrics to Inform Local Action. This report detailed what metrics to gather and what government agency or other source to obtain them from, however, no technical details were provided. The original intention was that these would be collected by one city or region for their own upward mobility analysis, and therefore would not be a large lift to manually go to each source and gather the data. This project contains a way to programmatically collect all counties in the US from multiple disparate sources and bring them together in one dataframe. This is a reproducible method to retrieve many of these metrics, so that less-technical organizations will find them more accessible, and they can be updated as new data becomes available each year.

Quantifying the Need for Attorney Pro Bono Services in Connection with the Social Determinants of Health

The paper estimates the need for additional attorney hours annually to address the legal needs of indigent clients throughout the United States in matters that comprise the so-called social determinants of health (SDoH). The result will inform stakeholders such as policy makers and private donors so they can allocate resources appropriately and design programs to close the “justice gap.” As a pilot study, the scope of the project covers only a few major justice problems related to the social determinants of health (standard housing, evictions and foreclosures, guardianships for the incapacitated, and victims of domestic violence) because they significantly impact health outcomes and there are data available. 

"BACS provides the necessary tools—from surgical preauthorization tools and preoperative planning
to 3D anatomical modeling and postoperative reporting—to help you achieve quality patient outcomes and to support the perioperative process."

- Working remotely with a modest team of 5 developers on building new features as well as maintaining and updated legacy code.

- Tests, tests tests! Improved test coverage

- DRF, Django, Vue