Introduction

Overview of the project

Glossary of terms(non technical)

• Case Worker: A social worker who assists individuals experiencing home insecurity in receiving aid. The case worker may work for the government, or for a non-profit or mutual aid organization. The case worker is a professional with no particular computer program who could be working with several clients at a time in a variety of social situations, from stable office work to physically dangerous interactions.
• An individual working with a case worker. The data stored in a PASS pod will belong to the client, and the logic around PASS will be processing the client’s own data. We generally expect clients to be people experiencing home insecurity in need of social support. They may not have a computer of their own, or even a permanent address.
• Organization: A government, non profit, or mutual aid organization to whom the case manager belongs. We can assume the organization is large enough to have a system administrator or tech director who could set up and organize PASS hosting.

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Project goals and objectives

The goal of PASS is to create a decentralized system that puts users in control of their own data - primarily housing insecure individuals who are most at risk of losing their important documents. We have validated through the Portland State University Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative (HRAC) that keeping important documents safe and available is a major problem of the housing insecure community and currently nothing to solve this exists.

Similar efforts are being done in Baltimore, New York, and Los Angeles, as well as internationally, but they have yet to show success. None of them, though, have attempted to this with a decentralized platform. In discussions with Baltimore, they said they had a great deal of help from their local Lived Experience Committee team.

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Product explanation

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Brief history and context

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MVP outline

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