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City funds searchable upgrade to Community Resource Network; database aims to help agencies locate services for vulnerable residents
Summary
Using $20,000 in ARPA funds, Portsmouth funded an update to the Community Resource Network to create a searchable, filterable web database of local human‑service organizations. The searchable site converts a 100‑page resource guide that lists roughly 225 agencies into an indexed tool intended primarily for service providers; 66 agencies have
City health staff and a longtime community organizer demonstrated a new, searchable Community Resource Network website funded with $20,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to help human‑service agencies and city departments locate services for vulnerable residents.
Health Director Kim McNamara explained the COVID Recovery Task Force had identified the Community Resource Network — a 100‑page guide listing about 225 agencies — as a critical but hard‑to‑search resource that many local agencies use to refer residents to services. The ARPA funding paid for a web upgrade to make the…
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