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San Joaquin County unveils SHINE homelessness app and reports SJ Cares outreach gains
Summary
Probation officials and contractor Anshar Labs demonstrated SHINE, a new mobile platform intended to unify data on unsheltered residents; SJ Cares said outreach teams linked dozens of people to housing in the past year.
San Joaquin County probation officials presented two related homelessness tools on Sept. 9: SHINE, a mobile and shelter management platform built by Anshar Labs to centralize field data and real-time bed counts, and an update from SJCares, the county’s probation-led outreach and case-management team.
Chief Probation Officer Steve Jackson said the board approved a contract in October (date not specified in the meeting record) to develop SHINE. Representatives from Anshar Labs described the system as a mobile app for field officers, a shelter-management interface for bed availability and a role-based central platform for secure, discretionary access to client records.
Panaki Saha of Anshar Labs said the company completed…
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