Community Assets PA

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• Traditional Community Service Directories
• Data becomes outdated quickly
• Lack of resources to develop and/or maintain
• Usually one entity is responsible for updates
• Multiple directories / duplicate efforts
• Difficult to ensure printed copy gets into right
  hands
• Printed copy may not be available to general
  public

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What is Community Assets PA?

• Web-based system
• Linking community assets
• Promotes collaboration, coordination, and
  effective limited resource utilization

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CAPA - Key System Features

• Maintained by registered users
• Extensive search criteria
• Common database
• Controlled access
• Dynamic structure
• Based on Taxonomy of Human Services

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CAPA Vision

• Develop a coordinated system of service delivery
  that encourages cooperation, collaboration and
  responsible use of limited resources.
• Enable service providers to participate in one,
  larger system that BENEFITS the community and
  transcends the local boundaries.

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• Four Components
• Yellow Pages
• Community Calendar
• Volunteer Center
• Information and Referral Directory

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• Basic descriptions and contact information about
  an entity
• Identifies organizations later businesses
  specific to your community
• Flexible searching category, county, city/town,
  zip code, and keyword

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• Ability to post events up to 3 future years
• Reoccurring events can be posted for multiple
  dates
• Search for events using many categories and date
  ranges
• Mapping to events
• Minimize scheduling conflicts and maximize
  spreading

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• Volunteers
• Search for volunteer opportunities
• Organizations
• Post volunteer needs
• Search volunteer registrations
• Organizations and volunteers have access to
  up-to-date information on volunteer resources and
  opportunities

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• Information and Referral database
• Uses taxonomy of human services standard
• Provides a common language for services
• Subcategorized and cross-referenced into 6,600
  vocabulary with standard definitions
• Comprehensive addresses both service categories
  and target groups
• Provides opportunities for collaboration
• Electronic referral / contact option
• Flexible searching county, city/town, zip code,
  organization, subject, target group, and keyword

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• Organized into 10 basic service categories
• Basic Needs
• Consumer Services
• Criminal Justice Legal Systems
• Education
• Environmental Quality
• Health Care
• Income Security
• Individual Family Life
• Mental Health Care Counseling
• Organizational/Community/International Services

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• Each service definition can be broken down into
  levels of progressively more detailed
  information
• BASIC NEEDS
• Temporary Financial Aid
• Utility Assistance
• Utility Bill Payment Assistance
• ? Electric Bill Assistance
• ? Gas Bill Assistance

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Target Groups is another way to categorize and
define services

• Military Personnel
• Occupations
• Offenders
• Organizational Perspectives
• Religious Groups
• Sex / Gender
• Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity
• Topical Identifiers / Issues
• Transients
• Urban / Rural Location
• Victims / Survivors
• Volunteers

• Age Groups
• Aid Recipients / Beneficiaries
• Caregivers
• Citizenship
• Diseases / Disabilities
• Educational Status
• Ethnic Groups / National Origin
• Experiencers of Paranormal / Extraterrestrial
  Events
• Families and Individuals Needing Support
• Family Relationships
• Income Groups

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• Each target group can be broken down into levels
  of progressively more detailed information
• FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS NEEDING SUPPORT
• At Risk Populations
• At Risk Adults
• At Risk Families
• At Risk Youth

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Enter your contact data. (spell check available)
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List the counties and sub-political boundary
where you reside.
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List categories, counties, political boundaries
your agency serves.
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List your CAPA contact information.
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Add your services to the I R searchable
database.
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Check the counties the program serves.
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Enter your data as complete as possible.
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Search the Find Info and Services I R
database. Step 1 pick a county or sub-political
boundary Find programs in the following counties
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Search the Find Info and Services I R
database. Step 2 pick a county or sub-political
boundary Find programs in the following counties
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Search the Find Info and Services I R
database. Step 3 choose a search option
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Search the Find Info and Services I R
database. Step 4 Review results
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Search the Find Info and Services I R
database. Step 5 look at agency services
results Click on service for more information.
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Benefits of CAPA CAPA provides every
county in Pennsylvania the opportunity to have
the same high level of sophisticated I R
availability. CAPAs decentralized system
allows local agencies to maintain their own
programs and services information thus data is
current and stays current. CAPA avoids
duplication of effort. Why invest valuable
dollars and resources recreating a system that
already exists for free? WWW.COMMUNITYASSETSPA
.ORG
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