Visionlink

Building Together: Visionlink is Selected as the Technology Platform Partner of Choice for the Columbus Community Information Exchange (CIE)!

This comprehensive process began with more than 80 organizations accessing the RFP materials, applications from 26 vendors, 5 semi-finalist demonstrations and interviews, and 3 finalist on-site demonstrations, product examples, and proposed planning documents.

Read our blog (visionlinkblog.org) to learn more about our partners and this work.

Hurricane Ian Damage Assessment System Deployed

Avancera Partners has activated Visionlink's public-facing Damage Assessment tool for emergency managers and non-profit relief agencies preparing to respond.

New estimates call for a storm surge of 12-18 feet from Englewood and Charlotte Harbor to south of Fort Myers. A broader area, running from north of Englewood to north of Sarasota, could experience a storm surge of eight to 12 feet. This will be a serious level of impact.

This simple, yet powerful tool allows affected households to self-report damage from their smartphone or tablet in less than three minutes.

• Quick link for public messaging & social media
• Real time mapping and situational awareness
• Integration with Case Management and Sheltering

Informed consent governs the use of the system, and data is shared only with vetted and authorized agencies and organizations.

ACTION STEP
Communities can receive a link to capture damage impacts from Hurricane Ian. Email: [email protected] or call Visionlink at 303-402-0170 x302.

Avancera operates as an incubator, as a facilitator, and often as a neutral third party to help leaders move from the desire to work as partners, to the operational reality of doing so.

Prepare.
Be Safe.
Your Visionlink Team

In honor of National Disability Independence Day, Visionlink commemorates the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and celebrates the structural changes across the US since July 1990 and the assistive digital technologies that we've embraced.

We're partnered with the World Institute on Disability to help evacuate individuals with disabilities from Ukraine--and more generally, to move the Visionlink platform from assistive compliance, to actually well designed usability.

As we support whole-of-community approaches under both blue skies and gray, we are building solutions that are not only supportive of public users, but for staff users as well. Learning from WID, we do this so our systems can be used by disability-led organizations, not only those who support disabled clients.

To learn more, check out Why Digital Accessibility Should Matter to You - (link below) - by World Institute on Disability freelance writer Lucy Sirianni. She shares great insights that can help you keep your systems adaptable, interaction-friendly and accessible. Together we celebrate truly inclusive solutions.

Let's go change another part of the world for good.
Your Visionlink Team

https://wid.org/why-digital-accessibility-should-matter-to-you/

OREGON OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Goods & Services Donations

Pleased to support the good work of the Oregon Office of Emergency Management for COVID Goods and Services Donation Management.

The agency has deployed Visionlink’s In-Kind Assist solution to let visitors know about needed goods and services and to connect donors and recipients. It's an electronic marketplace to do good.

You can visit their site here: https://oregonrecovers.communityos.org, and you can learn more about the state government’s leading efforts: https://govstatus.egov.com/or-covid-19.