“The civic-tech group Code for America plans to launch a new program next year aimed at shoring up states’ social services, potentially helping state IT offices back off of the “crisis mode” they’ve been in for nearly the past two years.
Tracey Patterson, the group’s vice president of social safety net programs, told StateScoop that it will direct resources and new funding from Blue Meridian Partners, a New York City philanthropic group, toward an initiative that will “rebuild” the country’s social safety net.”