The resources you always recommend, on one page a family can keep.
You already know the ten links that help. Put them in one list, drag them into the order that makes sense, and hand the family a code to scan. It is on their phone before they leave the room.
While You Are Here
Start at the top. You do not have to do all of it today, and you can text me any time.
This list was put together for you by Danielle Whitfield at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
A Clicklist is one page of resources, in the order you want a family to work through them, shared with a code they scan.
Three minutes to build. Two seconds to hand over.
Then you keep the same list for the next family, and the one after that.
Put your list together
Type in a resource, or take one from the tray of the programs everybody recommends. Add a section title when the list gets long enough to need one.
Drag it into the right order
What the family should do today goes at the top. What can wait until next month goes at the bottom. That order is the advice.
Share it
Hold up the code and they scan it. Or text it, email it, or print a card to hand across the table.
A code, not a URL
Nobody types a web address off a piece of paper. A camera pointed at a square is the shortest distance between your screen and their phone.
Or send it in a text
One tap opens your messages with the link already written. Most families read a text long before they open an email.
Or print the card
A half sheet with the code, your name and your number on it, for the visit where nobody has a phone out.
Half of what you hand out is a phone number, not a link.
So a phone number is its own kind of item, and tapping it dials. Same with a text thread, an email intake box, and the pantry address that opens in maps. The family taps once and the thing happens.
Build my listA website
The benefits application, the enrollment form, the eligibility screener.
A phone number
Tapping it dials. 211, 988, the intake line that never has a working web form.
A text thread
Your own number included, so a parent can reach you without a phone call.
An address
The pantry, the clinic, the office. It opens in maps with directions already running.
A section title
"Do these first" and "When you need someone" turn a wall of links into a plan.
The ninth family should not cost what the first one did.
You spent an hour finding the right pantry, the right legal aid office, the right number to call after five. That work should be worth something the next time, and the time after that. A Clicklist is where it goes so it stops being retyped.
Build the list you have been describing out loud for years.
It takes about three minutes and you never have to build it again.