Introduction

SF residents issue requests for syringe disposal by creating a tickets and mapping the location of the syringes found in public areas. The app then sends an alert to volunteers to help with disposal. On-duty volunteer(s) will claim the tickets and update the status once the reported syringes have been disposed.

Features

• SF residents map the location of syringe(s) found in public areas.
• Sends alerts to volunteers
• Volunteers accept cases and update status, providing the number of syringes collected from the location.
• SF residents request an area recieves special attention before events.
• Track number of completed disposals by volunteer (response time, number of syringes and location).
• Track historical locations of disposed syringes cleaned up.
• Accept and track volunteer applications.
• Track the progress of volunteers interviews, orientation and safety training.
• Stretch goal: - Interface with 511.org so volunteer can plan travel by bus/train to the location.
• Stretch goal: - Badge system
• Stretch goal: Invite volunteers to appreciation events
• Stretch goal: Create a low threshold incentivized work program using the app. SF residents/erchants may donate to the service, providing stipends to volunteers using a third-party payments through Braintree or Stripe. This would allow homeless and other low-income folks to sign-in for work to earn income.

Application

Generating the Application

The app was created using the Angular CLI with the following command:

ng new Application --style=scss --routing --skip-git

--style=scss - file extension to be used for style files.

--routing - Generates a routing module named app-routing.module.ts.

--skip-git - Skiped initializing a git repository when the app was created since the app was generated inside of an exisiting repository.

Deploy to Firebase

# cd into the Application directory
cd Application

# Run the ng build command with the 'prod' and 'output-path' flags
# the output path should point to the 'dist' directory
ng build --prod --output-path dist

# Deploy to Firebase Hosting
firebase deploy --only hosting -m "optional message describing this deploy"

Firebase: Cloud Firestore Database

The data is stored in a Firestore databases. Below are the fields for each document type in the database.

Volunteers

• Name
• Location (Street address, City, Zip)
• Email
• Phone
• Email opt-in
• Text messages opt-in
• Approved status
• Number of pickups
• Image

Report Syringe Pickup

• Name
• Location
• Requestor Details
• Requestor Email follow-up?
• Requestor Email
• Number of syringes
• Status (updated by volunteers)
• Requestor Time reported
• Volunteer Time completed

Request Regular/Future Inspection

• Name
• Email
• Phone
• Address (Street address, City, State, Zip)
• One time / On-going