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HelpKelowna
A community resource and referral navigation platform for the Central Okanagan. Residents find free and low-cost services (shelter, food, health, mental health and more) and get connected to what they need. It has connected thousands of residents to local resources.
Built for: Residents and frontline workers in the Central Okanagan
helpkelowna.com
Thousands
of residents connected to resources
1,229
verified resources
Quarterly
automated listing verification
What HelpKelowna takes off your plate
The problem
Residents looking for shelter, food, mental health or addiction support had to piece answers together from scattered websites and outdated PDFs, with no way to tell what was still current.
What it automates
Referral navigation across 1,229 listings, plus an automated verification workflow that re-checks every listing each quarter.
The result
Thousands of residents have been connected to free and low-cost services, and the directory stays current instead of going stale.
Built by Lifesaver
How we built HelpKelowna
The challenge
People in the Central Okanagan looking for shelters, food support, mental health help, or addiction services had to piece together answers from scattered websites and outdated PDFs.
What we built
HelpKelowna brings verified local resources into one place. Residents browse by need, see what’s open, use a map, and filter by hours, cost, and location to reach free and low-cost services. An automated verification workflow re-checks every listing each quarter so information doesn’t go stale. The platform is designed to be reusable for other cities and regions; Lifesaver built it and operates it in production.
Highlights
4 communities
covered from one deployment
72
automated test suites in CI
26-table
PostgreSQL schema
Technology
React 18TypeScriptExpressPostgreSQLDrizzle ORMAutomated verification pipeline
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