Where to Care
What is Where to Care?
- An app that allows Care Providers to share a link to a map of available sexual and reproductive health, comprehensive family planning, and gender-based violence services
- Helps clients find nearby health service providers based on the client’s location
- Provides verified information about the types of services which are available at that location
- Assesses client friendliness at health care locations
- Amidst the current environment of complex funding constraints and restrictions, care providers often cannot share accurate and up-to-date essential information about what services are available and where because those providers may:
- Not offer the needed services
- Be restricted in what information they can share with patients or clients
- Not know all of the resources in the areas where the client lives or works
- Care Provider uses the Where to Care app to send a Client an SMS
- The Client receives a discreet SMS from Where to Care—NOT from the provider or her/his organization
- The SMS contains a link to Google Maps
- If the client clicks on the link, Google Maps opens and displays nearby services that have been verified by Where to Care-trained mapping teams
- Where to Care is an initiative led by experts and partners at The TRIAD Trust, amfAR, Remote Harbor, the Center for Health & Gender Equity, faculty and staff at Harvard University, and a broad network of in-country NGO, CBO, private health providers, legal experts, academic researchers, government partners, and community-based advisors
- Where to Care-trained mapping teams are composed of 100% community-based partners