Disaster Technologies
Proven Disaster Response
Built on the experience of 100,000’s of incidents, hundreds of named, major disasters, millions of clients and a billion dollars of financial assistance.
Designed with expert input from dozens of the nation’s leading relief agencies for state government and nonprofit agencies.
Priced for service, not profit.
One Integrated Platform
Select the module(s) you need or deploy the entire platform to support the continuum of response and recovery.
Register users once. Enter data once. Train users once—and benefit from the modules you need, or the entire suite. Plus, use our data exchange tools to connect to any other system for a network of connected systems.
Use the technology designed to make your good works better.
Damage Assessment
A no charge, powerful solution: quickly capture information about the scale and scope of damage from the public, and / or from volunteer or professional assessment teams.
Streamlined, intuitive data entry with type-ahead entry and dynamic script logic—in multiple languages and for any device
Ready for Contact Centers too, with integrated telephony, chat, email, and text options. Let the public pre-fill information as well.
Capture some of the most important, timely information right now and understand how you can most appropriately respond.
Community Cleanup
When hundreds or thousands of homes are impacted by a storm, fire, or other disaster, deploy this trusted platform to safely clear debris, secure homes, and begin emergency repairs quickly. Our tools:
Capture immediate impacts from residents
Manage Work Request claims and completion
Improve response times, eliminate duplication
Coordinate requests among with approved agencies
Capture response data to highlight scope and scale of cleanup
Support public messaging, group emails, and interactive messaging
Ready for instant deployment using proven templates, or use the no-code administrative suite to configure any component to match your operations.
Integrated with Visionlink’s CommunityOS® Case management solutions for single data entry accuracy and coordinated client assistance support.
Canvasing & Mitigation
Need to canvas your community—or your entire state? With online forms, street outreach teams, neighborhood organizations as outreach partners, or direct digital communications for input? This canvasing, education, and mitigation solution helps you solicit input from your community residents, understand their evolving needs, and plan for better outreach, education, and mitigation efforts.
Supports multi-agency, multi-event, multi-location scenarios where you need to focus on different needs across different communities simultaneously.
Working with neighborhood partners to conduct outreach, we support this approach as well—with identical, or partner specific solutions.
Local Assistance Center Operations
Rapidly coordinate Assistance Center operations—on-site, or virtually.
Partner agencies—utilities, government services, social services, business services and others—create their own support profiles. Survivors do the same about their households and damages. Then, optionally with printed wrist straps of ID badges, clients grant access to each participating agency for coordinated assistance. Eliminate duplication. Reduce data entry. Gain immediate access to recovery needs metrics and other analytics. Quickly provide one-stop support services.
Damage Assessment
A no charge, powerful solution: quickly capture information about the scale and scope of damage from the public, and / or from volunteer or professional assessment teams.
Streamlined, intuitive data entry with type-ahead entry and dynamic script logic—in multiple languages and for any device
Ready for Contact Centers too, with integrated telephony, chat, email, and text options. Let the public pre-fill information as well.
Capture some of the most important, timely information right now and understand how you can most appropriately respond.
Sheltering
For both congregate and non-congregate care—be ready to shelter your population with public announcements and directions, with management tools such as facility capacities, ADA compliance, functional and special needs, and with support for staffing, volunteers, activities and incident logs.
Plus: the only capacity planning module in the marketplace. Now you can through scenarios and know what you’ll need to succeed.
With congregate and non-congregate sheltering for pandemic response through our partner CLC Lodging. Learn More.
Volunteer Management
Volunteers can be extraordinarily useful — but only if they can respond to actual needs, at the right time, with the rights skills.
Individual, team, and crowd sourced volunteer management—driven by the actual needs. Benefit from volunteer profiles with skills, experience, licenses, and availability. Affiliated and un-affiliated management. Background checks and ID badges to maintain safety.
Ready for single or multi-agency use. Coordinate volunteers across an entire region, state, or for all your affiliates across the nation. For many concurrent events and incidents. Proven for everything from relief operations to election poll worker recruitment.
In-Kind Goods & Services
Yes, money is the most efficient resource to give. And unsolicited donations are a problem—but humans want to give tangible goods and services to respond, so we built the solution to solve the problem. Describe the actually needed goods and services that can be useful. For one or many events. At different stages of response. For business and / or public donations and nonprofit and government recipients.
This works like an electronic marketplace, connecting offers to give, with actual needs. And the best part? We stop the tech where the relationship between donor and recipient begins so we do not get between donor and beneficiary.
Situational Awareness
Collaboration and coordinated assistance does not work blind. So, this module is a private, secure solution for trusted partners to share their response status and posture.
Understand who is responding where, the focus of their efforts, and excess or needed supplies and material.
When time is short, and your donors expect efficient, leveraged response—be in the know with the rest of the leading response organizations.
Case Management
Extraordinary case management tools for one or many agencies, and across many events, incidents and locations.
Share information collaboratively, restrict information that needs to remain private. Let your clients pre-fill information with which to begin.
Manage household information, recovery needs, timelines, referrals, advocacy efforts, status and multiple case managers. Coordinate care in real time for radically better outcomes.
Repair & Rebuild
Manage lists of trusted contractors, track estimates, bids and permits for specific projects—and do this for one or many simultaneous events, we can help.
Begin with our damage assessment forms so you know overall scale and scope, and then deploy this module to manage cleanup and construction.
Manage projects, link them to specific client and case management records, and keep track of status, projects, and deadlines. Transform how you manage rebuilding operations and make them an integrated component of the overall operation.
Community Services
Because we also support Information and referrals, crisis lines, aging agencies, 2-1-1’s and other community service organizations, we offer the most advanced solution for managing, vetting, updating and publishing information about community services and programs.
Active referrals, taxonomy management, coordinated care, and so much more. In the disaster space? The easy to use directory of local services useful to disaster survivors.
Configured to Your Operations
All of the modules discussed on this page are ready to launch right now.
Even better? Every field, form, workflow, and more can be configured to meet your specific operations. Right now. No expensive custom programming or delays for software engineering.
You can make the system yours. Now. And when new opportunities arise? You can respond more effectively and more quickly than anyone else.
Reports & Analytics
You need to tell your story, and analytics can help. You need to make decisions, and metrics can inform your next steps. Benefit from our brand new, on-platform, real-time reporting solution. Objects and dashboards built on the fly—as they are needed.
Or, use our APIs to send data to your existing reporting tools, or build on our partnership with Domo—arguably the most advanced third-party business intelligence solution available today. At any level, we can make sure that the work you do, can be understood and shared with others from local recovery efforts to nation-wide, rolled up, analytics.
Data Exchange
We move 100,000,000’s of data fields every week.
With the only API Builders in this market, our customers save $20,000 or more with every data exchange we deploy.
You can access and share data with virtually any system quickly and less expensively. And for those without API support, we have csv-builders too, for imports, exports, and bulk updates. We move 100’s of millions of data fields every week.
Background Checks & ID Badges
Be safe. Check on your staff and volunteers—every month, not once a year. Select from different packages appropriate to your needs.
Enjoy direct integration across the Visionlink platform. Let your volunteers pay for, or defray, background check costs.
Do good, with a safe workforce.
Non-Congregate Care
Working with CLC Lodging, our sheltering solutions are now powered with more than 45,000 hotels, professional support and master billing—and most importantly, an entire team ready to reserve space for your staff, responders, volunteers and clients.
When you need more space and safe quarantine options, we can make it happen.
Proven Reliability
We work hard to be there for you — always. With dedicated Visionlink professionals focused on system reliability as ‘job one.’
During Hurricane Katrina we became known as the “one national system that did not fail.” We live up to that commendation every day so you can serve your clients in need. Learn More.
Implementation Expertise
Our staff have designed national disaster relief programs, implemented recovery operations across the nation, and then helped many of our customers to build on that expertise. We can help you—from implementation plans, to capacity planning, to real-time support.
L.et us know what you need. So much more than just the best software.
Support & Training
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Contact us.
We would love to hear from you.
contact@visionlink.org
303.402.0170
www.visionlink.org (our primary web site)
4450 Arapahoe Avenue
Suite 100
Boulder, CO 80303