Every app here began with a lifeline: one statement of who it is for, and what it must do.
These case studies test each app two ways. First, a made-up scenario puts the app in the hands of the people it was built for, at a hard moment. Does the app do what its lifeline promises? Second, the student's own professional standards judge the design. Each app has two scenarios, and each scenario has its own seven-day sprint.
This page gathers all nine apps in one place, grouped by the standards that judge them. Open any app to read both of its case studies and start the sprints.
Social Work — CSWE Competencies
These four apps were built by social work students. Both of each app's case studies are judged against the CSWE 2022 EPAS competencies of their MSW programs.
CA Regional Assistance — Sabrena Marie
The app helps families understand California Regional Center services in plain words, in English and Spanish. A family answers questions before an IPP meeting, and the app builds one final summary to take into the room.
Lifeline: “My app helps individuals and their advocates navigate California Regional Center services, easing access to the important programs and support systems that families are entitled to, increasing their understanding of services and the overall process.”(Sabrena's lifeline, Oct 24, 2026)
Scenario 1: Two Weeks Before the Meeting — a mother prepares for her young son's first IPP meeting, and learns the paper can be ready while she is not.
Scenario 2: When the Answer Is Not Yet — a mother faces a service cut, one wrong date in her summary, and appeal rights nobody had shown her.
Standards: CSWE Competency 1 — Ethical and Professional Behavior · Competency 2 — Advance Human Rights and Social, Racial, Economic, and Environmental Justice · Competency 7 — Assess · Competency 9 — Evaluate Practice.
The app helps a clinician keep client work in order: client files and notes, daily task reminders, guidance for BIRP notes, and two AI tools — a recap of the last session, and the Caseload Copilot, which pulls up a client's dated notes.
Documented intent: “To keep client work in order — and walk into each session ready.”(No quoted lifeline statement is on record for Jose; this is his documented intent, stated plainly on his case study page.)
Scenario 1: The Detail That Belonged to Someone Else — an AI recap brings a clinician a true detail about the wrong client, and she catches it from memory.
Scenario 2: Two Jaydens — a morning brief quietly merges two students with the same first name into one child who does not exist.
A bilingual app, in English and Spanish, for children of immigrants and students who cross the border for school. It has a private journal, a resource map for both sides of the border, journaling and goal coaches, coping tools, and a community section where young people share their stories.
Lifeline: “A tool to help children of immigrants whose families have faced deportation navigate their experience.”(Diana's lifeline, Oct 12, 2026)
Scenario 1: The Words She Cannot Write Yet — a ten-year-old who has words for everything except the thing itself meets a journal that asks for words first.
Scenario 2: The Story He Almost Posted — a thirteen-year-old drafts his story for the community section, and stops at a preview that shows his real name and his school.
Standards: CSWE Competency 2 — Advance Human Rights and Social, Racial, Economic, and Environmental Justice · Competency 6 — Engage · Competency 7 — Assess · Competency 8 — Intervene · Competency 9 — Evaluate Practice.
The app guides a person coming home from a long sentence through the first steps in order: ID, Social Security card, then benefits like CalFresh. It finds resources by county, carries a printable guide to program requirements, a personal action-plan checklist, and a community area where returning citizens share what works.
Lifeline: “My project would be to develop a resource to assist my brother when he comes home from serving 28 years. By providing him with information on what resources and help he may need. Once he comes home I want to help him start fresh. Help him get back together with family and then help others who are coming home from serving long time sentences.”(Adawna's lifeline statement, from her Voice Up record)
Scenario 1: The First Morning Home — a man home after decades follows the checklist to a housing number that no longer rings.
Scenario 2: The County She Came Home To — a woman released in one county and living in another gets correct answers for the wrong place, while her medication runs out.
Standards: CSWE Competency 2 — Advance Human Rights and Social, Racial, Economic, and Environmental Justice · Competency 7 — Assess · Competency 8 — Intervene · Competency 9 — Evaluate Practice.
Both of these apps were built by Carah Brown. Their case studies are judged against the CEPH competencies of her Master of Public Health program at UTA. The second app applies the same competencies to educational and cultural content.
Harmonia — Carah Brown
A health app for teen girls with three parts: a Health Knowledge Library in plain words, a Care Navigator that shows the next step, and an Appointment Advocate that helps a girl prepare for a visit. Its tools are suggestions to check with her own provider. The app does not diagnose.
Lifeline: “To connect teen girls to education, resources and advocacy tools.”(Carah's lifeline, Oct 26, 2026)
Scenario 1: The Question She Asked at Midnight — a fifteen-year-old with painful, irregular periods is dismissed everywhere she turns, until a screen hands her to a person.
Scenario 2: The Video Everyone Believed — a sprinter whose periods stopped trusts a video that calls it normal, and the app's facts have to compete with a warmer story.
Standards: CEPH Competency 7 — Assess population needs, assets and capacities · Competency 8 — Apply cultural values · Competency 9 — Design a population-based program or intervention · Competency 19 — Communicate audience-appropriate public health content · Competency 22 — Apply systems thinking tools.
An interactive music education platform that brings classical composers to life: composer timelines, repertoire discovery, listening exploration, and a Meet Samuel page about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Stated purpose: “To bring classical composers and their place in culture to life.”(The app's stated purpose. No lifeline is on record for this app, and its case study pages say so plainly.)
Scenario 1: The Composer She Had Never Heard — a sixteen-year-old meets Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and leaves able to retell his story.
Scenario 2: Not in the Book — a violinist has two minutes to convince her teacher and her class that a composer left out of the textbook belongs on the concert program.
This pilot was built by a health education student. Its case studies are judged against the NCHEC Areas of Responsibility for Health Education Specialists.
Wellness Check-In Pilot — Sy'Viceeaa Hall
An eight-week pilot toolkit for whole-person wellness check-ins. A coach runs check-in sessions, keeps past sessions, tracks follow-ups, reads a feedback inbox, and reviews the whole arc at week eight.
Lifeline: “Building confidence to maintain human life.”(Sy'Viceeaa's lifeline, Oct 24, 2026)
Scenario 1: Week Six of Eight — a client's answers drift downward at weeks five and six, and her coach must decide what a drift obliges her to do.
Scenario 2: All Fine, Every Week — every answer says fine for five weeks, given within earshot of the husband they are partly about, until one typed line tells the truth.
Standards: NCHEC Area I — Assessment of Needs and Capacity · Area II — Planning · Area IV — Evaluation and Research · Area VIII — Ethics and Professionalism.
Both of these apps were built by Dr. Angee Gonzalez Rodriguez for survivor services. Their case studies are judged against the NASW Code of Ethics.
Healing Circles Finder — Dr. Angee Gonzalez Rodriguez
A survivor types a zip code and finds the healing circle nearest them, then signs up with name, email, phone, and a brief introduction. The sign-up is private from the start. A specialists page shows the mental health experts, and a survivor can check her registration status.
Stated purpose: “A private sign-up for her nonprofit's weekly healing circles, so a survivor can find the circle nearest them and join it.”(The app's purpose as Dr. Angee stated it, Oct 12, 2026. No separate lifeline is on record.)
Scenario 1: Nearest, and Safe — a woman searching from a library computer finds a circle 1.2 miles away, and stops at the sign-up's phone field.
Scenario 2: What the Introduction Asked — a woman who trusts the room cannot write the paragraph the sign-up asks for, and never submits.
Standards: NASW 1.02 — Respect for Self-Determination · NASW 1.03 — Informed Consent · NASW 1.07 — Privacy and Confidentiality.
HerStance Foundation — Dr. Angee Gonzalez Rodriguez
A support platform for domestic violence and trauma survivors with three paths in one place: a Get Help request, educational assistance and tutoring, and professional referrals — plus ways to volunteer, partner, or donate.
Documented purpose: “A supportive resource platform for domestic violence and trauma survivors.”(The app's documented purpose. No lifeline is on record for this app, and its case study pages say so plainly.)
Scenario 1: The Search at Midnight — a woman needs help, tutoring, and a referral at once, and the help request cannot be saved and finished later.
Scenario 2: Searching for Her Daughter — a grandmother searches on behalf of her daughter in hiding, and reaches a form that asks for the survivor's own details.
Standards: NASW 1.01 — Commitment to Clients · NASW 1.02 — Respect for Self-Determination · NASW 1.07 — Privacy and Confidentiality.
How this page was built follows the Five Principles: outside voices were welcomed (Collaboration), gaps are stated plainly (Humility), dates and sources are named (Precision), feedback is treated as next work, not failure (Patience), and each next step starts from the user's why (Empathy). This is how Voice Up has achieved what it has to date.