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The Social Services Directory is a repository of social services in the Michigan Community of Information Exchange managed and curated by Michigan 211 that can be searched. The API was built on the Open Referral Specification. Here is a link to the website https://openreferral.org/ .

The API is broken up into consists of four different entities that can be queried.

Entity

Description

Organizations

The organization record is used to provide basic description and details about each organization delivering services. Each service should be linked to the organization responsible for its delivery. One organization may deliver many services.

Contacts

The contact table contains details of the named contacts for services and organizations. Note that in the Human Services Data Specification (HSDS) http://docs.openreferral.org/en/latest/hsds/ data package format, if an individual is the contact for multiple services, their details may be duplicated multiple times in this table, each time with a new identifier, and with the rows containing different service ids.

Services

Services are the specific types of assistance provided by organizations to a range of different groupsconstituents.

Locations

The location tables provides details of the locations Locations are the physical or virtual locations and associated details where organizations operate. Locations may be virtual, and one organization may have many locations.

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The following are the URLs for this API. Please note that base url for the region you are looking for can be found here Community of Information Exchange Hub Region URL

Headers

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Header

Description

x-api-key

This will be a key that will provided by a community information exchange administrator.

ContentType

application/json

Authorization

This will be the access token that was retrieved using your client id and secret

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