Help shape public health alerts in Santa Cruz County
Download PHapp®, try it for a month, and tell us what works. You'll earn a gift card for taking part — and help bring clearer emergency and health information to Santa Cruz County.
PHapp® sends free, local emergency and public-health alerts. We're evaluating how useful it is for our community, and we need your honest experience to make it better.
Download PHapp® — It's free, on iPhone or Android, and takes a minute to set up. Use it for about a month.
Take a 5-minute survey — At the end of the month, tell us what was useful and what wasn't. The first 200 participants earn a $15 gift card.
Optional: join a focus group — A friendly, in-person conversation at Mariposa Health Center in Nogales (or in Patagonia). The first 40 participants earn a $30 gift card.
Completely voluntary — Take part on your own schedule. This is a program evaluation, not research, and you can stop at any time.
Who can take part
We're recruiting two groups across Santa Cruz County.
Community Health Workers — Promotoras and frontline staff at Mariposa Health Center, CHAC, County HHS, and partner organizations.
Community members — Anyone who lives or works in Santa Cruz County, is 18 or older, and has a smartphone.
The first 200 people to finish the 5-minute survey earn a $15 gift card. The first 40 people to join a focus group earn a $30 gift card. You're welcome to do both.
Download PHapp® (it's free), use it for about a month, and take a short survey at the end. If you'd like, you can also join a small in-person focus group.
Anyone who lives or works in Santa Cruz County, is 18 or older, and has a smartphone. We especially welcome Community Health Workers from Mariposa Health Center, CHAC, County HHS, and partner organizations.
No. This is a program evaluation to make PHapp® and local alerts more useful for Santa Cruz County. Taking part is completely voluntary, and you can stop at any time.
It's run by Hub — the team behind PHapp® — together with the University of Arizona and the Arizona Department of Health Services, alongside Santa Cruz County health partners.
Yes. What you share is used only for this evaluation. We don't sell your information or show ads, and your feedback isn't tied to your identity in any report.
In person at Mariposa Health Center in Nogales, with sessions also planned in Patagonia. Each is a relaxed, roughly 45-minute conversation — we'll work around your schedule.
