Start PHapp® in Your Community.
If your team already has alerting, start by reviewing the resident experience, sharing stable guidance links, and deciding how PHapp® should show up on your website and channels.
Use this page after choosing the audience path that best fits your team. You can start free, move at your own pace, and add portal workflows or optional programs later only if they are useful.
Start in 3 practical steps
- 1. Review the resident experience — Try PHapp® as a resident in your community so you can see exactly what people will see before you roll anything out.
- 2. Publish PHapp® through the channels you already use — Share stable guidance links, use the free marketing toolkit, and embed PHapp® on your website if you want residents to stay on an agency-owned page.
- 3. Access your agency portal — Sign in with your work email, invite your team, and review engagement stats for your community at no cost. Direct alerting and other advanced workflows can come later if needed.
Review the Resident Experience.
Try PHapp® as a resident — download the app, open it on the web, or sign up for text alerts. See exactly what your community will see before you commit to anything.
Promote PHapp® to Your Residents.
Share stable PHapp® links, post an active alert, download free multilingual flyers, or embed PHapp® on your website. Everything you need to drive adoption is free.
Access Portal by Hub for Free.
Sign in with your work email, invite your team, and review engagement stats for your community. Advanced workflows such as direct alerting can be added later if your team needs them.
What every agency gets for free
- Review the resident experience — See exactly what your community will see across app, web, and text before you decide how to roll PHapp® out locally.
- Stable guidance links and embed options — Share PHapp® links for the hazards your community faces and keep that guidance on your own website if you want residents to stay there.
- Promotion tools and materials — Access multilingual flyers, graphics, QR-friendly outreach assets, and agency resources that help residents discover PHapp.
- Agency portal access — Sign in with your work email, invite colleagues, and review basic engagement stats and agency resources for your community.
- No contract or setup fee — Agencies can start with the core service without a long procurement process or upfront cost.
When agencies pay for more
- Branding and co-branding — Optional paid support is available for agencies that want a more customized branded experience.
- Expanded analytics and reporting — Agencies that need deeper reporting, program measurement, or more tailored analytics can add that support later.
- Automation and advanced operations — Optional paid services can include more customized workflows, automation, or direct operational support.
- Implementation help — Teams that want a faster rollout or a guided strategy process can choose a paid walkthrough or implementation partnership.
Prefer to Talk with Someone First?
If you want to talk through your use case, rollout plan, stable link strategy, or internal approval questions before starting on your own, request a walkthrough with our team.
A short conversation can help your team understand what is included for free, how PHapp® fits with current alerting, and what optional upgrades exist if you need more support later.
Optional ways to go further
- Learn from peers already using PHapp® — Join a growing network of public health professionals, emergency managers, and community health workers who share practical outreach strategies and lessons learned.
- Shape what comes next — Join the Wehealth® Forum if your team wants to provide feedback, request features, and stay closer to the roadmap.
- Stay prepared year-round — Join the National Preparedness Campaign if seasonal materials and coordinated messaging would help your team.
Join the National Preparedness Campaign.
Optional for agencies that want seasonal themes, ready-to-use multilingual materials, and trusted guidance assets to help their community stay prepared year-round.
Join the Wehealth® Forum.
Optional for teams that want an insider look at how PHapp® is evolving and a closer feedback loop with partners, researchers, and other experts shaping the roadmap.
Agency FAQs
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What do you mean by agencies?
By agencies, we mean public health, emergency services, and other government agencies at the local, state, territorial, and national level.
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Is PHapp® really free forever for agencies?
Yes. Agencies can review PHapp® for their community, embed it on their website, and access the agency portal without a setup fee or contract. Optional paid services are available later only if an agency wants more customization, analytics, automation, or implementation help.
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What is included for free, and what costs extra later?
PHapp® is free for agencies. That includes the resident experience, promotion tools, basic portal access, and agency guidance. Agencies only pay if they choose optional paid services such as deeper analytics, branding, automation, or more tailored implementation support.
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What are the first free steps?
Most agencies start by reviewing PHapp® for their community, choosing the stable links they want to share, deciding whether to embed PHapp® on their website, and then using the agency portal for basic analytics and outreach support.
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Do we have to switch from our current mass notification system?
No. Most agencies use PHapp® alongside their existing alerting tools. The common first step is to let those current alerts point to PHapp® for local guidance, next steps, and multilingual access.
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Do we need a contract or long setup process?
No. PHapp® is designed to be simple to adopt without a long setup process or contract.
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How is PHapp® sustained if core agency access is free?
Free agency access is supported through a mix of grants, public-benefit support, and optional paid services for agencies that want more customization, analytics, automation, or implementation help.
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Are the Wehealth® Forum and National Preparedness Campaign required?
No. They are optional ways to participate more deeply with the broader Wehealth® community. You can use PHapp® for free and join those initiatives later only if they are useful to your team.
Want to talk it through first?
If you would rather walk through the options with a real person, request a short walkthrough focused on your agency, rollout questions, and next step.