SUCCURRO

A curated, source-anchored, hyper-local dataset of help and support services across the United States — mutual-aid meetings (AA, NA, SMART, ACA and more), NAMI affiliates and peer support, shelters and housing assistance, food banks and pantries, veteran services, LGBTQ+ centers, crisis lines, free clinics, legal aid — resolvable down to the city and town level, plus a static Astro site that makes it searchable by location and need.

Live site: succurro.org · roughly 260,000 records — organizations, service locations, and recurring meetings — across 32,307 US places, every one citing its source and carrying the date it was last verified.

Succurro (Latin): to run to the aid of, to help.

Citing / releases

Tagged releases are archived on Zenodo with a DOI; publish/export_release.py builds the citable bundle (JSONL + an Open Referral HSDS 3.0 export + schema + statistics + SHA256SUMS). See publish/DATASHEET.md for the datasheet (Gebru et al. framework), docs/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md for the release gate, and CITATION.cff for how to cite.

Design

Same family skeleton as JUDGMENT, TOCSIN, and AUSPEX:

• sources/ — raw downloads and scrape caches. Gitignored, regenerable, never redistributed.
• data/ — the committed dataset. One YAML file per record, sharded by state and city. Deterministic: same sources + same curated inputs ⇒ identical YAML. Never hand-edit generated records; fix the pipeline or the curated inputs and rebuild.
• pipeline/ — Python (stdlib + PyYAML) module CLIs: python3 -m pipeline.<name>. One module per source, each with on-disk caching, polite throttling, and loud payload validation.
• site/ — static Astro site reading ../data at build time. Search via Pagefind plus a build-time JSON index for location/category faceting.

Core rules inherited from the family:

• No source, no ship. Every record carries a sources: list pointing at first-class source records (URL, archive URL, retrieval date).
• Freshness is a first-class field. Every operational record carries a verified: stamp; the validator flags staleness. A wrong phone number in a crisis directory is a safety issue, not a cosmetic one.
• Stable slugs forever. Corrections add aliases; ids never change.
• Absent means absent. Omit fields the source didn't provide; never write null.
• Dates are plain strings YYYY-MM-DD. Enumerated fields are kebab-case tokens checked against data/taxonomy/.

Layout

data/
  meta.yaml                     dataset version, counts, coverage
  taxonomy/services.yaml        controlled service-category taxonomy
  places/<state>.yaml           place registry: every city/town, Census-derived
  orgs/<state>/<slug>.yaml      organizations
  sites/<state>/<place>/<slug>.yaml    physical locations
  meetings/<state>/<place>/<slug>.yaml recurring meetings/groups
  sources/<publisher>/<slug>.yaml      first-class source records
docs/
  data-model.md                 the schema reference
  sources.md                    source registry (status: in-use / planned / tested)
  roadmap.md                    phased build plan
schemas/succurro.schema.json    JSON Schema conformance gate
pipeline/                       ETL modules

Running

make help          # list targets
make places        # build the national place registry (Census gazetteer)
make verify        # validation gate (schema conformance + referential integrity)
make install-hooks # pre-commit gate on data/ changes

License

Code is MIT (LICENSE). The dataset is CC BY-NC 4.0, with rights layered per source — see DATA-RIGHTS.md.