Canopy
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Canopy is an open-source integrated eligibility system built by the Georgia Department of Human Services, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3).
Canopy administers eligibility and enrollment for:
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SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)
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TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)
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Medicaid and CHIP
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CAPS (Child Care Assistance Program)
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WIC (Women, Infants, and Children)
Key Documents
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Why Canopy? — the political, legal, and technical rationale
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Service Catalog — every service, its port, database, and canonical docs
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ADR-001 — program service isolation
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ADR-002 — black-box determination contract
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ADR-003 — ruleset as data
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ADR-004 — legally-scoped data tenancy
Relationship to CRAIG
Canopy is a companion project to CRAIG — Georgia DHS’s open-source CCWIS platform for child welfare case management. They share infrastructure patterns, coding conventions, deployment tooling, and licensing. They do not share databases or domain models.