# Advancing Quality Lives

> A public service-navigation directory for the Kansas City metro, with linked public records,
> service guides and access steps. Information review dates do not establish current availability.

## Start here

- [Machine directory entry](https://advancingqualitylives.org/directory/v2/index.json): Small manifest linking exact category slices and all entity collections. Start here, choose a relevant category or record type, then retrieve the selected detail records.
- [Directory navigation guide](https://advancingqualitylives.org/directory/v2/guide.md): Record types, knowledge states, evidence scope and retrieval examples.
- [Category vocabulary](https://advancingqualitylives.org/directory/v2/categories.json): Exact classifications already present in the resource summaries. Category membership identifies discovery candidates; it does not determine eligibility.
- [Machine directory schema](https://advancingqualitylives.org/schemas/machine-directory-v2.json): Versioned structure and explicit knowledge states.

Resource summaries, explicit organization offerings, locations and general waiver guides are
distinct record types. A waiver guide does not establish that a named provider accepts that waiver.
Missing or unestablished criteria are not a statement of eligibility or unrestricted access.
The directory is served as static documents; arbitrary query-string filtering is not supported.
Use the linked slices and individual records. Do not send personal case histories to this website.

The records identify the content edition and information-review date.
The public projection says published when prepared for public delivery; that field is
not an assertion of provider endorsement, individual eligibility or real-time availability.

## Public sources and human navigation

- [Resource finder](https://advancingqualitylives.org/#finder): Human navigation and search.
- [Record methodology](https://advancingqualitylives.org/method): How public information is checked.

## Optional

- [Legacy bulk directory](https://advancingqualitylives.org/resources.json): Full public resource summaries, organization service guides and waiver catalog. Useful for bulk processing; larger than targeted retrieval.
- [Legacy resource index](https://advancingqualitylives.org/directory/index.json): Original resource-summary index with individual JSON and Markdown links.
- [Resource v1 schema](https://advancingqualitylives.org/schemas/resource-v1.json): Original summary contract.

Important: Information changes. Confirm current availability, eligibility, cost, and referral
requirements directly with the organization. Do not infer individual eligibility from this
directory. This website is not an emergency service.