Homeless Management (HMIS) Clients

MISSISSIPPI -- Ms. Callie Cole, Executive Director Multi-County Community Service Agency, Inc.: "…I consider the agency to be successful when clients receive GEDs, gain better employment and parenting skills, purchase homes for the first time, volunteers deliver hot meals to home bound senior citizens, Foster Grandparents work with children with special needs, troubled youths take a new look on life, clients make plans on what they want to accomplish i.e. set goals and work to achieve them and clients become totally self-sufficient……"

NEW JERSEY -- The New Jersey Statewide HMIS Collaborative, headed by the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency in collaboration with its State partners DCA and DHS as well as 17 County governments and their local homeless service providers, have worked diligently over the past year in an effort to meet a recent HUD initiative requiring local communities to collect data on the homeless individuals and families they serve. There are over 200 providers from Camden, Hudson, Ocean, Passaic, Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren counties.

NEW JERSEY -- The Bergen County Department Of Human Services is charged with the responsibilities of: assessing the human services needs of the county’s most vulnerable residents, managing resources to meet the needs, coordinating a system for service delivery, and ensuring access to quality services.

NEW YORK -- CARES is currently working in collaboration with homeless service programs in Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Saratoga, Columbia, Greene, Points North Counties to develop a region-wide Homeless Management Information System. This data system will provide an unduplicated count of homeless persons, a demographic profile, and the cause of their homelessness. Information gathered through this system will provide valuable information about the nature and scope of homelessness in the Capital Region.

NEW YORK -- The Mid-Hudson Valley HMIS is a collaboration of agencies in Duchess, Ulster and Orange counties in upstate New York.

NEW YORK -- The Long Island Coalition for the Homeless (LICH) is a not for profit organization whose mission is to reduce homelessness on Long Island. LICH was founded in 1988 as an advocacy and information/referral organization to help homeless individuals and families throughout Long Island. Since that time, LICH has grown to include over 125 member agencies and organizations, as well as approximately 100 individual members.

NEW YORK -- The mission of the Office of Community Development is to serve the people of Rockland County by obtaining federal and state grants to provide affordable housing and improve the quality of life to low and moderate income residents in Rockland in an ethical, courteous, timely and cost-effective manner. Rockland County is using AWARDS HMIS to assist a coalition of agencies in tracking homeless people in the county.

SOUTH CAROLINA -- Charleston and Low Country Continuum of Care. The mission of Crisis Ministries is to meet the immediate needs of those who are hungry and homeless, to strive to break the cycles of hunger and homelessness and to encourage others to do the same.