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resources for HMIS in Marin County What is HMIS? The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants about $1.2 billion annually in homelessness-related funds. (In Marin County, the 2006 award was almost $2.2 million.) Starting in 2004, HUD has required recipients of these funds to collect electronic data on their homeless clients. HUD calls such a data collection system "HMIS" (for "Homelessness Management Information System"). It collects demographic information on homeless people served, as well as the exact dates that they enter and exit service programs. What is Sparrow? Sparrow, the HMIS software system used in Marin, was developed by Quicksilver Consulting. Sparrow was created to provide the quickest, simplest approach to meeting HUD's published HMIS standards. Sparrow is open source software and is free for any non-commercial use. Download forms for Marin County, California
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have you heard...? February 2007: Quicksilver releases Sparrow 3.12, a free HMIS (Homeless Management Information System) database application |
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