In 2002, the Homeless Alliance was awarded a major federal grant to implement a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) known as the Buffalo Area Services Network (BAS-Net). The system enables homeless housing and service providers to enter client data into a secure web-accessible electronic database, streamlining the client intake process, improving awareness of client needs, increasing organizational reporting capacity, and making community-wide data about homelessness readily available.
In 2002, the Homeless Alliance was awarded a major federal grant to implement a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) known as the Buffalo Area Services Network (BAS-Net). The system enables homeless housing and service providers to enter client data into a secure web-accessible electronic database, streamlining the client intake process, improving awareness of client needs, increasing organizational reporting capacity, and making community-wide data about homelessness readily available.
In 2002, the Homeless Alliance was awarded a major federal grant to implement a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) known as the Buffalo Area Services Network (BAS-Net). The system enables homeless housing and service providers to enter client data into a secure web-accessible electronic database, streamlining the client intake process, improving awareness of client needs, increasing organizational reporting capacity, and making community-wide data about homelessness readily available.
In 2002, the Homeless Alliance was awarded a major federal grant to implement a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) known as the Buffalo Area Services Network (BAS-Net). The system enables homeless housing and service providers to enter client data into a secure web-accessible electronic database, streamlining the client intake process, improving awareness of client needs, increasing organizational reporting capacity, and making community-wide data about homelessness readily available.
In 2002, the Homeless Alliance was awarded a major federal grant to implement a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) known as the Buffalo Area Services Network (BAS-Net). The system enables homeless housing and service providers to enter client data into a secure web-accessible electronic database, streamlining the client intake process, improving awareness of client needs, increasing organizational reporting capacity, and making community-wide data about homelessness readily available.
In 2002, the Homeless Alliance was awarded a major federal grant to implement a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) known as the Buffalo Area Services Network (BAS-Net). The system enables homeless housing and service providers to enter client data into a secure web-accessible electronic database, streamlining the client intake process, improving awareness of client needs, increasing organizational reporting capacity, and making community-wide data about homelessness readily available.
In 2002, the Homeless Alliance was awarded a major federal grant to implement a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) known as the Buffalo Area Services Network (BAS-Net). The system enables homeless housing and service providers to enter client data into a secure web-accessible electronic database, streamlining the client intake process, improving awareness of client needs, increasing organizational reporting capacity, and making community-wide data about homelessness readily available.
In 2002, the Homeless Alliance was awarded a major federal grant to implement a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) known as the Buffalo Area Services Network (BAS-Net). The system enables homeless housing and service providers to enter client data into a secure web-accessible electronic database, streamlining the client intake process, improving awareness of client needs, increasing organizational reporting capacity, and making community-wide data about homelessness readily available.
In 2002, the Homeless Alliance was awarded a major federal grant to implement a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) known as the Buffalo Area Services Network (BAS-Net). The system enables homeless housing and service providers to enter client data into a secure web-accessible electronic database, streamlining the client intake process, improving awareness of client needs, increasing organizational reporting capacity, and making community-wide data about homelessness readily available.
Some of the benefits of the BAS-Net System include:
- For Clients:
- An Opportunity to conduct intakes and life histories only once.
- Illustrates that service providers consider the client’s time valuable, ensuring client dignity.
- Makes it possible to coordinate multiple services and streamline referrals to increase efficiency.
- For Service Providers:
- Provides real-time information about available services.
- Decreases duplicative client intakes.
- Generates data reports for local use to meet state and federal funding requirements.
- Facilitates the coordination of services internally and externally with other agencies and programs.
- Facilitates the coordinator of services internally and externally with other agencies and programs.
- For the Community:
- Helps to define and understand the extent of homelessness through Buffalo and Erie County.
- Allows for thorough evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions, programs and specific services.
- Offers advocates and local, state and federal legislator’s data and information about the local homeless population.
Please note: Any agency whose primary function is to provide housing to homeless persons and is funded by either Continuum of Care should be participating in BAS-NET. The Homeless Alliance, through a HUD-funded grant, will provide user licenses (number to be determined by program size and staff) to these agencies. Other agencies will be permitted to participate in BAS-Net but are required to pay for their own user licenses. Examples of such agencies are organizations that do not receive HUD funding and programs that may serve homeless people but whose primary function is to serve other populations.
For more information about BAS-Net, contact Joelle Ruettimann, HMIS BAS-Net Coordinator.
