Our team is delivering a game-changing software solution that greatly improves the ability of dedicated volunteers in the St. Louis community to serve our homeless brothers and sisters. Using client sensitive, analytical software modules, an everyday user can implement and service the needs of our clients in a streamlined and simple manner.

careHud reduces the burden of administrative management by offering a software platform that handles:

Client intake
Bedding and capacity availability
Business Intelligence for decision makers - a data analytics center that integrates with existing HMIS client data

Our long-term vision is to service clientele immediately, exhaust all connected resources in the region, and eliminate duplication of data:

Client Care

Streamlining the "call to comfort" process through real-time information management and business decisioning.

Clients provide initial details via website or phone call and receive immediate vacancy and resource availability responses.

Acuity capture via dynamic questionnaires - medical requirements, special needs, treatment, historical reference and placement.

Dynamic questionnaires are provided to clients which detail program services and opportunities within the community.
On the back-end, responses are extracted into a rules engine to determine client acuity and risk for optimal care / business intelligence.
Dynamic questionnaires are NOT mandatory -they are a tool to help both the client and CoC unit use characteristics to streamline cases.

Client sensitivity and focus through instant vacancy statuses, shelter options and extent of care at given locations.

Built in cell phone and email notifications allow clients to be informed when a specific vacancy, program or care giver becomes available when on-site in the St. Louis area. This design allows specialized care to exist for those who are planning for the worst and not ready to take the step to homeless intake.

CoC Adminstration Management

Automatic CoC center and service provider notification of client intake, referral, and urgency.

Immediately following a client request(s), notification of care type is sent to CoCs in the St. Louis area to ensure speed to comfort and linear awareness between organizations.

Check in/Check out functionality and monitoring allows administrators to control continual intake.

Administrators instantly view available beds, client turnover, and client statuses within their CoC and surrounding CoCs.
Referral checks and responses is also a core feature to ensure the client receives services that are available.

Business Intelligence and Data Analytics provide decision makers with transparent information throughout their organization.

Detailed population demographics, analysis, interactive filtering and dynamic visualizations are improvements built-in for specific information querying and process.

Interoperability between service providers and CoC centers to complete end-to-end servicing for clients to prevent future homelessness.

A central system ensures all CoCs are capable of demand management through use of a central referral and notification systems.

How we built it

We built our solution with the client and St. Louis community outreach programs in mind. Our goal was to create a realistic, user-friendly, and effective platform.

Challenges we ran into

The HMIS data codes provided leaves "gray areas" in our database and affected our BI Center presentation, though we left the numerical data elements provided to prove data extraction on the set.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

As a fellow Marine veteran, our team was proud to serve those who previously served our country along with the manner other individuals struggling in the St. Louis area and beyond..