SOS 9

This week has been a very interesting; a new program manager was hired for the FRC in Holy Hill and been in triaging at my site this week. His name is Larry, as Larry learned new things about FRC I learn new things as well. Our contact list of often used numbers has been a source of hate for the past 4 weeks so I finally got the motivation to reorganize the list. When volunteers work in the office, hopefully, they would able to direct callers to other agencies who will be able to help. I was told a few weeks back that will be trained on HMIS this week. The training was held at the Volusia/Flagler County Coalition for the Homeless, which was my first time I been there. It was cool to see other groups in the county like the Neighborhood Center, Haven House, and the Star family Shelter, and the Salvation Army are different agencies all work with the Coalition to end homeless in the area. HMIS is a data base that the federal government uses to track homeless services, organization, stats, and people around the country. The data base is confusing and very technical and not user-friendly. The training overall went well, but I wanted to take nap after wards because my brain hurt from all the information. HMIS is very important tool, because this is how the Coalition receives money for the government fund social programs that help end homeless and built better communities. I am starting to get the feeling that I am going to be spending a lot more time in front of a computer.