CTA offers a unique combination of technical expertise, government regulatory knowledge and non-profit understanding to build systems collaboratively with communities and service agencies to prevent homelessness.

Making an Impact – In 2010, in Santa Clara County,

• Over 75,000 clients received assistance from service providing agencies due to the HMIS solution CTA manages and maintains.
• Nearly 82,000 searches for subsidized housing and safety net services were completed due to online database services from CTA.
• Over 43,000 downloads helped CalWORK’s students maintain program eligibility using the distance-learning solution designed by CTA, allowing Santa Clara County to be one of the only three counties to meet performance requirements in California.
• Nearly 162,000 clients were reported with CTA’s data warehousing solution, allowing for analysis of service delivery and client movement across 11 Bay Area Counties.
• Over 8,000 callers were connected to homeless shelters.

Featured Projects

• Napa County: HMIS HPRP and SHP assistance.  Database, report writing, HMIS training and Technical Assistance all provided.
• Sacramento: HUD Technical Assistance in contract with HomeBase: Consultation and development of HMIS Policies and Procedures, development of Technology Committee, transition plan and committee responsibilities as CoC and HMIS management responsibility move from the County to an independent non-profit.
• Health Trust: Developing a web interface and customized reports specific to Health Trust’s site housing needs in order to interact with HMIS and eliminate the requirement to enter information into and report from three separate databases.
• Inn Vision: Create customizations and develop reports in HMIS.  Make recommendations that will improve data collection, allowing Inn Vision to implement sound practices to evaluate program effectiveness and client outcomes.