Case Study: Committee On The Shelterless achieves faster mobile data collection and improved caseworker productivity with Alpha Software

Management and Reporting and Data Collection App Uses Tablets to Help Break the Cycle of Homelessness

The Committee on the Shelterless (COTS) in Petaluma, California, is a nonprofit that prevents and breaks the cycle of homelessness through shelters, housing, and outreach. As COTS shifted to a Housing First model, caseworkers needed tablet-based field apps to meet HUD data-collection and HMIS integration requirements and to replace desktop-only processes that slowed outreach and reporting.

COTS selected Alpha Anywhere to build tablet and smartphone apps with mobile forms, GPS and image capture, automatic travel/time logging, offline sync, and HMIS/HUD compliance—apps that non-developers can maintain. The result: faster, more accurate field data collection, greatly reduced paperwork, streamlined reporting and accounting integration, more time for direct client services, and increased community engagement.

Committee On The Shelterless

Bill Hess

Director of Information Services