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- East Coast, NC (USA)
My new employer is a non-profit that deals with victims of domestic violence, providing an anonymous telephone hotline, a women's shelter, and tons of social services related to relocating and helping battered women escape their situations and become independent.
They are still using paper to track their clients!!!
Specifically, they need a database that will track clients/contact info/next of kin/emergency contacts, etc. but the unusual bit is it also needs to store/track their time in our women's shelter, their court dates, info about the defendants in the their court cases, resources of ours that they are allotted a certain amount of (such as a free therapist appointments, educational classes, etc.) and several other such social work appointments. And it needs the ability to generate custom reports based on any data, Ex. I may need a report on every client currently staying in our shelter, of from a specified date range.
Naturally it needs to have multi-user access in realtime, and would be shared on a network.
Free is best, it is a non-profit; but a reasonable priced app may be worth looking into as well.
I'm not up to designing my own database, or a client to access it! I was hoping someone knew of something already done for non-profits of this type.
My state did have a program and training at one point in time, that they wanted to implement a state-wide database for non-profits of this type - but they have been putting it off for 5+ years now and looks like it has been cancelled.
Anyone have any ideas?
They are still using paper to track their clients!!!
Specifically, they need a database that will track clients/contact info/next of kin/emergency contacts, etc. but the unusual bit is it also needs to store/track their time in our women's shelter, their court dates, info about the defendants in the their court cases, resources of ours that they are allotted a certain amount of (such as a free therapist appointments, educational classes, etc.) and several other such social work appointments. And it needs the ability to generate custom reports based on any data, Ex. I may need a report on every client currently staying in our shelter, of from a specified date range.
Naturally it needs to have multi-user access in realtime, and would be shared on a network.
Free is best, it is a non-profit; but a reasonable priced app may be worth looking into as well.
I'm not up to designing my own database, or a client to access it! I was hoping someone knew of something already done for non-profits of this type.
My state did have a program and training at one point in time, that they wanted to implement a state-wide database for non-profits of this type - but they have been putting it off for 5+ years now and looks like it has been cancelled.
Anyone have any ideas?
