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- EIN 84-1359401
- (303) 295-1772
- 711 Park Ave W Ste 320 Denver CO 80205 USA
- http://mdhi.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Homeless & Housing, Homeless Centers, Human Services
Mission: The mission of metropolitan denver homeless initiative (mdhi) is to implement a comprehensive homeless housing and service continuum of care (coc) system in the 7-county metropolitan region surrounding denver. A continuum of care is a regional system for helping people who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness by ensuring that appropriate housing and services are available. The metropolitan denver continuum of care includes prevention, outreach and assessment, emergency shelter, transitional housing, supportive services, permanent supportive housing and permanent housing. Mdhi works closely with each county in its continuum (adams, arapahoe, boulder, broomfield, denver, douglas, and jefferson) to ensure that planning groups have the resources and support they need to move forward with planning and implementation of strategies to end homelessness.
Programs: Mdhi leads the process for the annual hud coc nofa application. Each year mdhi convenes a series of meetings for metropolitan stakeholders to identify local service gaps and metropolitan homeless priorities. Identified priorities are used to develop a comprehensive application to the u. S. Department of housing and urban development (hud). Since its inception, mdhi has brought in over $200 million in grants for the denver metropolitan area. Mdhi conducts a point in time survey during the last week of january and then issues a report which provides the community with current information on the status of homelessness in the denver metropolitan area. The most recent point in time survey found that on january 27, 2014, there were 5,812 homeless men, women and children and 2,230 people at-risk of homelessness in metropolitan denver. Mdhi oversees the implementation of the homeless management information system (hmis) for the seven county denver metro region. Hmis utilizes a computerized data collection tool designed to capture client-level information over a period of time. Hmis collects information on the characteristics and service needs of persons experiencing homelessness, or who are at risk of becoming homeless. It incorporates a set of policies and procedures around client confidentiality, data collection, computer entry, and reporting. Hmis is designed to aggregate client-level data to generate unduplicated county of clients served in the community. By enrolling homeless service providers into hmis, it is our goal to utilize hmis to benefit the community.