Who runs the HMIS?
The Missouri Association for Social Welfare (MASW), a citizens’ non-profit organization that has been working for social justice for over one hundred years, applied for and received in 2002 a HUD grant that funded the initial creation of the HMIS. MASW is also referred to as the “Program Administrator” of the HMIS. The HMIS serves the BoS CoC system, which encompasses the 101 “non-entitlement” counties of the state (in effect, the rural counties of Missouri) and will eventually link with the other homelessness information systems in the state. This project developed from MASW’s experience developing and conducting five censuses of homeless shelters and the Missouri Congresses to End Homelessness, which first met in 1998 and began the formal process of project planning. MASW has convened three Congresses to End Homelessness since the first Congress in 1998, most recently in April 2004.
