Homeless Reach


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Homeless Reach
Designed for Care Givers, this app quickly and accurately finds resources for aiding in the care of the homeless based on a current location or partial address. This app was developed for the VA Project REACH Challenge - http://reachthehomeless.challenge.gov/
Version 1.0 offers:
1) Searchable information on Homeless Shelters and Bed Availability (Bed Data available for NJ and CoCs providing access through their HMIS systems)
2) Transportation information including nearby Bus and Train stops
3) Food Resources including Food Banks and Soups Kitchens
4) Legal Resources based on Veteran Administration Accredited lawyers
5) Health and Mental Care facilities from data supplied by SAMSHA
6) VA Facility information
7) Hotline information for national help and local assistance phone numbers
8) Employment Information – including Employment Assistance resources and an aggregated search capability of Jobs across NRD, CareerBuilder, Indeed, SimplyHired
9) Alert and Push Notification capability – Allowing the Care Giver to subscribe to and be notified when beds are available at selected shelters.
10) Detailed information about the place such as links to their websites, phone numbers, contact information, email addresses when the information is available.

Advanced Features:
1) Searching for resources can be done by current location or by full or partial address (state, city, zip)
2) Can search for a specific resource by name using the name search field
3) Can search for resources within a given radius of current location or entered address
4) Search criteria allows a care giver to quickly narrow the results to be specific to the needs of the person seeking help. Such as searching for a specific type of shelter bed, only finding shelters with availability, searching for specific shelter types.
5) Ability to load the web pages from the app (when information is available)
6) Ability to place phone calls to the places (when information is available)
7) Ability to email contacts (when information is available)
8) Get directions to a returned resource or place based on the starting search address or current location

Universal App supporting both iPhone , iPad and updated to support enhanced iPhone 5 screen and iOS 6.0