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CauseWork HMIS · Available now

A complete HMIS.
Free to Delaware.

CauseWork is making its independent Homeless Management Information System available to the Delaware Continuum of Care and every authorized participating Delaware nonprofit at no licensing cost—without exception.

No seats.No provider tax.No hostage data.
One public-interest offer

Every provider gets a door in.

A nonprofit should never be excluded from Delaware's homelessness-response system because it cannot afford another software seat.

CauseWork HMIS is available to the Delaware CoC and every authorized participating provider—including organizations that receive no HUD homelessness funding. Participation is not conditioned on buying CauseWorkHub, subscribing to another service, or limiting access to a small number of employees.

The HMIS belongs to the community. The data belongs under community governance.
Built around the work

Record services once.
Use the information everywhere it is required.

01

Community HMIS

Authorized providers coordinate services, manage referrals, document program activity, protect sensitive records, and prepare required information in one governed community system.

02

HUD-ready reporting foundation

CauseWork HMIS is structured around standardized data, controlled exports, complete audit history, data quality, and the reporting discipline a CoC needs.

03

Unlimited participation

More legitimate users and providers create a more complete view of community need. Adding a person who needs access never creates another software charge.

Serious public infrastructure

A dedicated HMIS architecture.

CauseWork already built the difficult operational foundation. CauseWork HMIS applies that foundation to HUD’s standards in a dedicated, independently secured application.

APPLICATION COREASP.NET Core 10 LTS

A strongly typed, enterprise-grade application boundary with policy-based authorization, secure data protection, and long-term security servicing.

DATA CONTROLDedicated PostgreSQL

Delaware receives an isolated database, row-level security, encrypted connections, protected backups, and no commingling with another CoC.

IDENTITYZero-trust access

Mandatory MFA, default-deny permissions, provider and program boundaries, short sessions, and step-up authentication for consequential actions.

EVIDENCEImmutable audit history

Every view, edit, disclosure, merge, import, export, and administrative decision produces accountable evidence.

INTEROPERABILITYHUD standards-native

FY 2026 data structures, automated validation, API-first exchange, and controlled HUD CSV import and export are part of the core—not an afterthought.

DEPLOYMENTSigned and reproducible

Containerized releases, infrastructure as code, managed encryption keys, dependency scanning, and independently tested production builds.

DELAWARE'S CURRENT WELLSKY MODEL

Legacy vendor economics

Commercial access is rationed through paid user licenses, while participating organizations depend on the incumbent for configuration, portability, and change.

Per-seatVendor-controlledParticipation costs more
CAUSEWORK HMIS

Modern community infrastructure

A dedicated, standards-native system built for unlimited authorized participation, continuous portability, auditable governance, and community control.

API-firstZero trustFree without exception
The decision

Stop paying for less participation.

Per-user pricing does not merely increase cost. It determines who is allowed to contribute to the community's understanding of homelessness.

When publicly funded and unfunded providers must ration access by employee, the CoC receives a narrower view of the people, services, handoffs, unmet needs, and capacity shaping the system.

CauseWork HMIS removes that artificial barrier. Delaware can include every authorized provider without creating another license invoice.

PER-USER MODEL

Pay to participate

  • Costs rise with every authorized user
  • Smaller and unfunded providers face barriers
  • Operational knowledge remains fragmented
  • Data portability depends on the vendor
CAUSEWORK HMIS

Belong to the system

  • Unlimited authorized users
  • Every legitimate provider gets a door in
  • Community-governed information
  • Permanent, usable data portability
One free HMIS · Two Delaware pathways

Replace the expense—or keep paying while nonprofits stop paying.

CauseWork HMIS removes the software barrier under either decision.

01THE RESPONSIBLE CHOICE

Use CauseWork HMIS as Delaware's community system.

The Delaware CoC receives a complete HMIS with unlimited authorized providers and users at no software licensing cost.

  • No WellSky software expense
  • No nonprofit participation fees
  • Community-governed infrastructure
  • Public funding can support administration, security, data quality, training, and direct services
02IF DELAWARE KEEPS WELLSKY

Let nonprofits work free and export to Delaware CMIS.

Participating nonprofits use the free CauseWork HMIS, which validates their required information and produces HUD-standard HMIS exports for transmission into Delaware's designated WellSky CMIS.

  • No paid CauseWorkHub subscription
  • No need for every employee to work in WellSky
  • Standards-based transfer into the designated HMIS
  • Rejected records return for correction and resubmission
Free CauseWork HMISNonprofit records the work
ValidateHUD-standard export
Delaware CMISRequired data reaches WellSky
HUD-STANDARD MIGRATION

Migration does not have to become a multiyear project.

HUD’s HMIS CSV specification supplies the common exchange format. CauseWork can ingest the incumbent export, validate every record, reconcile required reports, and move Delaware through a controlled cutover rapidly.

View HUD’s HMIS CSV specification →
01Export02Validate03Reconcile04Cut over

The technical pathway can move quickly. Final timing follows the quality of the incumbent export and the CoC’s approval—not vendor delay.

CauseWork HMIS removes the cost. If Delaware chooses to continue spending the money, that choice should not be imposed on the nonprofits already doing the work.
CCCI · Community intelligence

HMIS records homelessness services. CCCI reveals the conditions surrounding them.

Every institution sees part of the community. CCCI helps decision-makers see the pattern.

Schools may see housing instability through attendance and student needs. Police may see increasing crisis calls. Hospitals may see preventable emergency use. Nonprofits may see waitlists grow while capacity falls. Housing agencies may see displacement accelerate.

Community Conditions and Capacity Intelligence connects legally governed, privacy-protected signals to show pressure, direction, capacity, and likely consequences—so leaders can act before separate warning signs become a public crisis.

Explore the CCCI Proving Ground
SchoolsStudent and family pressure
Public safetyChanging conditions
CCCIPressureDirectionCapacity
HealthDemand across systems
NonprofitsFrontline capacity
CauseWork EPIT™ · Every Point-in-Time Community Intelligence

Stop making year-round decisions from one night of incomplete data.

PIT counts one night. CauseWork EPIT reveals every point in time.

PIT · REQUIRED SNAPSHOT

Who could be counted that night?

The annual Point-in-Time count remains a required federal measure. But one night cannot continuously reveal doubled-up families, changing school instability, providers outside CMIS, unsuccessful referrals, motel placements, rising turnaways, or capacity disappearing between reports.

One night · Narrow definition · Retrospective
EPIT · CONTINUOUS INTELLIGENCE

What is happening across the community now?

CauseWork HMIS records governed homelessness services. CCCI connects approved, privacy-protected signals from schools, nonprofits, healthcare, public safety, housing, and other institutions. EPIT turns those signals into a continuously updated view of pressure, direction, capacity, and likely consequences.

Every day · Multiple systems · Decision-ready
2026 Delaware PITUnsheltered people were not counted.

The rescheduled statewide count included sheltered homelessness only, preventing a valid comparison of total homelessness with prior years.

Delaware's own CMIS assessmentThe system does not see everyone.

HAD identified limited unsheltered information and exclusions involving nonparticipating agencies, certain motel placements, Sunday Breakfast Mission, and victim-service programs.

The operating consequenceIncomplete visibility produces incomplete decisions.

Free participation expands HMIS coverage. EPIT adds governed signals from outside the homelessness system so leaders can see conditions the annual count cannot.

EPIT does not replace the legally required PIT count. It prevents one incomplete annual snapshot from being mistaken for the complete condition of the community.

Privacy by design

Share the signal.
Protect the person.

What CCCI receives

Approved, privacy-protected community signals and legally authorized aggregates showing changing need, service pressure, available capacity, and outcomes.

What stays protected

Student names, medical records, police narratives, criminal histories, and identifiable HMIS case records remain inside the appropriate protected system.

Who remains in control

Each contributor controls its source records. Community governance defines approved measures, purposes, access, retention, suppression, and disclosure.

Two separate choices

Free HMIS is not a sales condition.

No Delaware provider has to purchase CauseWorkHub to participate in the community HMIS.

Organizations that want a complete nonprofit operating system may separately choose CauseWorkHub for people, programs, cases, HR, grants, funding, governance, files, forms, communications, evidence, and outcomes.

That choice never determines whether an authorized provider can access HMIS, contribute approved CCCI signals, coordinate services, report its work, receive support, or retrieve its data.

The public-interest question

If Delaware can remove the software barrier, why should the barrier continue?

Delaware already invests public resources in homelessness coordination and HMIS administration. CauseWork is prepared to eliminate software licensing and per-user participation charges while expanding provider participation, community control, and decision intelligence.

More providers+More complete signals+Community governance=Better decisions
Available now for Delaware

Give every provider a door in—and give decision-makers the view they have been missing.

CauseWork HMIS is available to the Delaware Continuum of Care and every authorized participating Delaware nonprofit at no licensing cost, without exception.

Request the Delaware HMIS demonstrationFree means free: no CoC software license, per-user fee, or provider participation fee.
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