Welcome Home!

Thank you for assisting The Welcome Home Collaborative with its mission to provide transitional housing for the homeless, working poor and struggling families, who are seeking a second chance in life to successfully transition from dependency to independency.

This open source database management program (the Welcome Home DB, or WHDB) supports the data collection and management of many aspects of a Transitional Housing Program.

Features

  • The Application Process: you can add applications, upload relavent forms, documents, and images, and monitor progress through the application phases.
  • Assessments
  • Life Plans
  • Life Coach Features
  • Financial Management of Participation Fees
  • Incident Reports
  • Various Participant Features, including:
    • Session Reports
    • Emergency, Next-of-Kin, and other contacts
    • Residence history
    • Balance sheet of participant charges and payments
    • A Media catalog for each participant, including documents and images
    • A contact log
  • User-configurable features and lists, including:
    • Accounting / Charges
    • Accounting / Payments
    • Activity Type
    • Application Status
    • Appointment Type
    • Race/Ethnicity
    • Gender Identification
    • Goals (long term)
    • Goals (Strategies/Steps)
    • Incident Report Type
    • Organization Type
    • Fully configurable Assessments
    • Participant Locations with a configurable participant fee structure

User Interface

Navigation

You will be able to navigate through the various features of the WHDB by clicking on the menu selections near the top of the screen:

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Some menu times expand into additional links:

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You can also click on the top-level menu item to see a layout of the links:

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Here is an example of the Main Navigation Page for Reports:

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Bread Crumbs

Many screens allow you to see the path you've taken to get to a certain feature. You can click on the bread crumb links to return to an earlier screen.

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Common Icons

These helpful icons will help you navigate the WHDB:

 viewIcon Magnifying Glass  Allows you to see details of a record
 edit  Pencil Edit record
 delete02   Delete record (you will be prompted for confirmation first)
 recordAdd    Add a new record
 select    Select an item from search results
 activate inactive03   Activate/Inactivate Record
 plusMinusPlus
 plusMinusMinus		    Expand / Collapse section
 pdfIcon    View PDF report
 hoh 05    Head of Household



Technical Information

The WHDB is a free, open-source database application, designed under the leadership and direction of Pastor John Suguitan of Prince Of Peace Lutheran Church (https://poplcmscinci.org/index.html) of Cincinnati, Ohio, and his Welcome Home Collaboration team.

The application is written in PHP, using a mySQL database and a CodeIgnitor 3 framework.

It is intended to be run on a web server under a secure certificate.