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This website will give you a little information about who I am and what I’m learning. Just in case you were curious, I built the website with Wordpress, pluggins, and some hacking.

A Little About Me

Fran is passionate about improving social service delivery, facilitating diverse groups to arrive at the right information technology solution. Fran provides technical assistance for hardware purchasing, software usability, program development and management, database design, and direct service delivery. At Canavan Associates she is consulting on the Disaster Technical Assistance Project sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Her experience and skills are well suited to the project perfectly. She spent five years at VIA LINK developing and providing administrative oversight on a collaborative client and resource management system for 60 Greater New Orleans homeless service agencies.

Presentations

“HMIS 101: Introduction to the World of HMIS” National Human Services Data Consortium Fall Conference, October 2009, Providence, RI.

“Roles and Responsibilities for HMIS Oversight and Management” US Department of Housing and Urban Development, National HMIS Training, September 2008, Atlanta, GA

“Uses of HMIS to Support Disaster Recovery-Lessons Learned from Katrina/Rita” US Department of Housing and Urban Development, HMIS Conference, September 18, 2006, Denver, CO.

“Calling 2-1-1 in Disaster & Recovery” Keynote Speaker, Virginia Alliance of Information and Referral Systems Annual Conference, May 17, 2006, Fredericksburg, VA