Herluma (2024)
Herluma 2024 is the continuation of a 2022 project that identified 2 key communication deficiencies between homeless shelters in Victoria: 1) that emergency shelters, when full, couldn’t direct individuals experiencing homelessness to available shelters because they didn’t have live bed availability data, and 2) lack of coordination between emergency and transitional shelters complicated their ability to transfer individuals into appropriate transitional housing. Herluma aims to consolidate shelters in Victoria to a unified online system that helps shelters manage their waitlists and logbooks and streamlines the transfer process, with the end goal of progressing more individuals from emergency into transitional housing. This project is being carried out with the help of Parker DeBruyne.
Contact the team at inspire.herluma@gmail.com
TEAM MEMBERS
Dale Foerster
4th Year Software Engineering Student
Stephanie Askewe
3rd Year Electrical Engineering Student
Michelle Rosenthal
4th Year Computer Science Student
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
The Alliance to End Homelessness in the Capital Region (AEHCR), formerly The Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness (GVCEH), is a regional backbone organization that, in collaboration with the homelessness sector in the Greater Victoria region, works towards a mission of ensuring there is adequate and safe housing, shelters, support, and services for everyone facing homelessness.
PROJECT JOURNEY
Refinements and Recognition
In previous sprints, we’ve been gathering feedback through back and forth emails with the manager over at VNFC, the...
Feedback and Frustration
Things did not go according to plan in this sprint. In order to begin soliciting and implementing feedback, we needed...
Building Morale and Momentum
This was an optimistic sprint. We met with two shelters, Victoria Native Friendship Centre (VNFC) and Sandy Merriman...