COLORADO SPRINGS — The Pikes Peak United Way plans to resurrect a photo ID card system that would allow agencies and homeless advocates to track the people they serve, beginning at a small nonprofit in Monument.
In a few weeks, Tri-Lakes Cares will require every person or family seeking its services to use a photo ID emblazoned with a bar code. If successful, United Way will make the program available to other nonprofits across the region later this year — the first attempt to revive a card system in several years.
Already, a group of nonprofits serving the homeless across seven metro Denver counties view the project as a pilot for implementing similar systems in their regions.
“This has been something we’ve been talking about for a while,” said Gary Sanford, the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative’s executive director.
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