NEO-RHYMIS

Welcome to the National Extranet Optimized Runaway and Homeless Youth Management Information System (NEO-RHYMIS). The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) recently streamlined its Runaway and Homeless Youth Management Information System (RHYMIS) to enhance data reporting by its grantee agencies. The new system, known as RHYMIS LITE, has many fewer data elements, definitions, and look up features. This promotes a more efficient system.

Through RHYMIS LITE, FYSB is able to collect and report information on the young people served by its grantee agencies, including youth demographics, services provided, and youth status at exit from the FYSB-funded programs (Basic Center, Transitional Living, and Street Outreach).

The NEO-RHYMIS data are cited in FYSB's Reports to Congress, in annual performance reports required by the Government Performance and Results Act, in hearings and testimony, and in reports by others interested in youth issues, such as the media, national resource organizations, and researchers. Many FYSB grantees also share RHYMIS data locally with State or municipal agencies, funding sources, legislative authorities, advocates, and others who care about young people.

The NEO-RHYMIS provides the user community and other interested parties with the ability to display, and create in some instances, standard/adhoc reports of data collected nationally by the FYSB grantees in RHYMIS LITE for their use. The standard reports also include graphical representations of the selected data.

Privacy Statement:

The data in this online system are complete down to the level of the community-based organizations funded by FYSB. Anonymous data on approximately 80,000 individual youth served by the organizations nationwide are also available, but there are a few limitations on use involving privacy issues. If you are interested in more detailed research or have questions that can only be answered by individual youth data, contact the RHYMIS Hotline at 1-888-749-6474. We will share it with you subject to certain assurances on your part.