For Government & Agencies
One coordinated response for the people you already serve.
Wandering and crisis cut across every system you run: disability services, behavioral health, aging services, schools, and public safety. DENNIS gives Community Services Boards, public agencies, and care providers one coordination layer, so the community is alerted and activated in real time, not after too much time has passed.
The scale of the need
The families you serve are carrying this mostly on their own.
Today's response is serial
Each step waits on the last, while the person keeps moving.
Without a coordination layer
- A caregiver notices someone is gone and searches alone first.
- A call is made, and responders arrive with no profile.
- Neighbors who want to help do not know where to look, or improvise.
- Information about the person lives in a case file nobody on scene can see.
With DENNIS
- Authorized staff or the family start an alert in seconds.
- Screened neighbors nearby are alerted at once and sent to the highest-risk places first.
- Responders whose agency uses DENNIS see the profile and can take command.
- Every alert leaves a record for incident reporting and licensing.
For Community Services Boards, providers, and facilities
Enroll the people in your care. Start an alert in seconds.
Group homes, memory care communities, day programs, residential providers, and CSB case management teams get an organization account. The facility is recorded as the initiator, and the search runs exactly as it does for a family: routing, containment, volunteers, and responder handoff.
A memory care facility's dashboard with enrolled residents. Sample data.
Enrolled with consent
Individuals are enrolled with consent, and profiles are built with the people who know them best: family, direct support staff, and clinicians.
Staff can act right away
Authorized staff can report a resident missing with one press, any hour, without waiting for a supervisor or a family member to be reached.
A record of every alert
Each alert leaves a timeline that supports incident reporting, licensing reviews, and follow-up with families.
Crisis response
The Assistance Alert brings trained help, with the profile in hand.
When someone with a developmental disability, autism, or dementia is in crisis, the family or caregiver can send an Assistance Alert. It reaches nearby first responders and licensed professionals whose credentials DENNIS has verified, such as behavior analysts, crisis counselors, medics, and CIT-trained officers who opt in. They arrive knowing how to communicate with the person and what calms them.
- Designed to reduce encounters that escalate, and to connect people to the right kind of help.
- Research on Crisis Intervention Team policing found CIT-trained officers more likely to resolve encounters by talking and to refer people to services, and less likely to arrest (Compton et al., 2014).
- Your behavioral health and crisis staff can take Assistance Alerts in the community you serve.
Privacy and governance
Built for public-sector scrutiny.
Need-to-know access
Staff see what staff need, families see their own person, and no one browses a roster. Volunteers see a flyer only while a search is active.
Medical stays with responders
Medical details are visible to first responders only. Families and providers can mark other fields responders-only as well.
Jurisdiction and audit
Agencies see searches in their own response area. Search records can be exported to support investigations, and responder lookups are logged.
Screened volunteers
Before joining a live search, volunteers must complete identity verification and a background check. They accept a safety acknowledgment on every search.
Complements public alerting
DENNIS complements 9-1-1, dispatch, and public alert programs like AMBER Alert and Silver Alert. Law enforcement keeps incident command.
Consent recorded
Consent is recorded for every individual enrolled, and families can update or remove a profile at any time.
Working with us
Ready to work with public agencies.
Procurement
- Registered Virginia eVA supplier, SUP369388.
- Active in SAM.gov, UEI WCN8FFJFCSG5, CAGE 25JM5.
- Virginia SWaM (small, women-owned) certification pending.
- Available as the technology partner in grant-funded programs.
What a pilot looks like
- A 30-minute call to map your programs and jurisdiction.
- Organization accounts for your staff and providers, and responder accounts for partner agencies.
- Enrollment of a starting group of individuals, with consent.
- A drill using a labeled training exercise, then live field testing.
- There is no cost for agencies to take part during field testing.
DENNIS is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated under any government agency.
Book a Call
Let's build the safety net together.
DENNIS is in field testing now, and we are looking for agencies and Community Services Boards to pilot it with us. Pick a time for a 30-minute call with our founder.
Rather send details first? Use the agency form.
Agency Onboarding
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Sources for the figures on this page
- AARP and National Alliance for Caregiving, Caregiving in the US 2025. Source
- Alzheimer's Association, 2026 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures. Source
- Alzheimer's Association, Wandering. Source
- CDC, Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 2022 data (published 2025). Source
- Anderson et al., Occurrence and Family Impact of Elopement in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Pediatrics, 2012 (summary by the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee). Source
- Compton et al., The Police-Based Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Model: II. Effects on Level of Force and Resolution, Referral, and Arrest, Psychiatric Services, 2014. Source
Screens shown are from the DENNIS app in field testing, using sample data. Names, people, and places in screenshots and examples are fictional.