1995

• Metropolitan Atlanta Case Management Consortium, forerunner to Pathways Community Network, formed by local nonprofit executives to develop a computer based, shared social services case management system

1998

• $380,000 in startup funding secured from the Joseph B Whitehead Foundation, Campbell Foundation, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, Fulton County Human Services Dept and the Atlanta Foundation
• Web based Community Information Sharing System developed, linking 22 Atlanta social services providers
  

1999

• PATHWAYS COMPASS version 2 introduced, containing 51 user designed enhancements
• PC Week magazine honors system for technical excellence

2000

• Pathways is one of five winners of the international Ericsson Internet Community Awards
• HUD honors the Pathways information system with a Best Practice award
• PATHWAYS COMPASS system usage expands to Florida

2001

• PATHWAYS COMPASS system enhanced to include health care referral information
• System usage expands to Montana

2002

• US Dept of Housing and Urban Development announces that all HUD funded communities will be required to implement Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS)
• Pathways designated as the State of Georgia's sole HMIS
• Pathways launches research unit to conduct Atlanta-area homeless population point-in-time counts
  

2006

• Georgia HMIS project supports aggressive initiative to further enhance PATHWAYS COMPASS system with new features including streamlined intake/discharge modules, robust community outcome measures and enhanced reporting
• Pathways expands research unit and begins conducting studies on poverty and access to health care
  

2010

• Communities in Georgia, Florida and Virginia use PATHWAYS COMPASS to coordinate data collection and reporting for federal stimulus programs

Today

• Communities in seven states use the PATHWAYS COMPASS Community Information Sharing System to coordinate care for 160,000 people per year, recording 25,000 individual service transactions each week