Access Programming

Hello,

I am new to these forums, and am an idiot in Access. i work for a small nonprofit and manage a project through our state Division of Rehabilitiation Services in providing Assistive Technology Services tp their clients (DORS is an agency which provides services to people with disabilities to gain meaningful employment, increase their independence or be successful in pursuing educational goals).

I have been trying to create a database to track the authorizations/clients I serve, some of them have worked but are a bit too complicated in which i am sure can be put together easier (more efficiently) and basically I am afraid to implement it as it would probably fail. Mainly a merger between a number of templates avaliable for free.

What my question is, is how much does it cost (in general) to hire someone to create the database for me. I am basically looking for a database that will be able to store client information (name, contact etc... information about their disability and their goals (employment, education etc...) who their counselor is and their contact information (multiple clients per counselor).

Now each client may have multiple authorizations (I.E. An Authorization for an Evalutation and then for training). So I need service records related to the specific authorization and then the ability to store invoices and reports related to that authorization as well. I would like it to link to a report as I create them in word and save them on a server. I would also like the ability to have the reports sent to the counselor via e-mail from the database.

Hope this makes sense, if anyone would have a generalized going price for somthing like this in terms of hiring someone to complete it that would be GREAT. Thank you,

Justin