Check out the HMIS Spotlight for September 2016, Top 5 Permanent Supportive Housing projects with Successful Exits or Retention!
Category: News
System Performance Report Submitted to HUD!
The System Performance Report was submitted to HUD in August, and is available for review here. The time period of the report is 10/1/14 – 9/30/15, and includes all projects that serve homeless clients in HMIS, regardless of the funding source. For more information about the report, please check out our September Data Matters Newsletter!
Some highlights from the report:
- Average LOS for ES projects is 36 days.
- Average LOS for ES & TH projects is 118 days.
- Returns to Homelessness within 2 years of PH exit from all project types is 11%.
- Change in total income for CoC funded leavers is 49%.
- Successful exits for SO projects is 4%.
- PH exits for ES, TH, and RRH projects is 39%.
HMIS Q2 2016 Report Cards Posted!
HMIS Q2 2016 Report Cards have been published and are available here! These report cards review data quality and data timeliness for each project, and include average data quality scores by project type!
HUD, DOJ, and HHS Release Joint Letter Providing Information Regarding Access to Federally Funded Life-Saving Services and Housing for Immigrants
HUD sent an email on August 12, 2016, reminding ESG and CoC funded applicable programs (Outreach, ES, TH, and ESG funded RRH) may not turn away undocumented immigrants experiencing homelessness, domestic violence, or human trafficking on the basis of their immigration status. To read HUD’s email, click here.
New HMIS Spotlight for July!
Check out the HMIS Spotlight for July 2016, Entries from Homelessness!
Using and Creating Question Sets Webinar
Adsystech, our HMIS vendor, is hosting an upcoming webinar on using and creating question sets in HMIS. If you would like to attend, please see the announcement copied below:
Register now!
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/3984762456374275332
This session will include a segment for Users about Answering Questions followed by a segment about Creating Question Sets for Administrators –
Using Question Sets (first 30 minutes)
• How to answer questions
• How to navigate between questions
• How to edit your answers
• Available pages
Creating Question Sets (last 60 minutes)
• The Basics
• What are Groups?
• Choices & Parameters for Questions & for Answers
• Using Logic to cause Questions to appear
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
The Realignment of HUD CoC Funding – Winners and Losers
On Homeless and Poverty
An article by Urban Initiatives
The Realignment of HUD Continuum of Care Program Funding:
Some Continuums of Care will be Winners and Some will be Losers
By Joe Colletti, PhD
Institute for Urban Initiatives on Homelessness and Poverty
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has begun to realign its annual Continuum of Care Program competitive funding which is about $2 billion annually. As a result, some HUD designated continuums of care for homeless assistance1 will likely see a significant increase in total funding, while others may remain stagnant or likely see significant decreases over the next couple of years. Such was the case in 2015 in California…
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