Orange County HMIS

The Street Outreach Project Performance Report and the Goals and Outcomes Report have been posted!

Click here to view the reports.

Due to a system upgrade, Looker will be unavailable on August 22 from 7:00AM – 9:00AM. These upgrades will improve data readability, accuracy and performance. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this brief outage.

The Office of Care Coordination in partnership with the Orange County Continuum of Care (CoC) is facilitating the Homeless Provider Forum on a quarterly basis. The next in-person Homeless Provider Forum meeting is being held on Thursday, August 18, 2022.

• Date: Thursday, August 18, 2022
• Time: 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
• Location: St. Mark Presbyterian Church
• Address: 2200 San Joaquin Hills Road, Newport Beach, CA 92660

Note: Agenda will be posted and shared via email notification at least 72 hours in advance of the meeting date.

Homeless Provider Forum Overview

The Homeless Provider Forum is co-chaired by two members of the CoC Board. The Homeless Provider Forum meetings serve as spaces to share updates on efforts of the Orange County CoC, CoC Board and Office of Care Coordination; hold trainings that support organizations in being knowledgeable on evidence-based practices as well as trainings required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); and allow service providers the opportunity to share information and services their organizations offer for people experiencing homelessness and network. If you have any questions, please contact CareCoordination@ochca.com

The Office of Care Coordination will be hosting a training on the Equal Access Final Rule and Gender Identity Final Rule established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 

Through this training, service providers will learn how to effectively implement HUD’s Equal Access Rules to ensure fair housing and shelter opportunities for people experiencing homelessness, as well as ensuring the preservation of families accessing housing and shelter. Please find details on the upcoming training below:

This virtual training requires registration. 

Date: Friday, August 5, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Please register to attend by Thursday, August 4 at https://ocgov.webex.com/ocgov/j.php?RGID=rf2c6aa3ceaeebd5f8b5f45de22c1af69

If you have questions, please feel free to contact the Office of Care Coordination at CareCoordination@ochca.com.

Registration is open for Coordinating Homeless Services Resources and Street Outreach. Register today!

This webinar series provides guidance and fosters innovation in best practices and strategies in stakeholder engagement for homelessness services systems. It will cover topics designed to help communities establish equitable, effective homelessness responses through meaningful collaboration, resource coordination, and efficient service delivery. Register Today!

Training Objectives
Participants will learn about:

• Incorporating people with lived experience and expertise into homelessness responses
• Coordinating with healthcare and other non-federal resources
• Creating direct pathways from homelessness to housing
• Operationalizing best practices
• Identifying and connecting with community resources

Who Should Attend?

This webinar series is intended for everyone involved in the homelessness response system, including but not limited to Continuum of Care (CoC) staff and leadership, program administrators, direct service staff and program management, and recipients and sub-recipients of Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) and CoC funding.

Schedule and Registration

Webinar Title	Date and Time	Registration
Stakeholder Engagement and Advancing Equity	August 4, 2022 1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT	Register Now
Coordinating Homeless Services Resources	August 11, 2022 1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT	Register Now
Street Outreach	August 18, 2022 1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT	Register Now
Implementing System Change	August 25, 2022 1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT	TBD
Optimizing Service Delivery	September 1, 2022 1:30 – 3:00 PM EDT	TBD

You must have a HUD Exchange account to register. Follow these instructions for registering.

Training Point of Contact

Homelessness to Housing Webinar Series Registrar | trainings@hudexchange.info

The Project Performance Overview document has been updated with the thresholds below. These thresholds were discussed during the July 2022 Data & Performance Management Meeting. Review the meeting materials for details.

• Goal 6 – Help Adults Increase Their Income while Enrolled in the Project
  • Updated threshold for Emergency Shelter projects is >=15%
• Goal 10 – Ensure Clients Do Not Fall Back Into Homelessness after being Housed
  • Updated threshold for Emergency Shelter projects is <=10%

Check out the new Orange County CoC Dashboard here

The Emergency Shelter Project Performance Report and the Goals and Outcomes Report have been posted!

Click here to view the reports.

Registration is now open for the fifth cohort of the HMIS Data Analytics On-Demand Course. The goal of this immersive course is to provide a conceptual and practical framework for ad hoc reporting utilizing HMIS data. This self-paced course is open to anyone in your community who is interested in analyzing, interpreting, and communicating HMIS data. This is an introductory level course and might be a good fit for newer members of your HMIS team or someone looking to brush up on their data skills. Participants are not expected to have high-level technical or statistical skills; only basic knowledge of the following is needed: HMIS data standards How to pull an HMIS comma-separated value (CSV) file set (unless the participant has access to someone who can pull HMIS reports for them) How to enter data into Excel and navigate within it The data analytics course will equip participants with the skills to create a data brief highlighting trends to engage communities to drive insights into action. A combination of content, hands-on skill-building, and recommended resources are provided to help a basic data user build skills and knowledge necessary to be an advanced data professional while providing opportunities for ongoing professional development and learning. Participants will have eight weeks to complete six course modules at their own pace. Course participants will also receive a certificate upon completion of all six modules. The fifth offering of the HMIS Data Analytics On-Demand Course will be held from July 18 – September 9, 2022. Please Note: Registration is limited to 250 individuals and will automatically close once the course is at capacity. When registering, please use the code 2022JULYHMIS. Register for Cohort Five For more information, please visit the course syllabus and the HMIS Data Analytics On-Demand Course page.

For Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) grantees with Annual Performance Reports (APR)/Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Reports (CAPER) due to HUD on or after January 1, 2023, a new Consolidated APR/CAPER reporting format will go into effect, superseding all previous HOPWA APR and CAPER forms. The new form restructures, consolidates, and streamlines the annually reported data for grantees, increasing the usability of HOPWA performance data for grantees and HUD alike.

HUD’s Office of HIV/AIDS Housing (OHH) is sponsoring a webinar to introduce the new HOPWA performance report, the Consolidated APR/CAPER. The webinar is intended for all HOPWA grantees, project sponsors, and community partners. The orientation webinar will go over:

• The purpose of changing to the new Consolidated APR/CAPER
• The format of the Consolidated APR/CAPER
• The submission process for the Consolidated APR/CAPER
• A review of the data elements collected

Registration Instructions

Register for the webinar here

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with joining information.

Webinar Point of Contact

If you have questions about registration for this webinar, please contact morgan.cline@cloudburstgroup.com.