On behalf of our federal partners, we’re excited to share Home, Together, the new federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness. This August 9th webinar: discusses the objectives outlined in the Plan, highlights some of the ways federal partners will support you as you do the hard work of ending homelessness, and answers pressing questions.
NAEH Blog Post on Evidence Based Solutions for RRH Programs
Check out this great post from NAEH about solving Rapid Re-Housing challenges!
This post is part of an Alliance blog series highlighting the Rapid Re-housing Learning Collaboratives in Georgia and Maryland. Read more about Learning Collaboratives here.
For the past 11 months, the National Alliance to End Homelessness has been working with twenty-eight rapid re-housing providers in the state of Maryland to ramp up their outcomes. In Learning Collaboratives facilitated by the Alliance in partnership with the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, providers learned how to build organizational capacity, implement strategic changes, and set strategic goals to:
- Move more people from homelessness to permanent housing
- Reduce the average length of time households are homelessness
- Implement rapid re-housing that serves individuals with high barriers to housing
By coming together to discuss their common challenges and strategies, providers can transform their practices. Their new knowledge was then immediately put to the test in the #MDHousingChallenge, a 100-day period where providers are challenged to house more people than they ever have.
Two New Required Questions Added to Entry Screen in HMIS
As discussed at the July User Meeting, to questions related to client location have been added to HMIS. Below are the questions, and a description of each.
“What city were you in immediately prior to entry into this project?”
- The answer should be the city in which the client was “residing” (sleeping) in on the night before they entered your project.
- Answer options will be a drop-down selection with a list of all cities in Orange County, in addition to “Client Doesn’t Know,” “Client Refused,” “Data Not Collected,” “Unincorporated Orange County”, and “Outside Orange County.”
“What was the city of your last known permanent address?”
- The answer should be the city in which the client last lived in a permanent housing situation for 90 days or longer.
- Answer the question by typing in the city the client last lived in permanently
New HMIS User Agreement
At the last CoC Board meeting, the HMIS Policies and Procedures were approved! All existing HMIS Users will need to sign the HMIS User Agreement when they next log in to Clarity, as we have added a line to the HMIS User Agreement stating that the user agrees to abide by the HMIS Policies and Procedures. This replaces the previous Policies and Procedures Acknowledgement Form, so there is no need to send anything to the HMIS Help Desk. The User Agreement will automatically appear upon login, so you can simply sign and save your HMIS User Agreement when you next log in to HMIS. This means that Agency Administrators no longer have to send any forms to the HMIS team for their new users!
USICH: Home, Together
On behalf of our federal partners, we’re excited to share Home, Together, the new federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness. Please register for an August 9th webinar to discuss the objectives outlined in the Plan, highlight some of the ways federal partners will support you as you do the hard work of ending homelessness, and answer your questions.
Webinar: Unique Housing Needs of Individuals with Criminal Justice Histories
In case you missed it, please view the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Homeless and Housing Resource Network (HHRN) webinar to provide insights into client service strategies. This webinar was held on Wednesday, July 25, 2018. Please allot a few moments for it to load.
Take the HMIS User Survey!
Please complete this survey regarding HMIS! We want to hear your thoughts on communications and trainings from the 211OC HMIS team, as well as the implementation of Clarity. The survey will only take 7 minutes, and is extremely helpful for us as we move forward!
User Meeting Webinar (07/18/18)
Please join us for our next user meeting webinar on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 from 10-11AM. No RSVP or registration is required.
Scheduled HMIS Outage Alert for 07/07/18
Please be advised that on Saturday, July 7th (07/07/2018) at 8:00am PST, our HMIS system will be unavailable for approximately 4 hours due to conduct hardware infrastructure upgrades. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Approximated downtime scheduled: July 7th, 2018, from 8:00AM PST to July 7th, 2018, 12:00PM PST.
In Person HMIS User Meeting May 30th 2018
If you have subscribed to the HMIS Calendar on ochmis.org so that our events are visible in your Outlook or Google Calendars, you may see that the event for the May 2018 HMIS User Meeting is set on May 16th. This is incorrect and the HMIS Calendar has been updated to reflect the correct date and time for the next user meeting on May 30th, 2018, from 10AM to 11AM.
The change made in the HMIS calendar may not have been pushed out to your calendar. Next week we will send out another reminder email for the in person HMIS User Meeting on May 30th.
We apologize for any inconvenience.