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Orange County HMIS

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.

June HMIS Statistics

There are currently 41 agencies and 155 homeless projects using HMIS in Orange County.

As of 6/30/2016, 56 agencies have entered 75,870 clients into the system since inception. This is an increase of 0.69% over the previous month of May, and a 6.00% increase since 12/31/15.

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…

Click here to read entire article

 

HMIS Statistics May 2016

There are currently 41 agencies and 155 homeless projects using HMIS in Orange County.

As of 5/31/2016, 56 agencies have entered 75,348 clients into the system since inception. This is an increase of 0.62% over the previous month of April, and a 5.27% increase since 12/31/15.

HMIS Statistics April 2016

There are currently 41 agencies and 155 homeless projects using HMIS in Orange County.

As of 4/30/2016, 56 agencies have entered 74,881 clients into the system since inception. This is an increase of 1.2% over the previous month of March, and a 4.62% increase since 12/31/15.

HMIS Statistics March 2016

There are currently 38 agencies and 155 homeless projects using HMIS in Orange County.

As of 1/31/2016, 56 agencies have entered 73,991 clients into the system since inception. This is an increase of .98% over the previous month of February, and a 3.38% increase since 12/31/15.

HMIS Patch Updates February 2016

In the month of February, our HMIS vendor made some changes to HMIS to improve system functionality. Please see below for a list of the updates that apply to you. If you have any questions about these updates, or if you find any issues with these updates, please email HMIS-helpdesk@211oc.org.

  • The ClientMasterRecordReport_OC has been updated to change the Social Security field to Last 4 SSN.
  • The Age, Date of Birth, Org Name, Project Type Code, and Funder:Prog. Comp. fields have been added to the ProgramSpecificDataElements_Entry_Results and ProgramSpecificDataElements_Exit_Results reports.
  • Two new CFCOC reports have been published. The CFCOC Services Provided Report and CFCOC Services Provided Details Report display numbers of unduplicated clients and family units, bed nights and services provided by contract.
  • On the Additional Assessments page the Location drop down now defaults to no location if no location has been selected.
  • The OC_Bed_Utilization report has been updated to fix the duplication issue with the “Occupying Households” column.

HMIS Statistics February 2016

There are currently 39 agencies using HMIS in Orange County.

As of 2/29/2016, 56 agencies have entered 72,423 clients into the system since inception. This is an increase of 1.20% over the previous month of December, and a 11.10% increase since 12/31/15.

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