In 2015, our CoC, like many many others, began to isolate data on veterans who were experiencing homelessness in order to ensure they were being prioritized and immediately referred to our veteran-specific programming. Our approach was based on the Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Veteran …

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In our 80-county CoC, we only have 4 counties with any PATH Outreach projects. This leaves most of our CoC without any funded, intentional outreach services. When we first built our Vets list, we were adding unsheltered households to the list manually. For our Point in Time Count, our CoC staff was hand-tallying all …

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One of the more challenging parts of my job is working with users who show up to a new user training having never used a computer. Or who have, but they just do not feel comfortable with computers. It's difficult enough being a case manager without also having to learn basic computer skills plus entering data about …

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Have you ever deleted a provider in ServicePoint? What was your favorite repercussion? Still seeing it in lists of providers in ART Not being able to access the provider admin for the provider, which of course you wouldn't want or need to do if it wasn't still showing up in ART, (please see update at the bottom!) or …

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Being a Balance of State implementation, it is very difficult to get a handle on which providers are doing what, are funded by whom, etc. Prior to learning about Provider assessments, I never really saw a way of keeping all that straight. The first time I ever heard of Provider assessments, I was at a Bowman conference …

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