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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No, not that kind of floating! Hopefully this post will be obsolete for those using ServicePoint in about a week or so, but if you're confused about what floating beds means or you're concerned about your AHAR's beds being 'floated' correctly (in whichever HMIS product you're using), this aims to clarify what it means …

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This is the third in a series of blog posts I'm doing about the custom reports we have been using to analyze Rapid Rehousing data to ensure that our Rapid Rehousing projects are being used to their fullest. We focus this time on another piece of our Quarterly Performance Report (the latest is here: …

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In 2009, when the HPRP (Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program) program began, homeless services providers and policy makers understandably began to try to nail down what the best target population was for Rapid Rehousing services so the money could be spent as efficiently as possible. By 2012, there were …

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Happy New Year! This January we are scrutinizing data quality in preparation for the Point in Time Count. Ever since the new Data Standards came out, we have been watching the new data being saved to see where there may be confusion out in the land! Here are some things we have found to be issues to watch for. Length …

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Trying to fix your broken ART reports? Isn't it great going through all your variables and report filters to be sure you've got all the picklist values changed to match the new standards? It's way better than a poke in the eye! Even though it's still a lot of work, this should make things easier- you can copy/paste …

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Reports without the use of alerters are like indecipherable and uninteresting colors and shapes on a canvas. Alerters paint your report with the details that give it meaning and depth. There is usually a lot to convey when viewing a block of data, so alerters are good for pointing the viewer's eye toward what you want …

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With the new 2014 HUD Data Standards in effect now, everyone is picking up the pieces from their old reports having been broken with the upgrade, and may be wondering how to continue to use their same reports but include the new set of rules within them. HUD has stated that all clients in a program stay as of October …

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This blog posting stems from a conference-call-style training I sat in on about a year ago, where we did not really have control over what was covered, and one of the topics that was covered in depth was formatting. My initial feeling on it was eh, formatting is not that important, or easy enough to figure out, but the …

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Navigating the homeless services landscape as a family can be very stressful and often leads to sometimes heartbreaking changes in household configurations, before, during, and after program stays. Capturing this kind of data can be especially tricky since not only are the situations complex, but the data objects …

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