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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If you attended the Bowman conference in New Orleans last week, or if you know through other channels, we are going to become very interested in Qlik very soon! Aside from the AHAR, APRs, ending veteran and chronic homelessness, and all the other things us HMIS admins do every day, we can also start thinking about …

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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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Rapid Rehousing is a well-respected strategy for ending homelessness and is rightfully held in high esteem by many organizations such as the National Alliance to End Homelessness and the US Interagency Council on Homelessness. HUD's brief on the program describes the program, its history, its benefits, best practices, …

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Just a short post to note my return to the HMIS world. I still love SQL and all, but I had the opportunity to return to a better situation and work with the people I love to work with doing work I am strongly engaged with. :) Let the blogging continue!

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Well, yesterday was my last day at my place of employment, so I am no longer really in the HMIS world and I will no longer be using Business Objects to build reports. I start my new gig next week, where I will be using SQL and SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS to help build a data warehouse and reports to go with it. In all the …

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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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