Our CoC has been working on putting together a document of performance measurements for all the agencies to strive to meet. The first I heard of it was a request for us to please run an Annual Performance Report (APR) on every Transitional Housing (TH) provider in the Balance of State. I'm usually pretty easy going, …

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Like many others, we struggle with the idea of defining "recidivism", or the preferred term, "recurrence". HUD won't do it, and no one that I've heard has come out and said, "I GOT IT- this is the definition." It is impossible to code a great report on this without the answers to some of …

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Today I had to figure out a way to isolate 2 Voucher-based Transitional Housing providers in a report designed to show Average Length of Stay by provider. You run the report based on Program Type Code, so if you choose "Transitional Housing" in the prompts, I wanted the report to show whether each …

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For the past few days, I've been questioning the necessity and purpose of this website. I could not quite place what was wrong, but the main gist of it was that I don't have the best ideas in the world, and many other HMIS's around the US are light years ahead of us in terms of accomplishments, so why put this out …

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Are you using Interims and Followups in your ServicePoint implementation? With the recent change HUD made to the CoC APR, instead of introducing the workaround offered up by Bowman, we decided to jump both feet first and just get Interims and Followups set up and implemented so that our users can have this tool. Last …

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Has your HMIS implementation had to submit data to Abt for your Rapid Rehousing pilot project? Are you still in the middle of trying to get the data out so you can get around to your AHAR and other things? I just submitted ours on Friday, and wanted to blog about it since others might be in the middle of theirs still, …

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Are you using Interims and Followups in your ServicePoint implementation? With the recent change HUD made to the CoC APR, instead of introducing the workaround offered up by Bowman, we decided to jump both feet first and just get Interims and Followups set up and implemented so that our users can have this tool. Last …

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At the conference last week, our Advanced ART training class spent about an hour on learning how to set up Input Controls on custom reports. I have many thoughts about Input Controls, which I thought I was being subtle about expressing, but apparently my distaste for them got out via my notes I accidentally left behind …

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My workmates and I attended the latest Bowman conference in Scottsdale Arizona. The first two days consisted of Advanced ART training, and the rest of the week was dedicated to conference sessions. Since there were HUD reps presenting, it was difficult to really choose other sessions because it's always good to hear …

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