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How PIT Location Data Protects Unsheltered Neighbors
Outreach workers understand better than anyone that where can change everything. Where someone sleeps when a storm rolls in. Where a heat wave hits hardest. Where a crisis erupts when there are only a few hours to act. For unsheltered neigh...
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Enhancing HMIS Data Security with Role-Based Access Control
Increased efficiency, stronger security, improved compliance — these are just a few of the crucial benefits role-based access can create for your orga...
Modernizing Your Outreach Strategy: Lessons from Our New Whitepaper
What does “addressing unsheltered homelessness” mean to you? Ensuring your unhoused neighbors can access potable water? Identifying and mapping encamp...
How GIS Technology Is Revolutionizing Homeless Outreach
Visibility is the basis of meaningful outreach. If your team can’t find vulnerable people, you can’t develop sustainable and effective strategies for ...
Bitfocus Joins with DirectTrust to Enable Closed-Loop Referrals
In October 2022, Bitfocus joined DirectTrust to participate in the new Information Exchange for Human Services (IX4HS) standards development effort. I...
New Outreach Tools to Transform Your Unsheltered Homelessness Care
Within the homeless services sector, there has been an increased national focus on how to best address the challenge of unsheltered homelessness. The ...
Optimizing Client & Staff Care While Short Staffed
It’s no secret many organizations are short staffed at the moment. In the human services and nonprofit sector, staff turnover can be high—overburdenin...
SOC2 Series: Why Data Security Is Crucial for HMIS Comparable Databases
Keeping Domestic Violence (DV) Victims & Their Data Safe DV victims face additional threats when their private data is not properly secured. There...
Common Sense Security: Practical Steps for Securing Your Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
HMIS Security Is More Critical Than Ever Highly Sensitive Information From Already Vulnerable Populations An HMIS contains highly sensitive medical, f...
Maximizing HMIS Methods to Assess & Address Homelessness
The Point-in-Time (PIT) Count serves as a critical occasion on the CoC calendar. Yet it is not without its limitations. The U.S. Department of Housing...
Ahead of the Curve: Proactive Approach to HUD Privacy Regulations & Compliance
Compliance with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regulations should be a top priority for any continuum of care (CoC) and associ...
Leveraging Geospatial Analytics to Improve Outreach
When it comes to providing care for homeless populations, there’s a misconception that those who are in need of help will actively seek it. This is no...
Whole Person Care With Clarity: Implementation & Results
Whole person care addresses the social, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs of an individual, with the view that each of these intersects and contr...
The Importance of Networking: Seeking Advice from Other CoCs During an HMIS Transition
When seeking a new homeless management information system (HMIS), it’s natural to lean on members within your community as you try to identify pain po...
Evaluating HMIS Demonstrations to Determine Best Fit for Your Community
The HMIS transition process can be stressful. It requires extensive communication, collaboration, and organization. When you arrive at the ‘evaluating...
Whole Person Care Part 3: Integrations and Getting Community Collaboration
As veteran case managers understand—especially those who embrace whole person care—case management requires social collaboration and digital integrati...
3 Principles for Effective Social Work Case Management
As an individual working in social work case management, you strive to have a positive impact on the community around you. You serve as a catalyst to ...
Whole Person Care Part 2: Evaluating Social Determinants of Health Crucial to Providing Improved Patient Care
Too often care providers view patients as a list of symptoms that can be treated without much regard for the social context in which people live. Sadl...
Selecting a New HMIS Software: Steps to Find the Right Vendor
Choosing a homeless management information system (HMIS) vendor that has a strong reputation for innovation and customer support will be tremendously ...
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