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A Better PIT Count Starts With What Happens After the Count
Anyone involved in a Point-in-Time count knows how quickly the work can become complicated. Volunteers need to be recruited. Surveys need to be prepared. Shelter data needs to be collected from agencies that may not use HMIS. Unsheltered ou...
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How to Build an Effective and Equitable Assessment Tool
Assessment tools inform one of the most important decisions your community makes: Who gets to benefit from your CoC’s limited resources? When the stak...
Optimizing Coordinated Entry With Effective HMIS Queue Management
Coordinated entry (CE) requires a great deal of collaboration. Homeless response systems are complex, and many clients receive care at multiple touchp...
Leveraging Real-Time Data to Optimize Shelter Space Management
Overnight shelters serve as more than just a quick fix for people experiencing homelessness. They're a crucial part of a community's social safety net...
Understanding the Role of Data Analytics in Homelessness Policy Evaluation
Policymakers are constantly seeking effective strategies to address the complexities of homelessness. Thankfully, harnessing the power of data analyti...
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...
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