Presented at: NHSDC Conference, Pittsburgh PA Presented on: 04/18/2018 HUD has required that regions have a Coordinated Entry System in place by January 23, 2018. We’ve seen best practices from many regions who have a single, open, HMIS system and have strong participation rates. What about regions who do not? Some regions have providers that Read more about When CE Best Practices Don’t Work: Setting up CE in Regions with Closed and Fragmented Data Systems[…]

Presented at: NHSDC Conference, Pittsburgh PA Presented on: 04/17/2018 Collecting PIT data in communities impacted by natural disasters is essential to assure regions are not penalized. Data also helps to further inform recommendations on long-term disaster recovery to the State Agencies so they may better know how to utilize Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Read more about Measuring the Impact of Natural Disasters on the Homeless System[…]

Presented at: NHSDC Presented on: 10/11/2017 The communities of Houston and Corpus Christi quickly designed, developed, and implemented a technical framework to support the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.  This presentation included an overview on the challenges that were faced, followed by a discussion of how a services-oriented architecture (SOA) and integration with HMIS was leveraged to maximize the Read more about Rapid Deployment of a Homeless Response Framework[…]

Presented at: NHSDC Conference, Salt Lake City, UT Presented on: 04/24/2017 Coordinating accurate PIT count is a challenge even for small regions. Both Connecticut and San Antonio used paper-based counts but moved to mobile tech and dashboards. San Antonio conducted a blitz count with full canvassing while Connecticut used geographic-sampling. We will show how geospatial Read more about Tools and Techniques for Conducting Reliable Point in Time Counts in Large Areas[…]

Presented at: NHSDC Conference, Salt Lake City, UT Presented on: 04/26/2017 During this session, we will provide an overview of how project-level performance measures, using count results culled from APRs and PIT reports, can serve as an effective alternative to large data warehouses that require client consent in order to co-mingle data. We will walk Read more about We Have the Results from our System Performance Measures, Now What?[…]

Presented at: NHSDC Conference Arlington, VA Presented on: 10/10/2013 The annual point in time (PIT) homeless census is an instrumental effort conducted for the purpose of ascertaining the true scope of homelessness both locally and nationally.  Results from both the 2011 and 2012 census showed that 38% of all homeless were residing in unsheltered locations. Despite Read more about Adopting the HUD Point in Time Mobile App to Assist with Regional Counts[…]

Presented at: National Human Services Data Consortium (NHSDC) Presented on: 10/12/2012 In this session we reviewed the process for ensuring an HMIS is compliant with published regulations by sharing with attendees HUD endorsed tools that are being used to validate both of the HUD data exchange formats, the HUD APR, the HPRP APR, and the Read more about Tools and Techniques for Ensuring an Accurate HMIS Implementation[…]