HMIS Forum Fourth Quarter 2014

Harris County Department of Education Thursday, December 11, 2014

2:00 – 4:00 pm

Your HMIS Team

• Takeshia Richardson – HMIS Senior Manager

• Erol Fetahagic – System Administrator/Analyst

• Ryan R. Clay – Reporting Manager

• Kelita Beechum – Support Manager

• Yvette Fuentes – HMIS Trainer

• Karen Flores – HMIS Support Specialist

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Agenda

• HMIS Support Committee Updates

• Housing Inventory Chart / Point In Time

• System Updates

• Awards & Recognitions

• Q&A

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HMIS Support Committee • 2014 Members • 2015 Members

Program Type Organization Representative

Emergency/Day Shelter The Beacon David Edwards

Prevention/Rapid Rehousing The Salvation Army Margot Durbin

Transitional/Permanent Housing Harmony House Preston Witt

Health Service Provider Healthcare for the Homeless Susan Crawford

Local Government Grantees City of Houston Antoinette Boone

Local Government Grantee Harris County Esmeralda Gonzalez

HMIS Lead Agency Coalition for the Homeless

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Awards and Recognitions!

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Housing Inventory Chart

• Two designated points of contact for each housing program

• Training schedule updated to include housing specific trainings – Mandatory for all housing programs

• Site visits to review housing inventory – January 5, 2014 – January 16, 2014

Point In Time

• January 22, 2014

• ALL sheltered data will come directly from

HMIS (NO EXCEPTIONS)

• Questions regarding the unsheltered count: Gary Grier

ggrier@homelesshouston.org

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Awards and Recognitions!

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System Updates

• 2014 HMIS Data Standards – recap – Consolidated workgroups – Updated workflows

• Compliance reports status – CoC APR (data update needed) – ESG CAPER (OK) – SSVF Dashboard & VA Repository CSV upload (OK) – HOPWA APR (report update needed) – PATH APR (not yet available)

System Updates (cont’d)

Recently Resolved Issues Open Issues

Name quality Client emergency contact

Veteran status Referral from organization

Harris Health Gold Card Chronic homeless status

Emergency shelter workflow options Data quality reports

Outreach contact enrollment option Legacy data availablity

Awards and Recognitions!

Awards and Recognitions!

2015 HMIS Forum Dates

• Mark your calendars!

March 19, 2015

June 18, 2015

September 17, 2015

December 17, 2015