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Title: HMIS Training


1
Presents
The Blue Ridge
H M I S
2
Overview
  • What is HMIS?
  • Benefits of HMIS
  • Pros and Cons of HMIS
  • HMIS is a Tool, Not the Goal

3
What is HMIS?Homeless Management Information
System
  • A Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
    is a computerized data collection tool
    specifically designed to capture client-level,
    system-wide information over time on the
    characteristics and services needs of men, women,
    and children experiencing homelessness.
  • HMISs are typically web-based software
    applications that local homeless communities
    implement to enter and share client-level data
    across agencies about homeless persons served in
    shelters or other homeless service agencies.
  • HMIS allows the aggregation of client-level data
    across homeless service agencies to generate
    unduplicated counts and service patterns of
    clients served.

4
What is HMIS? continued
  • An HMIS is either a vendor developed or a
    communitys locally developed software system
    that records and stores information on homeless
    clients served
  • HUDs National Data and Technical Standards
    establish baseline standards for participation,
    data collection, privacy and security
  • Implementation of HMIS is a requirement for
    receipt of Department of Housing and Urban
    Development (HUD) McKinney-Vento funding

5
Whats in HMIS?
  • HMIS records and stores
  • Client Intake
  • Demographics
  • Basic assessment of needs
  • Bed utilization
  • Service Tracking
  • Services delivered by a provider
  • Services received by clients
  • Gaps in the homeless services in a community

6
How can HMIS Help us?
  • Case Management
  • Ability to plan, schedule, and follow-up on
    delivery of services
  • Ability to track changes in clients over time
  • Ability to monitor and measure performance goals
    and outcomes
  • Information and Referral (I R)
  • Database of available resources
  • Online referrals
  • Electronic submission of applications for
    benefits and eligibility determination

7
Triangle of Benefits of HMIS
8
Benefits for HomelessMen, Women, and Children
  • Decrease in duplicate intakes and assessments
  • Streamlined referrals
  • Coordinated case management
  • Mainstream benefit eligibility and/or
    determination
  • Professional development through involvement in
    planning process

9
Benefits for HomelessService Providers
  • Improve agency effectiveness through tracking
    client outcomes
  • Coordinate services, internally among agency
    programs, and externally with other providers
  • Prepare financial and programmatic reports for
    funders, boards, and other stakeholders
  • Inform program design decisions

10
Benefits for Community Coordinators,Policy
Makers, and Government Officials
  • Increase understanding of the local extent and
    scope of homelessness
  • Facilitate an unduplicated count of persons
    experiencing homelessness
  • Identify service gaps (i.e. are the services
    available meeting the needs of clients)
  • Inform systems design and policy decisions
  • Develop a forum for addressing community-wide
    issues

11
Pros and Cons of HMIS vs. Traditional Methods
Why is HMIS a better alternative thanpoint in
time counts or aggregate service provider reports
forgathering community-wide information on
homelessness?
  • Method Point in Time Counts
  • Count everyone who is homeless on one night
  • Pro Unduplicated number of people on the street
    or in shelter in one night, includes those not
    served by homeless programs
  • Con No information on whether those people were
    homeless for one night or all year.
    Under-represents those that move in and out of
    the system throughout a time period

12
Pros and Cons of HMIS vs. Traditional Methods
Why is HMIS a better alternative thanpoint in
time counts or aggregate service provider reports
forgathering community-wide information on
homelessness?
  • Method Summation of aggregate reports from
    funded agencies
  • Each program generates aggregate data about
    persons served over a time period (i.e. a year)
  • Pro Broader information about population served
    throughout all programs
  • Con Duplicated counts, the same people are
    counted by multiple programs limited
    understanding of patterns of service use or total
    population size.

13
Why HMIS Over Other Methods?
  • Summary of Approaches

14
HMIS is a Tool, Not the Goal
  • What questions can HMIS help to answer
  • At the local level?
  • At the national level?

15
What Questions Can HMIS Answer for Local
Communities?
  • How many people are homeless on the streets and
    in the service system?
  • How many are chronically or episodically
    homeless?
  • What are the characteristics and service needs of
    those served?
  • Which programs are most effective at reducing and
    ending homelessness?

16
What Questions Can HMIS Answer for the Nation?
  • How many people are homelessin the United
    States?
  • Who is homeless?
  • Where do people receive shelter and services and
    where did they live before homelessness?
  • What are the patterns of homeless residential
    program use?
  • What is the nations capacity for housing
    homeless people and how much is utilized?

17
Summary of Key Issues
  • HMIS Benefits all stakeholders
  • Homeless Individuals Families
  • Service Providers
  • CoC, Policy Makers, and Government
  • HMIS does more than just collect data

18
H M I S
  • Contact the HMIS Coordinator for any questions
    you may have about the Blue Ridge HMIS.
  • You can reach the HMIS Coordinator at
  • leeb_at_councilofcommunityservices.org,
  • Or (540) 985-0131, x703
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