This is an opportunity for BFZ-C Chronic/Veteran Cohort communities to connect face-to-face with peers, share insights, and dive into strategies that drive real change. Stay tuned for more details—we can’t wait to see you there!
This is an opportunity for BFZ-C Chronic/Veteran Cohort communities to connect face-to-face with peers, share insights, and dive into strategies that drive real change. Stay tuned for more details—we can’t wait to see you there!
Do dates and date ranges trip you up? This course is intended to reinforce and build your understanding of how to handle dates in your reports. We cover dates and date-times, discrete dates and date ranges. We will review formulas like dateadd() and datediff(), and provide some new toys to play with too. Students will work on two reports, one focused on goods and services, and the other on service restrictions.
Cost: $250.00 per person, plus applicable taxes Class Size: 6 maximum Difficulty: 🔴🔴⭕⭕⭕
Kat shared some information that 17% of her active clients were over the 90-day inactivity threshold but hadn't received any services in 90 days. She has a script from HICC that verifies this, and she's curious how prevalent this issue is in other communities. Here's a link to the SQL code. Please contact @Kat LeBlanc with any interesting results.
Several communities are currently testing the new COR report.
Pero asked about how communities are validating the (older) CHR report and what the definitions were.
We're going deep on activity and inactivity!
Kat shared some information that 17% of her active clients were over the 90-day inactivity threshold but hadn't received any services in 90 days. She has a script from HICC that verifies this, and she's curious how prevalent this issue is in other communities. Here's a link to the SQL code. Please contact @Kat LeBlanc with any interesting results.
Several communities are currently testing the new COR report.
Pero asked about how communities are validating the (older) CHR report and what the definitions were.
First call in a while, since the last one was cancelled. This week we had about 12 people. Here were some highlights:
Transitional housing - if a client moves in to housing for only a couple days, is there a way we can record this but not count it as a transition to housing?
Veteran confirmation - North Bay's VAC office told them they needed a SIN number to confirm veteran status, which is of course a big challenge
CAEH innovation funding - lots of communities applying and crossing their fingers
Immigrations & refugees - funding available through the Interim Housing Assistance Program, lots of discussion about data needs
First call in a while, since the last one was cancelled. This week we had about 12 people. Here were some highlights:
Transitional housing - if a client moves in to housing for only a couple days, is there a way we can record this but not count it as a transition to housing?
Veteran confirmation - North Bay's VAC office told them they needed a SIN number to confirm veteran status, which is of course a big challenge
CAEH innovation funding - lots of communities applying and crossing their fingers
Immigrations & refugees - funding available through the Interim Housing Assistance Program, lots of discussion about data needs
Welcome to our new participants from the West coast in Red Deer, Grande Prairie, and Whitehorse!
Today we talked about:
APIs and data linkages - lots of partners assume that HIFIS already talks to other systems (like SAMS). Ali does a little overview of what an API is, talked about send/receive functions, and how the software on both ends would need to have an enabling piece to allow this
Case Management Sessions - Discussion from Red Deer and Chatham about Case Sessions.
Activity statuses - in ETO (Alberta's current system) there are other Client Statuses - "Unknown" and "Disappeared," so we talked about how that works in HIFIS
Lindsey reporting about the recent HIFIS Working Group - some discussion about collecting information about disabilities, also supportive housing and recording rent as an expense and subsidies as income.
Welcome to our new participants from the West coast in Red Deer, Grande Prairie, and Whitehorse!
Today we talked about:
APIs and data linkages - lots of partners assume that HIFIS already talks to other systems (like SAMS). Ali does a little overview of what an API is, talked about send/receive functions, and how the software on both ends would need to have an enabling piece to allow this
Case Management Sessions - Discussion from Red Deer and Chatham about Case Sessions.
Activity statuses - i…
Welcome to our new participants from the West coast in Red Deer, Grande Prairie, and Whitehorse!
Today we talked about:
APIs and data linkages - lots of partners assume that HIFIS already talks to other systems (like SAMS). Ali does a little overview of what an API is, talked about send/receive functions, and how the software on both ends would need to have an enabling piece to allow this
Case Management Sessions - Discussion from Red Deer and Chatham about Case Sessions.
Activity statuses - in ETO (Alberta's current system) there are other Client Statuses - "Unknown" and "Disappeared," so we talked about how that works in HIFIS
Lindsey reporting about the recent HIFIS Working Group - some discussion about collecting information about disabilities, also supportive housing and recording rent as an expense and subsidies as income.
Slow start today, but the conversation really ramped up. Here are some of the highlights:
Transitional housing: housed or homeless? We discussed how there was a spectrum of different ways that transitional housing could look, but in HIFIS, we have to make the binary decision of "homeless or housed."
Who ultimately gets to decide what the community's prioritization criteria are? The CE gets the funding and is ultimately responsible, but the CAB gets authority to decide on prioritization. There are some conflicting incentives - supportive housing providers would rather prioritize people with lower acuity, and special interest groups want to prioritize their population.
What about people being discharged from correctional facilities (or hospital). Should we endeavour to house them immediately (possibly taking resources away from the priority list) so they aren't discharged into homelessness?
Slow start today, but the conversation really ramped up. Here are some of the highlights:
Transitional housing: housed or homeless? We discussed how there was a spectrum of different ways that transitional housing could look, but in HIFIS, we have to make the binary decision of "homeless or housed."
Who ultimately gets to decide what the community's prioritization criteria are? The CE gets the funding and is ultimately responsible, but the …
Slow start today, but the conversation really ramped up. Here are some of the highlights:
Transitional housing: housed or homeless? We discussed how there was a spectrum of different ways that transitional housing could look, but in HIFIS, we have to make the binary decision of "homeless or housed."
Who ultimately gets to decide what the community's prioritization criteria are? The CE gets the funding and is ultimately responsible, but the CAB gets authority to decide on prioritization. There are some conflicting incentives - supportive housing providers would rather prioritize people with lower acuity, and special interest groups want to prioritize their population.
What about people being discharged from correctional facilities (or hospital). Should we endeavour to house them immediately (possibly taking resources away from the priority list) so they aren't discharged into homelessness?
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