Today we talked about:

• HIFIS performance, it's been slow and having outages a lot recently.

• Consent forms: debating the pros and cons of listing service providers on them

• Talked about the current ongoing bug where you can add services to clients with expired consent and whether that will be fixed soon

Today we talked about:

• Who's on the BNL? Some communities are trying to get "one report to rule them all" and we had a great conversation about the lack of clarity on how that term is defined.

  • See Who's on our BNL?

• Discussion about HIFIS Office Hours for Encampments module. There was some discussion about how to make it work best for outreach workers. We talked about the interaction between encampments and housing status

  • See Bulk mark clients as homeless

• We talked a little bit about consent in the context of minors

  • See Make Inherited Consent expire automatically

  • See Alternate Client Types: Anonymous & Dependent

Today we talked about:

• June 2026 update - mostly bug fixes including security

• Minimum age of consent - what should it be, particularly in Ontario? Some discussion about 16 versus 18 versus leaving it blank

• Family members - what are the impacts of collecting versus not collecting data about children? About using/not using the family module?

• Diversion - experiences implementing the Diversion module. Hamilton just implemented. Chatham-Kent looking to implement soon.