Join HMIS

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Who Should Participate and Why?

We want to collect information from all homeless service providers throughout the LACoC. If you receive U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding, you are required to use HMIS. If you are not, we encourage you to participate whether you have or will ever receive government funding. Increased participation in HMIS will help all of us gain an understanding of homelessness, evaluate programs, garner more funding, and strengthen our collective efforts to prevent and end homelessness.

HMIS is a database designed to meet an agency’s business needs. It can be used for people, contract, and service delivery management. Agencies benefit by having a free database with support that can assist with meeting their reporting needs.

How Does HMIS Work?

Participating agencies collect and input standardized client-level and demographic data into the system. Services and target achievements are entered to capture client-level activities depending on the agency, program, or program type. The data is compiled into reports that allow us to understand the demographic, geographic, or cultural scope of homelessness and the needs.

How is Data Used?

For Clients: Reduces the wait time for services
For Funders: Evaluates return on investment
For Providers: Measures and evaluates program effectiveness and reports to Board and Funders
For HUD and other similar entities: Provides an understanding of homelessness and service use patterns

How to Secure Good Data Quality?

Client data should be input into HMIS on a daily basis
Review HUD’s data standards
Assign an employee with a basic level of computer literacy for data entry and moderate-to-highly skilled for reporting
Attend training and user forums

The LACoC HMIS includes:

Client demographic data collection
Comprehensive client case management
Employment, education, and housing history tracking
Savings tracking
Bed maintenance, tracking and assignment module
Customized assessment capability
Customized reporting capability

Real-time data collection and reporting
Group activities management
Group case note management
Information and referral capabilities
Advanced security features
Outcome management