This blog post is part of a series about Reaching Home HIFIS requirements: Reaching Home: Including the right clients Reaching Home: Collecting th…Read more

For Reaching Home Designated Communities, a major task is to utilize HIFIS to manage client-level data and use it for Coordinated Access. One of th…Read more

From time to time, people ask me about how a report handles bed-nights. Unless otherwise specified, a bed-night is counted if a client is booked in …Read more

As of April 1, 2022, Ontario communities now have new funding requirements through the HPP program. There's a lot to take in here, so many communiti…Read more

Now that HIFIS version 4.0.59 is out and has been widely adopted, several communities have come to me asking for customized By-Name Lists (or Priori…Read more

Occasionally, I get asked by someone what is the average length of stay for families (as opposed to singles) in their shelter system. On the surface…Read more

Let me ask a question: how do you calculate chronic homelessness? We know that the federal definition is 6 months in the past year or 18 months in t…Read more

At ACRE Consulting, one of the things we do a lot of is writing reports. We see a lot of different request for reports which vary in complexity from…Read more

It's almost universally agreed that family stays in HIFIS 4 are a little problematic, especially if you compare family stays in HIFIS 4 to HIFIS 3. …Read more