This report identifies and calculates housing transitions, overriding the Housing Status field in HIFIS and looking directly at Housing History and shelter Admissions. Housing transitions are defined as moving from one category in a Housing Continuum to another. If you wish to utilize custom housing categories, add a custom Housing Continuum, which you will be prompted to select when you run the report.

In part, this report is designed to assist Ontario communities required to report on transitions out of unsheltered homelessness.

This report is intended to allow communities in Ontario who receive HPP funding to use HIFIS data to report out on the Emergency Shelters section of the HPP reporting requirements. Broadly, it reports on emergency shelter capacity and usage, broken down into priority population groups.

This is an unofficial report and is not endorsed by the Ontario MMAH.

This training covers the high-level administrative functions that Community Entities, in their role as a local administrator of the BC Housing instance of HIFIS, might be expected to perform.  Topics covered include: user accounts; programs; reports; configuration for admissions, housing placements, food banks, waiting lists, and goods and services modules; lookup tables; the directory of services; people; custom tables and questionnaires; and various administrative tasks.

Total learning time is around 2.5 hours.

This training covers many administrative functions in HIFIS that might be delegated to someone who administers a portion of the system - a "Local" administrator. Topics covered include: service providers; user accounts; rights; programs; reports; coordinated access; configuration for admissions, housing placements, food banks, waiting lists, and goods and services modules; lookup tables; the directory of services; people; custom tables and questionnaires; and some system settings and administrative tasks.

Total learning time is around 3.5 hours.

This training covers all administrative functions within HIFIS and is useful for high level system administrators. Topics covered include: service providers; clusters; user accounts; rights; programs; reports; coordinated access; configuration for admissions, housing placements, food banks, waiting lists, and goods and services modules; lookup tables; the directory of services; people; custom tables and questionnaires; and various system settings and administrative tasks.

Total learning time is around 5.5 hours.

This newly updated HIFIS Health Check pulls data from HIFIS along 6 metrics:

1. Cluster integration

2. Consent

3. Potential duplicates

4. Unknown housing status

5. User logins

6. Inactive clients

Together, these metrics should serve to provide a high-level overview of how well your HIFIS data is able to support your Coordinated Access system and meet Reaching Home directives.

This report is intended to allow communities in Ontario who receive HPP funding to use HIFIS data to report on housing attainment, loss, and retention. Broadly speaking, the report summarizes data about households that had a move-in or retained housing for 12 months or who became homeless, filtered by date range, service providers, programs, and service types.

This is an unofficial report and is not endorsed by the Ontario MMAH.

This report is intended to allow communities in Ontario who receive HPP funding to use HIFIS data to report out on the program participants section of the HPP reporting requirements, which encompass the majority of sections 1 and 2. Broadly speaking, the report summarizes data about which households received services associated with which Programs. It also determines the first time the household received a service like it, and from that determines whether the client was homeless or at risk of homelessness at the time, and also whether that means the client was new to HPP or a returning household.

This is an unofficial report and is not endorsed by the Ontario MMAH.

This HIFIS Guru-in-Training Program module covers the fundamental elements that are used to configure HIFIS, and is broken into three chapters.

• Chapter 1: Building Blocks covers Service Providers, Clusters, Places, and Programs

• Chapter 2: Users and Rights covers User accounts, Rights, and Rights Templates

• Chapter 3: HIFIS Fields covers Look-up Tables and other drop-down menus, Geographic Regions, Mandatories, and your data dictionary