HMIS Help Desk

Here are the steps for removing a person from a Project while everyone else in the Household stays. You have to Exit the person from the program ...

When you need to add new Household member(s) to an open program stay there are three things that have to be addressed before you can enter their assessmen...

Follow the steps below: Look up client record. Open the client's record. Click on the Client Profile tab. Click on the pencil icon next...

According to the HUD Data Manual, this should be the last date a person slept somewhere that was not on the streets, in an emergency shelter or Safe Haven: ...

Sue has been living in her car for 3 nights before arriving here and never been homeless before.  For the purposes of HMIS data collection, what is her Tot...

Timeliness is measured by the number of calendar days between the actual occurrence of an event in the real world and when the event is documented in the HM...

Here are HUD's instructions on Entry Dates: Emergency Shelter: Night the client first stayed in the shelter. Night by night shelters will have a proj...

Here is HUD's guidance on Exit Dates: Different project types use Project Exit Date differently, to address the difference in meaning associated wi...