HMIS Data Standards
Define This
Throwback To...
What Does That Stand For?
Before and After
100

Long duration and impact ability to live independently are part of the definition of this in HMIS

What is a disabling condition (or disability)? 

100

The regional system for referring clients to housing opportunities.

What is Coordinated Entry?

100

"Brat Summer" of this year, during which HMIS turned off for several weeks to handle a software transition

What is 2024?

100

HMIS

What is Homeless Management Information System? 

100

What you might take your belongings in on a trip + the vendor that runs our database 

What is SuitCaseWorthy?

200

This data element indicates whether a client in permanent housing is homeless or not.

What is the housing move in date?

200

It’s the user role that your account in HMIS is set to.

What is a workgroup?
200

The launch of Coordinated Entry data standards in March of this year, after which everyone at HUD went home for quite a while

What is 2020?

200

RCC

What is Ramsey County Continuum/CoC)? 

200

Athletes and students may run long or short distances to be part of this HMIS web platform.

What is ClientTrack and Field?

300

Section 3.917 in the data standards covers the __ Living Situation of a client

What is prior? 

300

It's a program that provides short- and medium-term tenant-based rental assistance.

What is rapid re-housing?

300

The year Taylor Swift called her new album "1989," and several suburban counties called their new CoC "SMAC" 

What is 2014?

300

RHY

What is Runaway and Homeless Youth?

300

Like poker or old maid, played with these bar-coded IDs used for shelters. 

What is a Community Card game? 

400
Data Elements V1-V10 are only required for projects funded by this federal cabinet department. 

What is Veteran's Affairs? 

400

It’s like a report, but easier – it runs on the fly and entirely inside the HMIS site.

What is a data checker?

400
This year, which saw the launches of Friends, Amazon, ER, NAFTA, and the federal CoC program

What is 1994?

400

FHPAP

What is the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program?

400

This vampire of literature loves to know how many beds are available for shelter across the state.

What is Housing Inventory Count Dracula?

500

While most programs ask about mental health, only one program, RHY, is required to change a letter and ask about this type of health

What is dental? 

500

It’s the official name for the three dots next to an item in ClientTrack that bring up the drop-down menu.

What is the action button?

500

The sudden death of the video platform Vine, at the end of this year, which also saw Adult Shelter Connect launch in Hennepin County

What is 2016?

500

HRSSR

What are Homeless Response System Supplemental Resources? 

500

Minnesota has ten of these four-dimensional service regions beloved by science fiction authors.

What is the Space-Time Continuum of Care?

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