Continuum of Care News

WellSky important update The Universal Data Element "Relationship to Head of Household" is a critical component of data collection and reporting for HUD and all the Federal Partners. WellSky will set this field to "required" in Community Services 5.14.7 (available in the next few weeks) to help improve accuracy in data entry and reporting.  WellSky created a new resource, "Relationship to Head of Household Guidance v1", that is available now in the "HACS 2022 HUD Data Standards" and "HACS HUD Documentation" folders in the Client Library. This new resource answers general questions about the data element and provides helpful data entry tips.   WellSky plans to further enhance the data entry validations for this data element and will provide impr...

Mark your calendar for this 3-day hybrid event to help you achieve more with WellSky Community Services. Register now: WellSky Community Services Boot Camp June 1-3 | Overland Park, KS and Online Join your colleagues from across the country at the 2022 WellSky Community Services Boot Camp - A Learning Services LIVE! Event.  You will enjoy three days of learning, interaction, and Q&A in an upgraded format that allows participants to join in-person or virtually. We are finalizing the agenda now, but you can expect sessions on system administration, reporting, and timely topics to help you address the challenges of this new era in human services. Learn more now and make your plans to attend ! Learn more and register ...

WellSky important update WellSky has updated an ART Gallery Report with the following changes: 0629 - Housing Inventory Count - v19 Updated with 2022 HUD Data Dictionary changes. Please note that in order to review the Chronic/Veteran/Youth inventory information you will need to either run the "REQ101 Housing Inventory Count – v3" sheet in Qlik Sense or use ReportWriter in Community Services. This is documented in the 0629 User Manual. WellSky also recommends running the "REQ102 Project Descriptor Data Elements - v01" sheet in Qlik Sense to check for any provider data quality issues before running the 0629 ART Gallery report. As of Monday, March 7 th , all clients will have the mapped report in their mapped ART Gallery reports folder. As a reminder, th...

WellSky important update HIC and PIT reporting is expected to begin in March of 2022.  Updated guidance can be found here:  https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/6537/notice-cpd-21-12-hic-and-pit-count-data-collection-for-coc-and-esg-programs/  The following updated WellSky resources for Community Services are available for use NOW :  REQ101 Housing Inventory Count – v3 located in Qlik Sense 0630a - Sheltered-Unsheltered PIT 2022 - v28 located in the ART Gallery This updated report contains a new workflow counting for SSVF EHA clients in the Emergency Shelter sections of the report 2022 version of the "Unsheltered PIT Workflow for 0630a ART Gallery Report" document. This document is available in the Customer Community Library - "HACS Community Se...

WellSky important update WellSky has learned that we had an issue with ART rebuilds last night during our maintenance window. All of the affected rebuilds have been restarted. You can check to see if you received your nightly rebuild by checking the "Last Warehouse Build" date/time information in the ART browser. WellSky will review our maintenance procedures to minimize future impacts to ART and BusinessObjects 4.3 builds. Please note that this impacts both ART and BusinessObjects 4.3 builds. The BusinessObjects 4.3 builds will restart once the ART build has finished for the impacted sites. Please note scheduled report runs will be delayed until these ART rebuilds finish. Please create a case in the Client Community if you have further questions. ...

WellSky important update System Performance Measures submission period began on October 1, 2021 and will end on February 28, 2022.  CoC's will use a combination of Provider (canned) reports and ART Gallery reports for this year's System Performance Measure reporting submission. Measures 1a and 1b (formerly the 0700 and 07001b reports in the ART Gallery) in Community Services are currently available as a Provider Report.  WellSky is working on several updates to Measures 1a and 1b (summarized below): Addition of requirement for "Yes" filter on Continuum flag on providers Adjustment of code to properly calculate single night ES stays Adjustment of code to propagate Literal Homeless information for members in a household on PH type project stays Adjustment of code to ignore "Metho...

Use this data-sharing framework to advocate for your clients' well-being while protecting their privacy rights. Webcast: HMIS data-sharing principles to address SDoH Thursday, February 17 at 2 pm ET / 11 am PT Originally presented by Dennis Culhane on September 28, 2021 at WellSky's CareForum As communities look to address social determinants of health (SDoH), your agency will need to enhance the way it shares information with healthcare providers and other players in the care continuum. This session will provide an overview of data-sharing approaches for protected or private client information. Topics covered will include: Requirements and exemptions in common privacy laws 3 principles to help you create an ethical data sharing policy Examples of when to use deidentification, ...

WellSky important update WellSky has updated an ART Gallery Report with the following changes: 0630a - Sheltered-Unsheltered PIT 2022 - v28 Updated with 2022 HUD Data Dictionary changes and inclusion of SSVF RRH Emergency Housing Assistance (EHA) clients. Please note that in order for SSVF RRH EHA clients to be counted as Emergency Shelter clients in the PIT report the data must be entered via a specific workflow in Community Services. This is documented in the 0630a User Manual. Please also note that we will be retiring the "0630" version of the report in the near future and it will not be updated with these changes. In order for unsheltered clients to appear in the 0630a report they must be entered into Community Services following a specific workflow. A document des...

WellSky important update WellSky has updated the LSA export in Community Services as of 11:15 AM Central on February 11, 2022 . This update includes HUD Sample Code updates to address Error Flag 448-1 and an update to the method for calculating bed nights created as Service Transactions for Emergency Shelter Night By Night projects which addresses Warning flags 851 and 852.    Due to the applied HUD Sample Code change and change to the WellSky LSA export code, WellSky strongly recommends that each CoC generate a new LSA export for upload into HDX 2.0.  This recommendation does not apply to CoC's that have already cleared all of their Error and Warning flags.    Updates on other common flags for WellSky CoC's: Flag 779 (and other flags related to Head of Household and Clie...

Use this data-sharing framework to advocate for your clients' well-being while protecting their privacy rights. Webcast: HMIS data-sharing principles to address SDoH Thursday, February 17 at 2 pm ET / 11 am PT Originally presented by Dennis Culhane on September 28, 2021 at WellSky's CareForum As communities look to address social determinants of health (SDoH), your agency will need to enhance the way it shares information with healthcare providers and other players in the care continuum. This session will provide an overview of data-sharing approaches for protected or private client information. Topics covered will include: Requirements and exemptions in common privacy laws 3 principles to help you create an ethical data sharing policy Examples of when to use deidentification, ...