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HMIS Project Management Topics and Tools
This paper provides guidance to CoCs implementing HMIS in their communities and assists HMIS project managers by describing primary tasks associated with managing an HMIS and providing sample documents to support those activities.
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A Guide to Counting Unsheltered Homeless People
This guide describes several methods for identifying, counting, and learning about homeless people who are unlikely to be found in shelters or in other residential programs within a local homeless assistance network.
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Homeless Management Information Systems: Implementation Guide Communities can use HUD's HMIS Implementation Guide to assist in the implementation of an HMIS system. The guide covers topics that span the whole implementation process including planning for an HMIS, designing the system, selecting software, funding the system and the implementation of the system.
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HMIS Consumer Guide
The Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) Consumer Guide: A Review of Available HMIS Solutions contains an in-depth review of 11 HMIS software solutions. It discusses the range of technical, functional, and other considerations involved in software selection and examines each solution in light of these considerations. Communities' operational needs, system requirements, technical capabilities, and financial resources vary. The document provides useful information to assist readers during the HMIS selection process. Readers should use this guide to understand the range of products that are available and to narrow their search to those systems that have features and performance consistent with local requirements. The guide should not be used exclusively to select a system. It does not contain an exhaustive review of all HMIS software applications. HUD does not endorse or recommend specific solutions.

• The Electronic Consumer Guide, an interactive version of the HMIS Consumer Guide described above, is available for communities to download. This interactive guide allows Continuums to review vendors and software, assess the Continuum's system needs, and prepare an HMIS cost estimate. Installation instructions are available with the document.

Cost Estimates
HUD's Cost Estimate Guide offers a set of guidelines to assist SHP applicants in developing costs proposals for their grant applications. The document contains possible cost items and cost categories and provides recommendations on how to collect cost estimation data.
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HMIS Program Materials

HMIS Data Integration XML Schema
HMIS implementations across the country are struggling with the challenge of data integration. The goal of this XML schema and the supporting documents in the package is to provide technical guidance from a national, software-neutral source and achieve economies of scale by relieving communities and vendors of the burden of developing separate specifications and solutions for the same need.
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Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) Integration Strategies and Solutions
This report highlights HMIS integration strategies and solutions that communities can use to address local data integration challenges.
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2002 Technical Submission
The 2002 Technical Submission is for agencies that receive funding for HMIS in the 2002 Homeless Assistance grant competition.
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