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Smarter, Smoother, and More Supportive: Your June 2025 Clarity Update

June 26, 2025

Faster client check-ins, improved data import processes, easier signature collection, and more — Clarity’s getting a handful of care-enhancing updates and upgrades in June 2025. Innovation is one of our favorite words at Bitfocus (so much s...

Smarter, Smoother, and More Supportive: Your June 2025 Clarity Update

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Smarter, Smoother, and More Supportive: Your June 2025 Clarity Update

Faster client check-ins, improved data import processes, easier signature collection, and more — Clarity’s getting a handful of care-enhancing updates...

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Five Strategies for Adapting to Federal Change — Join the Conversation!

In recent months, sweeping changes to the federal government have impacted how CoCs can care for their unhoused populations. But even as workforces ha...

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Coordinated entry

Building a Truly Unified Care Plan: How Your HMIS Can Help

We believe that your HMIS can be the heart of providing unified care: care where every provider in your CoC is aligned, the right information is share...

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HMIS Solution Provider

From Services to Long-Term Stability: How Your HMIS Builds the Bridge

When people experiencing homelessness connect with services, they get housed, find jobs, improve their health, and rebuild their lives. Often, outcome...

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Case Management

Data-Driven Compassion: Combining Human Judgment and Data Analytics for Better CoC Outcomes

Numbers tell compelling stories, but they rarely tell the whole story. While many Continuums of Care (CoCs) rely on sophisticated data systems and rep...

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HMIS Solution Provider

Shared Data Means Shared Power: A Clarity HMIS Partner Success Story

We’re always thrilled to hear about the victories of our partner communities! Today, we’re exploring how our friends in San Diego made great strides t...

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Case Management

Trauma-Informed Data Collection Infrastructure: Leveraging your Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) to Support Trauma-Informed Care

Trauma overwhelmingly and disproportionately impacts people experiencing homelessness. Homelessness itself represents a profound and multifaceted trau...

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Going Beyond the VI-SPDAT

How to Build an Effective and Equitable Assessment Tool

Assessment tools inform one of the most important decisions your community makes: Who gets to benefit from your CoC’s limited resources? When the stak...

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Optimizing Coordinated Entry With Effective HMIS Queue Management

Coordinated entry (CE) requires a great deal of collaboration. Homeless response systems are complex, and many clients receive care at multiple touchp...

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Resource Allocation & Management

Leveraging Real-Time Data to Optimize Shelter Space Management

Overnight shelters serve as more than just a quick fix for people experiencing homelessness. They're a crucial part of a community's social safety net...

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HMIS Solution Provider

Understanding the Role of Data Analytics in Homelessness Policy Evaluation

Policymakers are constantly seeking effective strategies to address the complexities of homelessness. Thankfully, harnessing the power of data analyti...

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HMIS Solution Provider

Enhancing HMIS Data Security with Role-Based Access Control

Increased efficiency, stronger security, improved compliance — these are just a few of the crucial benefits role-based access can create for your orga...

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Outreach

Modernizing Your Outreach Strategy: Lessons from Our New Whitepaper

What does “addressing unsheltered homelessness” mean to you? Ensuring your unhoused neighbors can access potable water? Identifying and mapping encamp...

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HMIS Solution Provider

How GIS Technology Is Revolutionizing Homeless Outreach

Visibility is the basis of meaningful outreach. If your team can’t find vulnerable people, you can’t develop sustainable and effective strategies for ...

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HMIS Solution Provider

Bitfocus Joins with DirectTrust to Enable Closed-Loop Referrals

In October 2022, Bitfocus joined DirectTrust to participate in the new Information Exchange for Human Services (IX4HS) standards development effort. I...

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Whole person care

New Outreach Tools to Transform Your Unsheltered Homelessness Care

Within the homeless services sector, there has been an increased national focus on how to best address the challenge of unsheltered homelessness. The ...

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Whole person care

Optimizing Client & Staff Care While Short Staffed

It’s no secret many organizations are short staffed at the moment. In the human services and nonprofit sector, staff turnover can be high—overburdenin...

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SOC2 Series: Why Data Security Is Crucial for HMIS Comparable Databases

Keeping Domestic Violence (DV) Victims & Their Data Safe DV victims face additional threats when their private data is not properly secured. There...

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