RHY Street Outreach

RHY Street Outreach Program Enrollments

Please refer to the Standard Street Outreach guide for general guidance the HMIS street outreach workflow. Below is additional information specific to RHY funded projects.

The Project start date is the date of first contact with the client. SOP projects should record a separate contact in addition to the Project Start Date.

Street Outreach Program grantees are expected to capture as much information as is possible at the initial interaction with the client. However, given the nature of street outreach, RHY SOP, like all other street outreach projects in HMIS may gather and enter/edit much of the information over multiple interactions or contacts. Grantees should enter and edit the data as they become aware of it. Initial name records may, for example, be “Youth in Raiders cap.” Upon further interactions, the case manager might be able to fully engage the youth to create a full named record in HMIS

Recording Contacts using Current Living Situation Assessment

Current Living Situation is located in the Client's Program Enrollment.

Understanding Households for RHY

All HMIS systems place individual clients in households. A household may be a single person household (i.e., an unaccompanied youth) or a household with multiple persons (i.e., household of a parenting youth and child or children). Where two or more youth under age 18 present at a project together without children, each youth should be entered in their own household. In this way, all elements required to be collected for youth by RHY grantees should be visible for data collection in HMIS as each youth is their own Head of Household.

RHY Specific Data Elements

In addition to the HMIS Core Data Elements, RHY grantees are required to collect the following data elements.

Street Outreach RHY funded Services

RHY funded services are recorded under the Program Enrollment.

Recording RHY Street Outreach Exits

For SOP, the exit date should be the date in which the Street Outreach worker is able to transfer the case to another youth provider case worker (shelter, transitional housing, permanent housing) or no longer needs to provide services to the youth. A client with an open record (i.e., project start without a project exit) for a community-defined extensive length of time or longer than 90-days in outreach may be either automatically exited from the project or may be flagged for HMIS end user intervention and exit, depending on the functionality the HMIS supports. The CoC may be involved in the determination of “extended length of time” and to which projects the solution is to be applied. The exit date should be the last day a contact was made.

RHY Street Outreach