All of us working the homeless field understand it is the person experiencing homelessness, not the data, that is the primary focus of the CoC's homeless response system; however, data is a vitally important tool to be used by projects, agencies, and the CoC as a whole to show the picture of homelessness, and responses to it, in a community, agency, and project.
While HMIS data entry is not hard, it is precise
To ensure that all data entered into MD BoS HMIS data creates an accurate picture of how individuals move through the homeless system and visualize system performance, both at the project & system level, it is imperative that the correct data entry workflows are being used.