Getting started
Getting started with Housing & Homelessness HMIS Wrapper
What Housing & Homelessness HMIS Wrapper is for, who uses it, what you need before you start, and your first steps.
Applies to Housing & Homelessness HMIS Wrapper as it works today. Moraph updates the platform continuously, and this page is reviewed when it changes.
The Housing & Homelessness HMIS Wrapper sits alongside your Continuum of Care's Homeless Management Information System and lets partner agencies coordinate around each client under the consent the client has given. Shelters, outreach teams, health and social service partners share what each client has agreed to share, and public safety partners can refer people to outreach without seeing their records. Every share, view and referral is recorded, so the HMIS lead can show that data moved only as clients and agreements allowed.
What it is for
People experiencing homelessness are served by many organizations at once: shelters, street outreach, health clinics, social services and, often, police or crisis responders. Each holds part of the picture, and the HMIS is not set up for fine-grained, consent-based sharing with partners outside it. So information is passed by phone and email with no record of what was shared or why, police calls about people in crisis do not reach outreach teams, and agencies hesitate to share at all for fear of breaching privacy rules.
- Client consent is recorded on paper or not at all, and is hard to check before sharing
- Partners outside the HMIS coordinate by phone and email with no record
- Public safety contacts with unhoused people rarely become referrals to outreach
- Agencies cannot show who saw a client's information or why
Who uses it
- HMIS leads and Continuum of Care staff
- Shelter, outreach and housing program staff at partner agencies
- Coordinated entry teams who assess and prioritize clients for housing
- City and county human services, health and public safety departments
- Privacy officers who answer for how client data is shared
Before you start
- Your organization licenses Housing & Homelessness HMIS Wrapper from Moraph.
- A Moraph client account in that organization, signed in.
- Access to Housing & Homelessness HMIS Wrapper in Moraph Apps, given by an administrator in the Moraph Portal under People and access.
- For setup: the product administrator role.
Steps to get started
Sign in at app.moraph.com with your Moraph account.
Open Housing & Homelessness HMIS Wrapper from the launcher. The first time anyone opens it, its workspace is created from the default described in Workspace reference.
Check your role: what you can see and do depends on it. See Roles and permissions.
Product administrators: work through Set up Housing & Homelessness HMIS Wrapper before your team starts.
Everyone else: start with Everyday tasks.
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