Bitfocus is excited to announce new feature updates for Clarity Human Services! These updates are summarized below. Please visit the links included in each feature summary and at the end of this article for guidance on implementing these new features.    Release Schedule All Training Sites: January 15, 2020 All Production Instances: January 22, 2020   Access Role Customization for Additional Agency Access If a...

  Release Date for All Training Sites: July 16, 2019 Release Date for All Production Instances: July 23, 2019   Bitfocus is excited to announce new feature updates for Clarity Human Services! These updates are summarized below. Please visit the links included in each feature summary for guidance on implementing these new features. You’ll find this guidance in the “New Features” section of each resource.   User Not...

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  Release Date for All Training Sites: April 9, 2019 Release Date for All Production Instances: April 16, 2019   Bitfocus is excited to announce new feature updates for Clarity Human Services! These updates are summarized below. Several Help Center resources have been updated with this release. Please visit the links included in each feature summary for guidance on implementing these new features. You’ll find this...

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  Release Date for All Training Sites: January 10, 2019 Release Date for All Production Instances: January 17, 2019    Ability to Reorder Fields in the Program Eligibility Editor System administrators and managers can now change the order of the requirements fields in the Program Eligibility editor using a simple drag-drop action. (See image below). Before this update, if you wanted to reorder your existing eligib...

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  Release Date for All Training Sites: 9/10 - 9/12 Release Date for All Production Instances: 9/19    1. Referral Updates 1.1 Community Queue - Tracked Characteristics With this new feature, system administrators can add Tracked Characteristics via the Referral Settings section under System Setup. "Tracked Characteristics” are precisely what the name sounds like: characteristics that a system user wants to monitor...

Release Rollout Begins: May 2, 2018 Release Final: May 15, 2018   Release Highlights Bitfocus is excited to announce new feature updates for Clarity Human Services!  We've summarized each updated item below. 1. Visual: Dashboards and Dashboard Management Clarity Human Services now includes Custom Dashboard functionality. This feature allows System Administrators to create a dashboard display that all users will se...

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  At this time, there are no more planned LSA report code changes to be made by Bitfocus.  Communities can begin running new exports immediately, in time for the next soft submission deadline, mentioned below. Regarding CoC HDX submission status, we recommend that CoC's adhere to HUD's guidance sent in an email on 6/12. Here is an excerpt of HUD's guidance below: "...please generate and upload a new LSA file unde...

Privacy policies impact everything we do in Human Services. As a system administrator, you know the challenge of ensuring your policies are clearly and accurately defined, documented, and maintained. Whether you're drafting your policies for the first time or looking to update your current policies, we have a couple upcoming webinars that may be helpful to you. Details below.Data Privacy 101 for Human ServicesTues...

Please note that there will be an update this week within the Clarity Human Services Enrollment, Status, and Exit screens regarding the HUD HMIS Data Standards Element 4.17 Residential Move-In Date. This update will appear for the standard system screens associated with rapid re-housing projects. The field In Permanent Housing will be removed, with only the Date of Move-In field appearing on the screens. Additiona...

As of April 1, 2017, HUD will begin requiring CoC Program grant recipients to submit their APR data through a new online database—the Sage HMIS Reporting Repository. Communities will no longer submit APRs in e-snaps. This change will apply to all CoC homeless assistance grants, regardless of when they were initially funded.If the APR was due before April 1, 2017, and you were late submitting, you will need to subm...

We are pleased to announce the early release of the updated PATH (Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness) Annual Report in BETA mode to all users of the Clarity Human Services software. Our team has developed the PATH APR based on specifications provided to us by HUD, and in alignment with requirements for reporting from HMIS as stated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrati...

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