FY 2022 HMIS Data Standards Changes – Materials Available and Important Updates
As announced in previous newsletter articles, the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Minnesota and HUD HMIS Data Standards go into effect on Friday, October 1, 2021. This article includes important information about new FY 2022 HMIS materials and other related updates.
New Materials
The FY 2022 Minnesota HMIS Data Standards Guide is now available and reflects the FY 2022 HMIS Data Standards changes. This version of the guide will be effective on October 1, 2021 and will replace the previous version. Review the Supplemental Guide - FY22 HMIS Data Standards Changes for an overview of all universal & program specific data element changes and Community Services (formerly ServicePoint) data entry instructions for those changes. Please bookmark the FY 2022 HUD and MN HMIS Data Standards Changes page to keep up to date on all the materials ICA is releasing. And of course, don’t forget about the required 2021 Re-certification Training that is now available in Moodle!
System Downtime
To apply the data standards changes to Minnesota’s HMIS, our vendor may require system downtime. We will be sure to alert you to any potential system downtime and known timelines via our newsletter.
Upcoming ESG CAPER or CoC APR Deadline?
We recommend that communities with ESG CAPER/CoC APR deadlines near the end of September and beginning of October submit their reports into Sage before October 1, 2021 to avoid any unnecessary delays caused by transitions to the FY2022 versions of the report and changes in Sage.
Impact on ART Reports
As with every year’s HMIS data standards changes, ART reports must be updated with the new data standards. In the event ART reports are offline while this transition occurs, ICA will utilize the REPORTcollection, as we have done in past data standards updates, to indicate what is offline, what needs updating, when we anticipate updating each one based on a triage, and when that update is complete. (For interested users, you can read up on how the Reporting & Evaluation team approached the FY 2020 changes by checking out this past newsletter article.)