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VESTA Features
- Compatibility with HUD's standards for a Homeless Management
Information System (HMIS). Updated to the newest data standards released by HUD
in 2010.
- Intake and exit Wizards that guides users through screens
designed to capture required information.
- Customizable data fields for
each agency and program that uses the system allowing for program differences within a single agency.
- A Homeless Certification System
that enables users to certify clients, in accordance with HUD requirements, as homeless and eligible
for HUD housing and services.
- A community resource database
that supports multiple cross system and cross agency data sharing arrangements.
- A confidential system that
includes password protection, digital certificates, client consent, client and user data security levels,
and other system security features.
- Pre-programmed reports that
correspond to current government mandates and funding requirements and agency needs along with the ability
for users to generate report information to meet their internal and external needs.
- A "back-office" system that
allows multiple prevention agencies to request payments through one central bookkeeper.
- Document storage capacity
that enables users to upload documents into a client file for electronic storage.
- A "bed finder" that enables
a centralized access system to reserve a specific bed within an emergency shelter and transfer the screening
information to that agency for intake.
- Fields are integrated with RHYMIS the Runaway and Homeless Youth Management Infromation
System allowing data to be exported to RHYMIS for those programs
requiring that functionality.
- Custom fields are designed for street outreach programs to support outreach reporting as required by HUD, RHYMIS and PATH.
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