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Dec 9, 2025
The State of HIFIS in Canada
Ever wonder who is using HIFIS across Canada? We've created a map containing the information that we have about communities across Canada.
Did…Read more
The Community Outcomes Report. The Reaching Home Outcomes Report. The Community Homelessness Report. The CAEH Inflow/Outflow Report. The HPP 3. BNL …Read more
Oct 31, 2025
Takeaways from #CAEH25
And that concludes our annual three-day conference in Montreal. It was lovely to connect with everyone! Here are my top takeaways from the conferenc…Read more
Tips and Tricks · Oct 27, 2025
Template Users
A few years back, we posted about the new Clone Users feature in HIFIS. We said how it would help you “drastically reduce your likelihood of configu…Read more
Change Managment · Aug 20, 2025
Should I update to the latest version of HIFIS?
Thinking about updating to a newer version of HIFIS? Not sure what that looks like or how to go about it? In this blog, we’re putting together a han…Read more
Third Party Tools · Jul 21, 2025
Want to learn SQL?
HIFIS is stored in a database called Microsoft SQL Server, which is a database management system. Its “native language,” if you want to think about …Read more
HIFIS has many features that come to access to client files, including:
Clients with “Decline to Share” Consent
Demographic visibility settings
S…Read more
Back in 2018, we originally posted some guidelines on how to handle street outreach in HIFIS 4. Then in 2021, we updated that post. Why did we bothe…Read more
Third Party Tools · Apr 25, 2025
Helpful Tools: Website Monitor
One of the helpful tools that we use over at ACRE Consulting is a website monitoring service. This notifies us when our websites go down, and monito…Read more
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