Available Courses

This course is a beginner’s introduction to HIFIS 4. In just over an hour, this course covers accessing HIFIS and getting oriented to the layout, as well as understanding client files, communications, and reports: basic information that almost every HIFIS user should know.

This course provides standard training for staff equipped with the Quick Start Shelter Worker rights template developed by ACRE Consulting. In 3.5 hours of content, it covers: adding clients, consent, families, and other client information; shelter operations; providing goods, services, and group activities; the VI-SPDAT assessment; incidents, turnaways, and service restrictions.

This course provides standard training for staff equipped with the Quick Start Day Program Worker rights template developed by ACRE Consulting. In 2 hours of content, it covers: adding clients, consent, families, and other client information; providing goods, services, and group activities; the VI-SPDAT assessment; incidents; and service restrictions.

This course provides standard training for staff equipped with the Quick Start Housing-Based Case Manager rights template developed by ACRE Consulting. In 3 hours of content, it covers: adding clients, consent, families, and other client information; case management; the housing search process; VAT & SPDAT assessments; goods, and financial assistance.

This course provides standard training for staff equipped with the Quick Start Prevention Worker rights template developed by ACRE Consulting. In 2.5 hours of content, it covers: adding clients, consent, families, and other client information; housing loss prevention; providing goods and services; the VI-SPDAT assessment; turnaways, incidents, and service restrictions.

This course includes additional training for staff who use HIFIS for case management. It is intended for staff who work in a role that may not typically include case management (such as shelter workers or day program workers), who have received training for other aspects of HIFIS, and also need to learn case management in HIFIS.

This course includes additional training for any staff who use HIFIS to record health-related information. It is intended for staff who have already received training about the core HIFIS functions. In this course, we will cover such topics as: tracking a client's dietary requirements, recording health issues, noting what medications a client requires, securely dispensing medication to clients, and doing pill counts.

This course includes additional training for shelter staff who also perform supervisory functions. It includes: managing shelter beds; user accounts; service restrictions; coordinated access; and some light administrative tasks.

This course includes additional training for housing-based case management supervisors. It includes: managing the housing unit inventory; user accounts; the directory of services; people; coordinated access; and some light administrative tasks.

This course includes additional training for supervisors. It includes: managing user accounts; the directory of services; people; coordinated access; and some light administrative tasks.

This training covers all administrative functions within HIFIS and is useful for high level system administrators. Topics covered include: service providers; clusters; user accounts; rights; programs; reports; coordinated access; configuration for admissions, housing placements, food banks, waiting lists, and goods and services modules; lookup tables; the directory of services; people; custom tables and questionnaires; and various system settings and administrative tasks.

Total learning time is around 4.5 hours.

This training covers the high-level administrative functions that Community Entities, in their role as a local administrator of the BC Housing instance of HIFIS, might be expected to perform.  Topics covered include: user accounts; programs; reports; configuration for admissions, housing placements, food banks, waiting lists, and goods and services modules; lookup tables; the directory of services; people; custom tables and questionnaires; and various administrative tasks.

Total learning time is around 2.5 hours.