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SOLANO HMIS · CLARITY HUMAN SERVICES · WORKFLOW GUIDE
A governance-first guide for discussing how a proposed confirmed-handoff workflow could operate alongside Solano County’s Clarity Human Services HMIS without replacing HMIS, Coordinated Entry, or local administrator authority.
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THE LOCAL SYSTEM
Housing First Solano states that Solano County uses Clarity Human Services for HMIS. The official Solano HMIS site describes HMIS as the secure database used to record local homelessness services and identifies Bitfocus as the system administrator.
Operation Iron Gate is not currently integrated with Clarity Human Services. This guide is a proposed governance and workflow map for authorized discussion with Solano HMIS administrators. Any configuration, data exchange, field mapping, access, or testing would require administrator approval and applicable privacy rules.
PROPOSED HANDOFF SEQUENCE
The workflow begins only after an authorized referral. HMIS retains the official client and program record. A narrow companion record would track acknowledgment and next action using only information approved for that purpose.
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The sending organization follows existing HMIS, Coordinated Entry, consent, and program rules before any companion handoff record is opened.
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Administrators identify the smallest permitted set: referral identifier, sending role, receiving role, timestamps, status, and next action.
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The receiving organization records whether the referral was received and whether contact or another authorized step occurred.
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The agreed status returns to the governed record or reporting process without changing HMIS ownership or local authority.
BOUNDARIES TO APPROVE
This guide does not prescribe a technical connection. It identifies the governance decisions that must come first.
AUTHORITY
Solano HMIS administrators decide what remains authoritative in Clarity and what, if anything, may be referenced elsewhere.
PRIVACY
Administrators and participating organizations define consent, role access, sensitive-program restrictions, retention, correction, and audit rules.
INTEROPERABILITY
Any use of an export, import, or API would follow Bitfocus documentation and local approval. No method is assumed or active.
1. Which referral events already exist in the approved Clarity workflow?
2. Which acknowledgments or next actions are not visible today?
3. What minimum fields may be shared, by whom, and for how long?
4. Who approves configuration, testing, reporting definitions, and corrections?
The working room
GATEHOUSE is where the agencies, hospitals, churches and neighbors working on referrals in Vallejo and Solano County talk it through. It is the part of Operation Iron Gate that is open today, and what members say decides what we build next.
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