Quality+Assurance+Committee

**Workgroup Start**: September 2011 **Meeting Frequency**: Quarterly or as deemed necessary by committee members **Committee Chair**: Dee Schweitzer - Quality & Compliance Manager Buckelew (DeeS@Buckelew.org) **CoC Coordinator** - Jenny Abramson (continuumofcare@comcast.net) **HMIS Lead**: Community Development Commission of Sonoma County, Teddie Pierce HMIS Coordinator (teddie.pierce@sonoma-county.org) **Membership:** CoC and other homeless services agencies participating (or interested) in the Sonoma County HMIS are encouraged to have representation on this committee. We currently have representation from the majority of our homeless providers and several local funders - consistent attendance is recommended. A 2013 membership list will be published soon. **Location:** Community Development Commission Hearing Room **Time Commitment**: Meetings generally go for two and a half hours.
 * Quality Assurance (Q/A) Committee of the Sonoma County Continuum of Care **
 * __Mission:__**//The Quality Assurance Committee exists to develop and implement system-wide data standards for all participants in the Sonoma County Homeless Management Information System (HMIS). We work to ensure reliable, dependable data from our HMIS by development and enforcement of standard processes.//
 * __Q/A & the Continuum of Care Steering Committee (CCSC)__****:** //The Q/A Committee shall promulgate and work autonomously on the task of developing and enforcing local data standards; the Committee shall notify the CCSC of any consequences for non-compliance put forth from the Q/A; the CCSC shall hold authority for policy decisions resulting from actions of the Q/A and must be consulted when compliance issues are raised.//
 * Facts:**

If you are interested in serving on the Q/A Committee please contact Dee Schweitzer for further information.


 * 2013 Draft Data Standards - Comments to HUD**

The CoC Quality Assurance Committee comments regarding the 2013 Draft HMIS Data Standards were submitted on Monday, June 3, 2013. Comments were crafted with input from the CoC Quality Assurance Workgroup as well as feedback from a working session at the National Human Services Data Consortium (NHSDC) Spring Conference and the Bay Area Counties Homeless Information Collaborative (BACHIC) meetings. Thank you to our workgroup members for attending the special data standards meeting to assist with these comments. You may download the the documents submitted to HUD below:

Notes for the December 5, 2012 Q/A Committee discussion - //To be posted//
 * Q/A Committee Meeting (Friday December 5, 2012)** - We will be posting an agenda and minutes for this meeting by November 27th


 * Prior Meetings Minutes:**

//(Initial meeting)//