Set up a Housing Facility
Complete the steps in this topic to create or edit your agency's housing facilities. Note the facilities referred to in this article are not Residential Facilities or Group Homes, but independent or semi-independent housing that may or may not be owned by the Agency but with which you contract to place clients.
Add a Housing Facility
- Navigate to the following path: Agency > Housing/Apartments > General Information.
- In the toolbar, click the Facility button.
- In the Facility search dialog, invoke a search then click New.
- Enter information in the following required fields.
- Name - Name to Identify the Facility.
- Region - This is a field that may use if you want to assign different geographical areas for your facilities (i.e. for reporting purposes). If this does not apply to your agency, simply select N/A from the pick-list.
- Office Responsible - The office that oversees this facility.
- Programs/Services Operated - Lists the Programs that operate through this facility.
- Enter information in the following additional fields as appropriate:
- ID# - Enter an ID number used to make the facility unique. The could be an internally decided upon id or a license number. If you use more than one id, you can add a second id in the Other ID# field. For example, you may identify this facility as 11111, but it's certification # may be 22222. You can use this field and the Other ID# field to hold these values.
- Vendor For Payments (Enterprise Edition Only) - The GL code that identifies where clients are served or placed. (Foster homes will get theirs from the managing office associated to the home).
- Address - Enter the address of the facility. After you enter the zip code, the city and state is automatically populated.
- Status - Notes whether the facility is Open/Reopened or Closed. You can also enter in a Reason for Status.
- Additional Information - A remarks type field allowing you to add any additional information about the facility.
- Click Save.