Continuum DV Silo — a hard-isolated comparable database for survivors

The Continuum DV Silo is a separate, hard-isolated data area for domestic-violence service providers. Under VAWA and FVPSA, a DV program cannot enter client data into a shared Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) by-name list — it has to keep a comparable database that shares no identifiers with the main system. The DV Silo is that comparable database.

Why it is a silo, not a filter:

The isolation is enforced at the rules layer, in separate top-level collections — not by a checkbox on shared records. Data in the DV Silo has no shared identifiers with the main HMIS by-name list, which is exactly the VAWA/FVPSA posture. There is no query that can join a survivor's record back to the community's shared list, because the records don't live in the same place.

What you run inside it:

Your DV program runs its own by-name work — intakes, services, and reporting — entirely within the silo, so aggregate reporting is possible without ever exposing a survivor's identity to the wider Continuum of Care.

Availability:

This is a beta-held capability. It stays gated until a partner DV agency and state VAWA technical-assistance staff have signed off on the isolation model, because getting this wrong has real safety consequences for the people it protects. If you run a DV program and want to be part of that review, reach out through your Continuum administrator.