Professional Documents
Culture Documents
September 2016
Primary drivers:
Aim:
5 communities at
FZ and
3 communities at
robust CE by
Dec 31, 2016
Reducing Inflow
Accelerating Housing
Placements
Integrating GPD
1) Outcome measures
Three-pronged
measurement strategy
Secondary Drivers
Diversion
Primary Driver
Reducing Inflow
Prevention
Primary driver
Reducing Inflow
Measures:
Getting Started
Establish a refined understanding of scenarios in which
veterans are entering the homeless system by evaluating the
following data points for the last 90 days
Data Points
Diversion, Prevention
Upstream Interventions
Primary driver
Reducing Inflow
Measures:
Diversion
Change Ideas
Bright Spots
Cleveland
Tacoma, Washington
Resources
Prevention targeting
101
Diversion Overview
SSVF Prevention
Screening Toolkit
NAEH Assessment
Tool
Primary driver
Reducing Inflow
Some communities will never reach functional zero without
better understanding the reasons for homelessness in their
community and decreasing the number of veterans that become
homeless each month.
Secondary driver
Diversion
Measures:
# of veterans newly identified
# of veterans returning from housed
# of veterans returning from inactive
Bright Spots
Resources
Change Ideas
Implementing
Systematic Diversion
Cleveland, OH
Tacoma, Washington
Cleveland
Presentation
Primary driver
Reducing Inflow
Some communities will never reach functional zero without
better understanding the reasons for homelessness in their
community and decreasing the number of veterans that become
homeless each month.
Secondary driver
Prevention
Change Ideas
Measures:
# of veterans newly identified
# of veterans returning from housed
# of veterans returning from inactive
Bright Spots
Resources
SSVF Prevention
Screening Toolkit
NAEH Assessment
Tool
Risk Factors for
Veterans
Prevention targeting
101
Primary driver
Reducing Inflow
Some communities will never reach functional zero without
better understanding the reasons for homelessness in their
community and decreasing the number of veterans that become
homeless each month.
Secondary driver
Prevention
Change Ideas
Use SSVF data to advocate for resources: # of clients that meet stage 1
(initial eligibility threshold) screening but not stage 2 targeting (prioritization)
Measures:
# of veterans newly identified
# of veterans returning from housed
# of veterans returning from inactive
Bright Spots
Resources
SSVF Prevention
Screening Toolkit
NAEH Assessment
Tool
Risk Factors for
Veterans
Prevention targeting
101
Primary driver
Reducing Inflow
Some communities will never reach functional zero without
understanding the reasons for homelessness in their community
and decreasing the number of veterans that become homeless
each month.
Secondary driver
Change Ideas
Measure(s):
# of veterans newly identified
# of veterans returning from housed
# of veterans returning from inactive
Bright Spots
Los Angeles, CA
Jacksonville, FL
Resources
Critical Time
Intervention
Innovation
Warning: do try these ideas unless you are a cutting edge innovator!
These are fully untested ideas that are floating around the thought
stream and ready to be pulled down and tested with the right
community.
Untested Change Ideas
1.
2.
Evaluating Inflow
Upstream Interventions
Secondary drivers
Primary driver
Accelerating
Housing Placements
Primary driver
Measures:
# of permanent housing placements
Change Ideas
Bright Spots
Resources
Housing Navigator
Tool
Los Angeles
Landlord Toolkit
Primary driver
Measures:
# of permanent housing placements
Change Ideas
Bright Spots
Richmond
Resources
Housing Navigator
Tool
Landlord Toolkit
Primary driver
Measures:
# of permanent housing placements
Change Ideas
Bright Spots
San Diego
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New York
Resources
Landlord Toolkit
Primary driver
Measures:
rental histories.
Secondary driver
Change Ideas
Bright Spots
San Diego:
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Resources
Landlord Toolkit
Risk Mitigation Fund
Examples
Primary driver
Measures:
# of permanent housing placements
Change Ideas
Bright Spots
San Diego:
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Honolulu
Roanoke
Resources
Landlord Toolkit
Housing Navigator
Tool
Primary driver
Secondary driver
Targeted and adequate
housing resources
Measures:
# of permanent housing placements
# of days from ID to housing
% of community PSH dedicated to
non-health care eligible veterans
Bright Spots
Resources
San Diego:
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Landlord Toolkit
Change Ideas
Primary driver
Secondary driver
Targeted and adequate
housing resources
Measures:
# of permanent housing placements
# of days from ID to housing
% of community PSH dedicated to
non-health care eligible veterans
Bright Spots
Change Ideas
Resources
Primary driver
Measures:
Secondary driver
Coordination between veteran-serving
organizations and services
Change Ideas
Bright Spots
Honolulu, HI
Resources
Primary driver
Measures:
# of permanent housing placements
# of days from ID to housing
Secondary driver
Coordination between veteran-serving
organizations and services
Bright Spots
Change Ideas
Resources
Innovation
Warning: do try these ideas unless you are a cutting edge innovator!
These are fully untested ideas that are floating around the thought
stream and ready to be pulled down and tested with the right
community.
Untested Change Ideas
Convene a regular housing locator meeting to share effective
practices and available units
Secondary drivers
Local buy-in and leadership
Primary driver
Integrating GPD
Sequencing:
1.
Primary driver
Measures:
% of exits to PH (Performance)
Avg length of stay
Monthly occupancy rate
Getting Started
To identify areas for improvement, work with
the local VAMC to pull the following data
points for the last 90 days in aggregate and by
agency:
1.
2.
3.
% of exits to PH,
Average length of stay
Monthly occupancy rate
Primary driver
Change Ideas
Measures:
% of exits to PH (Performance)
Avg length of stay
Monthly occupancy rate
Bright Spots
Washington D.C.
Ann Arbor
Denver
Resources
VA letter of support
for GPD
improvements
Primary driver
Change Ideas
Measures:
% of exits to PH (Performance)
Avg length of stay
Monthly occupancy rate
Bright Spots
Washington D.C.
Ann Arbor
Denver
Resources
VA letter of support
for GPD
improvements
Primary driver
Change Ideas
Measures:
% of exits to PH (Performance)
Avg length of stay
Monthly occupancy rate
Bright Spots
Washington D.C.
Ann Arbor, MI
Philadelphia, PA
Denver, CO
Resources
Primary driver
Change Ideas
Measures:
% of exits to PH (Performance)
Avg length of stay
Monthly occupancy rate
Bright Spots
Honolulu (US Vets)
Resources
VA Guidance in Using
GPD as Bridge
Housing
Guidance on
Changes to Scope of
Service
Primary driver
Change Ideas
% of exits to PH (Performance)
Avg length of stay
Monthly occupancy rate
Bright Spots
Measures:
Resources
Primary driver
Secondary driver
Data-driven conversion
to other models
Measures:
% of exits to PH (Performance)
Avg length of stay
Monthly occupancy rate
Bright Spots
Resources
Change Ideas
VA/HUD Guidance
VA Guidelines for TIP
Primary driver
Secondary driver
Housing Focused
Program and Culture
Measures:
% of exits to PH (Performance)
Avg length of stay
Monthly occupancy rate
Bright Spots
Change Ideas
Honolulu, US Vets
Resources
Primary driver
Secondary driver
Housing Focused
Program and Culture
Measures:
% of exits to PH (Performance)
Avg length of stay
Monthly occupancy rate
Change Ideas
Bright Spots
Honolulu, US Vets
Resources
Primary driver
Secondary driver
Housing Focused
Program and Culture
Measures:
% of exits to PH (Performance)
Avg length of stay
Monthly occupancy rate
Bright Spots
Change Ideas
Honolulu, US Vets
Resources
Innovation
Warning: do try these ideas unless you are a cutting edge innovator!
These are fully untested ideas that are floating around the thought
stream and ready to be pulled down and tested with the right
community.
Untested Change Ideas
1.
2.
Employment strategies
Long-term housing stability
Secondary driver
System coverage
Primary driver
Robust CES