Traditionally, unsheltered Point in Time (PIT) Counts are the result of volunteers conducting an in-person head-count of individuals experiencing homelessness on a single night. This resource-intensive method is widely understood to be an undercount. It also fails to capture essential qualitative data for what people living unsheltered experience and need.

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The COVID-19 pandemic challenged our typical approaches to building community connections in many ways, especially when it comes to collecting feedback from individuals with lived experience of homelessness.

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After using the VI-SPDAT for the last 5 years, it was decided to create a new housing assessment tool (HAT) that focuses on housing people in the most appropriate housing. To do this, we spent the summer of 2021 working with providers, shelter workers, street outreach workers, housing case managers, and program managers to find the quickest way to identify appropriate housing using people-first language.

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Place Value © is a new, original approach to meet HUD’s requirement for a standardized assessment component to Coordinated Entry. Comprised of five scales, Place Value offers thousands of possible score combinations, reducing scoring ties and clarifying referral decisions.

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The Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence (MCEDSV) provides leadership regarding the state’s efforts to end gender-based violence.

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This presentation outlines South Alamo Regional Alliance for the Homeless (SARAH)’s collaboration with the Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame on a pilot prioritization tool to replace the VI-SPDAT with a tool that is both community and data-informed.

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There are many big topics being discussed around the country lately involving racial equity, replacing the VI-SPDAT, and how progress can be made on ending homelessness.

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KCRHA is launching a new outreach initiative this summer to increase service delivery to underserved populations while collaborating with existing outreach teams.

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The purpose of this session is to present a novel way of working with partners to get more done in less time in a streamlined fashion.

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Santa Clara County’s Customer Portal Pilot Program provided opportunities for individuals with lived experience of homelessness to inform and test new technology designed to expand client access and choice.

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Addressing the health-related needs of people experiencing homelessness enables individuals and families to access and retain stable housing.

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In December 2018, the Utah State Legislative Auditor General published an audit describing Utah HMIS data as "impossible to evaluate the state's success over time."

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Across the homelessness response sector, there’s a notional understanding that data is critical to guiding decision-making and communicating with our peers and stakeholders.

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The ever-decreasing housing stock has made local continuum’s look for answers to place those experiencing homelessness into permanent housing solutions.

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Purpose and Learning Objectives: The purpose of this session is to show how healthcare data in rural Mariposa County was leveraged to build community collaboration, design a locally tailored intervention, and monitor and improve a new patient navigation program.

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Jazzing up the Data: Experimentation, Improvisation, and Harmonization

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This year's theme, "Harvesting Connections," serves as a rallying cry, calling us to forge robust data alliances to pave the way toward a future where housing stability and human services are available to everyone.

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