Resource Best Practice: Data Collection and Assessment
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Role of CoC Lead Agencies in Expanding Capacity and Improving Performance
This brief describes activities that local Continuum of Care (CoC) lead agencies, those tasked by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with developing a systemic response to homelessness, can and should take to increase capacity and improve rapid re-housing (RRH) practices and performance.
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Creating Systems That Work
To address homelessness, communities should take a coordinated approach, moving from a collection of individual programs to a community-wide response that is strategic and data driven. Communities that have adopted this approach use data about the needs of those experiencing homelessness to inform how they allocate resources, services, and programs.
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Rapid Re-Housing Performance Evaluation and Improvement Toolkit
Learn how to use your program or system data on rapid re-housing to evaluate and improve services.
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Rapid Re-Housing Performance Benchmarks and Program Standards
Rapid re-housing is an intervention designed to help individuals and families to quickly exit homelessness, return to housing in the community, and not become homeless again in the near term.
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Assessment Tools for Allocating Homelessness Assistance: State of the Evidence
On November 5, 2014, HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, in partnership with the National Alliance to End Homelessness (the Alliance), convened a panel of experts to discuss assessment tools that communities are using to allocate homeless assistance and to consider the evidence base for the questions used in the tools. This report summarizes…
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Recommendations for Effective Implementation of the HEARTH Act Continuum of Care Regulations
The purpose of this document is to help Continuums take advantage of opportunities in the interim Continuum of Care regulations to further the use of national best practices in their communities. The Alliance’s recommendations focus on coordinated assessment, transitional housing, rapid re-housing, and governance and performance measurement. This brief also contains many links to other…
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Performance Improvement Calculator
The Performance Improvement Calculator is an interactive tool that allows communities to use local cost and performance data on homeless programs to model strategies that decrease homelessness.
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What is a Point-in-Time Count?
This resource describes the “point-in-time counts” – the regular count of people experiencing homelessness. The Department of Housing and Urban Development requires communities to submit these counts as part of their application for federal homeless assistance funds.
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Prevention Targeting 101
This brief is a concise how-to guide on how communities can begin or improve efforts to identify and effectively assist the households who are most likely to become homeless and serve them appropriately.
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Coordinated Entry Evaluation Tool
Communities can use this tool as a quick way to assess how well their coordinated entry system is functioning.