Ottawa: Community Progress Indicators

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2		Chronic Community Progress Indicators:			Ottawa
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5		Chronic Community Progress Indicators
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7	Summary				POPULATION:	Chronic
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9				Chronic	ACTIVE CHRONIC HOMELESS & BASELINE REDUCTIONS
10	Date joined:			Apr 2015	This chart displays all chronic active homeless data from the baseline date until the most recent month submitted.
11	Quality By-Name List:			Jun 2018
12	QBNL Baseline			Jan 2020
13	Quality Coordinated Access:			Oct 2022
14	Community contact:		Sébastien Momy
15	sebsatien.momy@ottawa.ca
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18	Our Data Story
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20	Jul 2017	Began submitting data to BFZ-C
21	Jun 2018	Achieved a Quality By-Name List and established chronic baseline month as June 2018
22	Jan 2020	Updated chronic baseline month as numbers increased signficantly when the commuinty began including individual families members to the BNL
23	Aug 2021	Achieved 10% reduction below chronic baseline. Held at 10% or more below baseline for 19 months with March 2022 the lowest at 26% below
24	Jan 2023	Increase above 10% below baseline threshold due largely to increases in the number of families experiencing chronic homelessness
25	Sept 2023	While it appears there is a return to 10% below baseline, the change in data is primarily due to improvements in the way that data is being recorded. New providers are using HIFIS and move-ins are being recorded in real-time using the Housing History module. Based on these significant changes in data processes, Ottawa will be looking to reset their baseline in Q2 of 2024.
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33	Definitions
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35	Chronic Homelessness		Refers to individuals who are currently experiencing homelessness AND who meet at least 1 of the following criteria: • they have a total of at least 6 months (180 days) of homelessness over the past year; or • they have recurrent experiences of homelessness over the past 3 years, with a cumulative duration of at least 18 months (546 days). For more information regarding the definition of chronic homelessness, visit the Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness Strategy Directives.
36	Actively Homeless		The total number of people experiencing homelessness at the end of the reporting month. This includes those who have had at least 1 stay in the last 90 days. For more information regarding the definition of actively homeless, visit the CAEH Data Reliability Tool.
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