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1 | Single Adults By-Name List Scorecard | ||||||
2 | Community: | Northwest Louisiana CoC | 6-Month Aim | Current By-Name List Score | |||
3 | Lead Agency Managing BNL: | HOPE Connections | Report data by February 10, 2022 and get to a score of __ by April 15, 2022. | 28 | |||
4 | Name: | Christa Pazzaglia | |||||
5 | Email: | christa@nwlahope.org | |||||
6 | The scorecard questions - and your community's current answers from the ISS Scorecard tab - are listed below. | ||||||
7 | Improvement Area | # | Question | Current Response | Resources | ||
8 | Data Contribution | 1A | Is the geographic coverage of your outreach clearly mapped out, informed by your data and regularly assessed, to ensure you are able to reach all unsheltered individuals within your community. | Yes | Have a map of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness (mapster). | ||
9 | 1B | Have you coordinated your outreach, ensuring that your outreach teams are deployed at the locations and the times that they are mostly likely to effectively engage with unsheltered homeless individuals, while minimizing duplication between providers? | Yes | Services are coordinated at a monthly meeting. Duplication of services is addressed in this meeting. Services do not overlay exactly with the map of people experiencing homelessness, but there are lines of communication for referrals. ACTION STEP: Ensure the processes for coordination and managing duplication are covered in the outreach policy. | |||
10 | 1C | Do you have a documented outreach policy that clearly states how your outreach teams will be deployed and how they work with each other to swiftly connect individuals to their self-determined needs? | Yes | Community uses PATH guidance as outreach policy | |||
11 | 1D | Do you have consistent, coordinated and reliable outreach and in-reach efforts across your geographic coverage area that gives you confidence that at least 90% of the unsheltered population is captured on your BNL? | Yes | ||||
12 | 2A | Are 90% of CoC-funded and non-CoC-funded providers reporting data into your by-name list? | Yes | Per the Provider Participation Inventory community has 90% participation | |||
13 | 2B | Are approximately 90-100% of currently homeless single adult individuals served by the providers reporting into your by-name list? | Yes | Per the Provider Participation Inventory community has 93% contribution | |||
14 | 3A | Is your by-name list able to collect data on all currently homeless single adults in your community, including unsheltered individuals living in a place not meant for human habitation (e.g. street, cars, campsites, beaches, deserts or riverbeds)? | No | 11/10 flipped to n0 - document local policies and protocols on including unsheltered homeless data on BNL | |||
15 | 3B | Is your by-name list able to collect data on all currently homeless single adults in your community, including individuals in shelters, safe havens, season overflow beds, hotels paid for by homeless providers or Health Care for Homeless Veterans (HCHV) beds? | Yes | ||||
16 | 3C | Is your by-name list able to collect data on all currently homeless single adults in your community, including individuals in transitional housing, including VA-funded Transitional Housing? | Yes | ||||
17 | 3D | Is your by-name list able to collect data on all currently homeless single adults in your community, including individuals fleeing domestic violence? | Yes | ||||
18 | 4A | Has your community established a written policy that specifies the number of days of inactivity (i.e. the person cannot be located) after which a person’s status will be changed to “inactive,” and which includes protocols to attempt to locate an individual before they are moved to inactive status? | Yes | Inactive policy finalized and approved | |||
19 | 4B | Does that written policy account for changing an individual’s status to ‘inactive’ based on a client’s verified absence from the community before the specified number of days has elapsed? (e.g. reunited with family in a different community, death etc.) | Yes | Inactive policy finalized and approved | |||
20 | 4C | Does that written policy account for individuals on your list who are entering an institution (e.g. jail or hospital) where they are expected to remain for 90 days or fewer? | Yes | Inactive policy finalized and approved | |||
21 | 5 | Does your community have a way to track actively homeless individuals who have not consented to services and/or assessment at this time? | Yes | PATH guidance is followed | |||
22 | Data Infrastructure | 6 | Does your community have policies and protocols in place for keeping your by-name list up to date and accurate, including timelines for provider data submission and ongoing quality assurance protocol? | Yes | BNL data quality addendum developed and reviewed with BFZ staff. | ||
23 | 7 | Does your community’s by-name list track the 'homeless / housed status' of all individuals, including the date each status was last changed and the previous status? Homeless status fields should include at minimum: homeless, inactive and permanently housed. | Yes | Wellsky report allows for historical and current status' to be reviewed for those experiencing active homelessness | |||
24 | 8 | Does your community’s by-name list include a unique identifier (e.g. an HMIS ID) for each individual to prevent duplication of client records and facilitate coordination between providers? | Yes | Wellsky report pulls data from HMIS, incuding HMIS ID | |||
25 | 9 | Does your by-name list track the total number of newly identified (not necessarily assessed) individuals experiencing homelessness every month? This figure represents a portion of your monthly inflow. | Yes | Wellsky report pulls all individuals who have a new enrollment (including outreach) onto the BNL | |||
26 | 10 | Does your community's by-name list track individuals returning to active homelessness within the past month? | Yes | Wellsky report tracks returns from housed and inactive | |||
27 | 11A | Does your community’s by-name list track individuals as they move out of active homeless status, including those who move in to permanent housing? | Yes | Wellsky report tracks those who have moved into PH | |||
28 | 11B | Does your community’s by-name list track individuals as they move out of active homeless status, including those who become inactive, per your inactive policy? | Yes | Wellsky report is aligned with inactive policy | |||
29 | 11C | Does your community’s by-name list track individuals as they move out of active homeless status, including those who no longer meet the population criteria of single adult? | Yes | Wellsky report allows for this, but does not produce the information automatically. Community has ability to track this manually | |||
30 | 12A | Does your by-name list track population-based statuses including: veteran, chronic, youth, family with minor children? | Yes | Yes, subpopulation and population data are pulled into HMIS report | |||
31 | 12B | Can your by-name list track people with multiple population-based statuses (e.g. chronic homeless status AND veteran status)? | Yes | Yes, subpopulation and population data are pulled into HMIS report | |||
32 | 12C | Can your by-name list track historical changes in activity status (e.g. Active to Inactive, Active to Housed, etc.)? | Yes | Wellsky report allows for historical and current status' to be reviewed for those experiencing active homelessness | |||
33 | 12D | Can your by-name list track individuals who become chronically homeless after they are added to your all singles list? | Yes | Wellsky report includes a calculation to show who has aged into chronicity during a current episode of homelessness. | |||
34 | 12E | Can your by-name list track individuals who are initially assigned chronic or veteran status when they enter your system but later do not meet the criteria for these population statuses? | Yes | BFZ Inflow/Outflow report allows for this, but it is not done automatically. Team has tools and skills to do this review | |||
35 | Race Equity | 13A | Does your community have a way to report race and ethnicity data on the individuals on the by-name list for the purpose of analyzing system outcomes? | Yes | BNL pulls HMIS data onto report, including race and ethnicity | ||
36 | 13B | Does your data collection policy and process around race and ethnicity respect the self-identification of clients? | Yes | BNL pulls HMIS data onto report, including race and ethnicity | |||
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