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Homelessness Prevention Screening

Homelessness Prevention Screening. Using the Screener Implications of the Threshold Score. Purpose of the “Screener” . Target limited Prevention dollars to households who are most likely to become homeless

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Homelessness Prevention Screening

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  1. Homelessness Prevention Screening Using the Screener Implications of the Threshold Score

  2. Purpose of the “Screener” • Target limited Prevention dollars to households who are most likely to become homeless • Utilize criteria that research has found are associated with increased risk of homelessness • Allow Grantees to determine how high they want to set their threshold

  3. Application of the Screener: Applicant #1 Donna Smith Female Veteran, Honorable Discharge. 40% of AMI. Her job hours were cut by 50% recently, she was unable to pay her rent and lost her apartment two months ago. Since then she has been sleeping on her brother’s couch. Her brother’s landlord has told him Ms. Smith cannot remain in the apartment much longer; she should start looking for other housing. She wants SSVF assistance to move into an efficiency that has opened up in her brother’s building.

  4. Application of the Screener: Applicant #2 Norris Brown Qualified Veteran, 20% AMI. He has been living in a motel, paying the full cost, for the past three months. Before that, he was jailed, briefly, for his involvement in a bar fight. Mr. Brown has enough money to pay for three more weeks at the hotel; he is requesting assistance to relocate to an SRO or efficiency.

  5. Application of the Screener: Applicant #3 George and Tamara Davis and Anita (3 years old). George is a qualified Veteran. Household income: 45% AMI The Davis family’s apartment has been condemned due to water damage. They have only 3 days to move out. They spent all their savings to move from another state after George returned from Iraq and are now requesting assistance to find new housing. They also have utility arrears that would have to be paid before they could obtain utilities in another housing unit. They have no family or friends in the state and out-of-state family members are unable to quickly come up with the funds to help the family secure housing.

  6. How the Threshold Works (cont.)

  7. How your SSVF contract proposal affects the screening process….

  8. If you have proposed a special population, you have another, automatic eligibility factor Before you start “scoring” an applicant, s/he must pass Stage One (Eligibility) of the screening process… which includes your program population. How would the program’s <30% AMI requirement impact the three applicant households? Would they be eligibleto be scored with Targeting points?

  9. If you have three applicants for every opening in your program, how will you set your threshold? • If you had set your threshold at 9 points, you would have successfully screened in one of the three households: the Davis family has 9 points. • If your program requires applicants to have incomes <30% AMI, only one of your applicants would pass eligibility and be scored: Norris Brown’s income is 20% AMI. But his score is only 8. X If your program requires <30% AMI *AND* sets a threshold of 9 points, no one would be eligible for the opening.

  10. Now What? • If you have been providing SSVF Prevention assistance for the past year, review the number and profiles of the households who applied and were eligible under your program’s requirements. What % did you have funds to assist? How might they have scored? Where would you set your threshold to screen out a majority of the applicants you had to turn away? • If you are a new SSVF grantee, look at any data sources that might help you estimate the potential volume of applications. If your program will assist a special population, such as <30% AMI, or female Veterans only, etc., you should probably set a lower threshold, as those requirements act as an additional layer of screening.

  11. Next Steps • If you have contract proposal eligibility criteria, you’ll want to add these to your proposed Screening form. • Select the threshold you will propose to VA • Complete the Grantee Screening Criteria and Targeting Threshold Plan form and submit to your RC by November 30th • Receive approval from RC • Begin using the Screener for Prevention applicants

  12. Next Steps (cont.) • You’ll be transmitting the Grantee Screening Criteria and Targeting Threshold Plan to your RC via email or USPS…so… • Please include in your transmittal letter/email: --Brief rationale about how you selected your threshold score AND --Description of how you will track the impact of that score on your SSVF program’s screening, intake and/or caseload

  13. THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING IN THIS WEBINAR! The PowerPoint will be posted on VA’s SSVF Website: www.va.gov/homeless/ssvf.asp Next month’s national call: December 13, 2012 2:00pm – 4:00pm

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