Coordinated Assessment & Entry

1. Coordinated Assessment & Entry • A coordinated intake or “front door” provides a single or coordinated method by which homeless people and those at risk find and access shelter, housing and or services. • The intake conducts outreach, assessment, initial system intake and program referral and placement.

2. Why? • An clear point of entry for households at risk to access the services they need • Improves the fit between clients and programs • Provides a greater opportunity for up-front. diversion- prevents households from entering the expensive homeless system. • Reduces the duplication of effort for intake and data collection.

3. How and When did this planning start? SLIHC Homeless Reduction Project- Winter 2008 HEARTH Academy- Spring 2011 Coordinated Entry Workgroup- Summer 2011 – December 2011

4. What are our next steps? • Will use a model with strategically placed within existing service sites. • Coordinated Assessment and Entry will focus on households with children and the family shelter system. • Testing the screening/ assessment tool • Program Implementation anticipated Fall 2012

5. Benefits to providers: • More coordinated intake process will take the pressure off of current providers staff to assess eligibility, since everyone needing assistance will be assessed at the front door. • Under a coordinated system, providers will know that the people coming to their programs are already eligible for their services and are a good fit. • Developing a coordinated entry process is one of the many ways a community can incorporate the systems-focused approach encouraged by the HEARTH Act and required by CHG and ESG.

6. Questions?? Coordinated Assessment & Entry Information / Feedback Session Thursday 1/12 10:30 – 12:00 City Hall, Conference Room 5a Please RSVP to smorley@spokanecity.org