PIT Count Training 2019: Strategies, Subpopulations, and Questions

1. PIT Count Training 2019 Ian Kinder-PyleProgram Coordinator January 24, 2019

2. PIT Count Overview Strategies Subpopulations Questions Agenda

3. January 24, 2019

4. Individuals and households “with a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, including a car, park, abandoned building, bus or train station, airport, or camping ground.” *Vehicles/Boats lacking basic amenities Heating Drinking water Electricity Unsheltered Count

5. RVs (and boats designed to live in) don’t count as unsheltered. However, if the surveyor comes across (or knows about) RVs outside of RV parks that are in such a broken-down or inoperative state that they are no longer fit for human habitation (no longer has the features that distinguish it from a regular vehicle like the ability to cook or bathe) then they do count as unsheltered. Most RVs would not fall in this category – only those that are no better than automobiles or tents with people living there because they have no adequate sheltered options. Mobile homes would not fall into this category and are considered housed. Unsheltered Count

6. Individuals and households living in a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangement (including congregate shelters, transitional housing, and hotels and motels paid for by charitable organizations or by federal, state, or local government programs for low-income individuals).” Sheltered Count

7. A. Persons residing in PSH programs, including persons housed using HUD Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) vouchers. B. Persons residing in RRHD projects, funded in the FY2008 CoC Competition. C. Persons residing in OPH housing, including persons in a GPD Transition in Place (TIP) project on the night of the count. D. Persons counted in any location not listed on the HIC (e.g., staying in projects with beds/units not dedicated for persons who are homeless). E. Persons temporarily staying with family or friends (i.e., “doubled-up” or “couch surfing”). F. Persons residing in housing they rent or own (i.e., permanent housing), including persons residing in rental housing with assistance from a RRH project on the night of the count. G. Persons residing in institutions (e.g., jails, juvenile correction facilities, foster care, hospital beds, detox centers). People Who Must NOT Be Included in the PIT

8. EMERGENCY SHELTER any facility, the primary purpose of which is to provide temporary or transitional shelter for the homeless in general or for specific populations of the homeless. TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: A project that has as its purpose facilitating the movement of homeless individuals and families to permanent housing within a reasonable amount of time (usually 24 months). Transitional housing includes housing primarily designed to serve deinstitutionalized homeless individuals and other homeless individuals with mental or physical disabilities and homeless families with children. Sheltered Count

9. Consistent with the updated 2017 HMIS Data Dictionary, HUD changed the “Don’t identify as male, female, or transgender” gender response option to “Gender Non-Conforming (i.e. not exclusively male or female).” PIT Changes

10. HUD is clarifying that when reporting on any chronically homeless households – whether or not there are children – if one member of the household qualifies as chronically homeless, then all persons in the household should be counted as chronically homeless. PIT Changes

11. Places to count unsheltered persons Agencies to Partner with Faith Based Organization/non HMIS users PATH Outreach Workers School Districts http://www.k12.wa.us/HomelessEd/ContactList.aspx Law Enforcement Hosting Project Connect Events Strategies

12. Recruiting Volunteers Hiring Formerly homeless persons Collecting Information Before the Count https://www.hudexchange.info/faqs/3124/can-i-use-a-phone-or-web-based-survey/ Incentives for clients Collecting Contact Info for clients Rules about Personally Identifying Information/Consent Volunteers & Canvassing

13. De-duplication Using coordinated entry Gender, Race, Ethnicity Upcoming Webinar Trainings How Local Communities Use their Data Data

14. What is the difference between race and ethnicity? Wouldn’t Hispanic or Latino be someone’s race? Do you know if your ancestors were originally from a country like Spain, somewhere in Africa, or are you part of an indigenous group?” Race & Ethnicity https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/hmis-data-standards-faqs-3-4-3-5-3-6.pdf

15. HUD and its federal partners established 2017 as the baseline year for measuring progress in ending youth homelessness in the context of the PIT count. https://www.hudexchange.info/news/improving-our-understanding-of-youth-experiencing-homelessness/ https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/Promising-Practices-for-Counting-Youth-Experiencing-Homelessness-in-the-PIT-Counts.pdf https://www.hudexchange.info/homelessness-assistance/resources-for-homeless-youth/youth-count/ http://voicesofyouthcount.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Voices-of-Youth-Count-Toolkit-FINAL.pdf Youth Count

16. Youth Count

17. Definition A. Is homeless and lives in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter; and B. Has been homeless and living or residing in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter continuously for at least 1 year or on at least four separate occasions in the last 3 years where the combined length of time homeless in those occasions is at least 12 months; and C. Has a disability. For households of more than one person, when one household member qualifies as chronically homeless, all members of that household should be counted as chronically homeless. Chronic Homelessness

18. Presented by: Ian Kinder-PyleProgram Coordinator(360) 725-2976ian.kinder-pyle@commerce.wa.gov www.commerce.wa.gov