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Point-in-Time Count

Point-in-Time Count. Greater Richmond Continuum of Care Meeting January 23, 2014. Background. The point-in-time (PIT) count is a one day count of people experiencing homelessness in our community.

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Point-in-Time Count

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  1. Point-in-Time Count Greater Richmond Continuum of Care Meeting January 23, 2014

  2. Background • The point-in-time (PIT) count is a one day count of people experiencing homelessness in our community. • Communities that receive HUD funding for homelessness are required to count those experiencing homelessness during the last 10 days in January every year. (We also do a count in July.) • The PIT is conducted in conjunction with gathering data for the Housing Inventory Chart (HIC), also required by HUD. • Rapid rehousing (RRH) providers supply information about the number of people currently housed who are still being served. • Permanent supportive housing (PSH) programs provide information about the number of people currently being served, as well as capacity. • This particular data is not included in the PIT numbers

  3. Who is counted? • Our goal is to count all people in the continuum who meet HUD’s criteria for homelessness. This includes individuals and families: • “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)” on the night of the count (HUD, 2014 guidance) • “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” on the night of the count (HUD, 2014 guidance) NOT: staying with family or friends NOT: living in motel using their own money NOT: living in crowded or substandard conditions

  4. HUD Required Data • CoCs are required to report on the number of people in each household type by age category (under 18, 18-24, 25+), race, gender, and ethnicity for all people and for veterans. • Household types are: • People in households with at least one adult and one child • People in households without children • People in households with only children

  5. HUD Required Data • A count of the following sheltered and unsheltered subpopulations is required for all people and on veterans for: • Chronically homeless individuals • Chronically homeless families • Adults with a serious mental illness • Adults with a substance use disorder • Adults with HIV/AIDS • Victims of domestic violence (optional)

  6. Chronically Homeless Definition • For a household to be considered chronically homeless, it must include at least one adult member who has a: • disabling condition (defined as "a diagnosable substance use disorder, serious mental illness, developmental disability, or chronic physical illness or disability, including the co-occurrence of two or more of these conditions”) that is expected to be of “long-continuing or indefinite duration” AND • has been continuously homeless for a year or more OR • has had a least four (4) episodes of homelessness in the past three (3) years. • To be considered chronically homeless, households must have been sleeping in a place not meant for human habitation (e.g., living on the streets) and/or in an emergency shelter/Safe Haven during that time (i.e., not in transitional housing).

  7. Details • This year’s PIT will take place on Thursday, January 30, 2014. • This means that anyone who is homeless on the night of January 30th should be counted. • Sheltered numbers for agencies that use HMIS come from HMIS; providers that do not use HMIS submit a bedcount form. • Surveys are conducted in all emergency/transitional housing/Safe Haven programs. • Unsheltered numbers come from surveys of people living in unsheltered conditions. Besides covering all of the local lunch/dinner meals programs, outreach is done in the City, Henrico, and Chesterfield counties; Departments of Social Services in these areas, plus Hanover and the outlying counties (New Kent, Powhatan, Goochland, and Charles City) survey and/or report their numbers.

  8. Performance Targets USICH Goals: End chronic homelessness by the end of 2015 End veteran homelessness by the end of 2015 End family homelessness by the end of 2020

  9. I: Increase progress towards ending chronic homelessness • Chronically homeless (CH) #s from January 2013 PIT: • 49 CH individuals, 3 CH families • Beds dedicated to CH individuals (2012 and 2013 HICs): • 2012 – 122 • 2013 – 186 (610 not dedicated to CH individuals/families) • Turnover in PSH projects is low – from 10/1/2012 – 9/30/213, only 31 beds not dedicated to CH turned over. These numbers do not include VASH. • We have gotten new beds through reallocation (18 PSH beds for CH families and 11 PSH beds for CH singles).

  10. I: Increase progress towards ending chronic homelessness • Proposed goal: Prioritize 85% (max HUD points) of beds that turn over to CH individuals and families; add HomeAgain’s beds for CH families; consult VSH to determine whether it plans to allocate additional beds to people who are CH; ask VA if it is able to prioritize VASH beds for people who are CH. • Last year, we served 336 veterans (from HCIS) – 112 were chronic. Few left for permanent destinations.

  11. II: Increase housing stability • 331 people were served by CoC-funded PSH projects in last year. • 303 remained in PSH or exited to other permanent destinations, making our housing stability rate 92%. • We are above the HUD target of 80%. • Proposed goal: 1% increase each year

  12. III: Increase project participants’ income • Increases in earned income from employment are quite low – just 2%. • The majority of people are served by are PSH or outreach. • Increases in other income is also quite low – just 5%. • We need to ensure that when people achieve these increases, the data is accurately recorded in HCIS. We should improve, but given the nature of the projects, we should also be realistic. • Proposed goal for employment income: • 2014: 5% • 2015: 10% • Proposed goal for other income: • 2014: 8% • 2015: 10%

  13. IV: Increase the number of participants obtaining mainstream benefits • This goal refers to the % of people who have mainstream benefits (e.g., TANF, SNAP, SSI/SSDI). • HUD goal: 56% • Our stat: 72% • Proposed goal: 3% increase each year

  14. V: Use rapid rehousing as a method to reduce family homelessness • Number of homeless households with children per year that are assisted through CoC-funded rapid rehousingprojects: 83 • Number of homeless households with children per year that are assisted through ESG-funded rapid rehousingprojects: 49 • Number of households with children that are assisted through rapid re-housing projects that do not receive McKinney-Vento funding: 59 • Proposed goal: 5% increase each year

  15. Comments • If you have any comments, questions, or feedback on these performance goals, please let me know by Tuesday, January 28 – Margot Ackermann mackermann@homewardva.org (804)343-2045x11

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