Objectives to End Chronic Homelessness and Move Families and Individuals to Permanent Housing

2007 Local Action StepsHow are you going to do it? List action steps to be completed within the next 12 months.

Numeric Achievement in 12 months

Numeric Achievement in 5 years

Numeric Achievement in 10 years

Lead Person (Who is responsible for accomplishing each action step.)

1.      Create new PH beds for chronically homeless persons.

1.      Project Beginnings – Construction of one triples and one six-units apartment building for dually diagnosed homeless individuals.

9 Beds

Oriana House –

Chris Savage

2.      Create 9 permanent supportive housing units for the homeless severely mentally ill population

9 Beds

3.      Create 14 permanent supportive housing units for chronically homeless individuals with disabilities

O.M.C.D.C. –

Jackie Jones

4.      Create 50 Shelter Plus Care Certificates serving chronically  homeless.

20 vouchers

30 vouchers

AMHA –

Pam Hawkins

5.      Create  permanent supportive housing units for chronically homeless individuals with disabilities

20 Beds

30 Beds

City of Akron –

Helen Tomic

2. Increase percentage of homeless persons staying in PH over 6 months to at least 71%.

1.      The most recent APR’s for renewing agencies, indicate that  83.80 % of clients residing in permanent housing stay longer than 6 months. The Steering Committee will work with providers to ensure that they maintain current levels.

84.0%

84.5%

85.5%

City of Akron –

Helen Tomic

3.     Increase percentage of homeless persons moving from TH to PH to at least 61.5%.

1.      The most recent APR’s for renewing agencies, indicate that  75.0 % of clients residing in transitional housing move to permanent housing. The Steering Committee will work with providers to ensure that they maintain current levels.

75.5 %

76.0%

76.5%

City of Akron – Helen Tomic

Increase percentage of homeless persons employed at exit to at least 18%.

The most recent APR’s for renewing agencies, indicate that  35.1 % of homeless persons are employed when they exit transitional shelter or permanent housing. The Steering Committee will work with providers to ensure that they maintain current levels.

35.5 %

40.0 %

40.5%

City of Akron –

Helen Tomic

1.      Increase referrals to the One-Stop Facility, a mainstream resource workforce development system, located at the Employment Resource Center within Goodwill Industries.

City of Akron –

Helen Tomic

2.      Continue to educate homeless providers about One-Stop Job Readiness & Placement Program

City of Akron –

Helen Tomic

4.      Link One Stop services and website to HMIS website.

Info Line, Inc.

5.      Continue to support funding for bus passes.  Homeless shelters provide bus passes to clients, allowing them to go to temporary employment agencies to seek employment

City of Akron –

Helen Tomic

6.      Continue to encourage temporary agencies to pick-up homeless clients at the shelters and transport them to the job site

7.      Develop relationship with Comm Staff –  a local temporary agency that provides job placement services to more difficult homeless clients

Community Health

Center –

Jackie Jones

8.      Goodwill Industries and Urban League will educate Community Committee about programs and services offered

Info Line, Inc. –

Sue Pierson

4.     Ensure that the CoC has a functional HMIS system.

1.      Continue to explore data integration from legacy systems to encourage participation of non-HUD funded Homeless Service Providers in the HMIS program.

a)      Work with the HMIS Advisory committee to identify additional entities serving the chronically homeless (home maintenance and repair, home loans, hospitals, prison re-entry programs, churches, etc.)

b)      Continue deliberations with identified entities (e.g. Minor Home Repair Network) to incorporate their programs into HMIS.

c)      Identify and work with local foundations to accumulate remaining funding necessary for Community VoiceMail project to begin rollout by 2008.

50%

75%

90%

Info Line, Inc. –

Fred Berry

2.      Recruit, orient and train new HMIS administrator.  Build relationships with CoC and service providers, gain understanding of ongoing issues and challenges.

Info Line, Inc. –

Sue Pierson

3.      Provide aggregate HMIS reports and/or successful case studies to HMIS participating agencies and funders to demonstrate use of data being collected within HMIS and how it can be used to evaluate and improve homeless services within Akron/Summit County.

Info Line, Inc. –

Fred Berry

4.      Continue to evaluate an eligibility module that will allow Service Providers to access additional community services during the client intake process and aid/educate the client on how to access those services.

a)      Integrate application forms into the online process so that service providers can easily access and populate fields with data that has been collected by HMIS (i.e. HEAP, PIP, WIC, PRC, Medicaid, Healthy Start/Healthy Families, SSI, Food Stamps, Passport, Public Housing, Child Care Subsidy, Ohio Works First, and Mobile Meals).

b)      Incorporate homeless Information and Referral resources into HMIS to support client eligibility determinations.

Info Line, Inc. –

Fred Berry

5.      Evaluate add-on reporting tool for effectiveness in improving collaboration between mainstream resource office staff and Homeless Service providers and reducing data entry.

Info Line, Inc. –

Fred Berry

6.      Evaluate HMIS software proficiency and consistency of data collection within each participating agency.  Address any collection inconsistencies and provide follow-up training as needed to agency staff. 

Info Line, Inc. –

Fred Berry

7.      Conduct a formal review of Policies and Procedures by the HMIS Advisory Committee to evaluate relevance and compliance.  Address orientation procedures for new staff and committee members. Apply new knowledge of needs to improve system process and participation.

Info Line, Inc. –

Fred Berry

8.      Conduct regular surveys of all active users, Advisory Committee members and local CoC participants for input on implementation and functionality.  Report results and identify necessary upgrades/improvements at HMIS Advisory Committee and CoC Community meetings.

Info Line, Inc. –

Fred Berry

9.      Utilize HMIS application and technical infrastructure to provide data and administrative support for Project Homeless Connect (April 2008).

Info Line, Inc. –

Fred Berry