Trauma Informed and Equitable Approaches to Data Collection for HMIS Webinar

Abt TA providers, in partnership with Cal ICH, have developed a webinar on Trauma-Informed and Equitable Approaches to Data Collection for grantees and other entities that collect information from people served by the homelessness system and enter data into Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS). This webinar introduces grantees of California state-funded homelessness programs to concepts related to trauma and its presentation, defines trauma-informed and equitable approaches, and applies this perspective to inform best practices in data collection for HMIS.

The webinar is available to view at the link below, and slides are attached.

Trauma-Informed and Equitable Data Collection in HMIS

Register Today: HOPWA 3R Webinar Series: Permanent Housing Placement (PHP) – Getting in the Door – March 13, 2024 – 1:00 PM EDT

HUD’s Office of HIV/AIDS Housing (OHH) and its partners are working to support Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) grantees and project sponsors to embrace and implement OHH’s new approach of Reset, Renew, Recharge (3R). 3R is an overarching strategy intended to enhance HOPWA program design and promote core values that will positively impact the lives and housing stability of people living with HIV/AIDS.

As part of the roll out of 3R, a series of webinars will provide grantees, project sponsors, and local communities with information on best practices and strategies to successfully introduce and operationalize 3R into their local HOPWA programs. Register today for the first webinar in the series, Permanent Housing Placement (PHP) – Getting in the Door.

Note: Prior to participating in this webinar series, it may be helpful to learn more about 3R by watching the recording of the 3R: A HOPWA Program Strategy Webinar held in 2022.

Objectives

  • Provide a blueprint for HOPWA program design and core values
  • Support communities to achieve program excellence and impact
  • Ensure programs are designed to meet the changing needs of the modern HIV epidemic
  • Promote equity for all people living with HIV/AIDS
  • Encourage consistent use of client-centered, low-barrier approaches

Audience

This series is intended for HOPWA grantees and project sponsors.

Schedule and Registration

Webinar TitleDate and TimeRegistration
Permanent Housing Placement (PHP)
– Getting in the Door
March 13, 2024
1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT

Register Now
Short-Term Rent, Mortgage,
and Utility Assistance (STRMU):
Ensuring the Right Fit
March 27, 2024
1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT
TBD
HOPWA Rent Standards:
Beyond Fair Market Rent (FMR)
April 10, 2024
2:30 – 4:00 PM EDT
TBD
Integrated Disbursement and
Information System (IDIS)
April 24, 2024
1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT
TBD

You must have a HUD Exchange account to register. Follow these instructions for registering.

Contact

HOPWA 3R Webinar Series Registrar | info@tacinc.org

Request 3R Technical Assistance

In addition to these webinars, HOPWA Technical Assistance (TA) is free and available to assist grantees and communities to implement 3R strategies. TA support is tailored to each community’s needs and goals. Examples of TA include:

  • Reviewing grant spending and identifying strategies to utilize HOPWA dollars most efficiently
  • Improving grantee and project sponsor capacity and expanding project sponsor networks
  • Educating grantees and project sponsors on client-centered, low-barrier approaches
  • Exploring new models of housing and services
  • Leveraging new resources to expand the number of people with HIV/AIDS served by a program

Submit your TA Request via the HUD Exchange. Under Topics, select Affordable Housing and Community Development > HOPWA. In the Subject Line enter, “HOPWA 3R Technical Assistance.”

2024 HUD Innovations in Ending Homelessness Roundtable Series: The State of Homelessness in 2024 – March 14, 2024 – 1:00 PM EDT

We are pleased to announce the upcoming HUD Innovations in Ending Homelessness Roundtable Series. This series is a continuation of the Rapid Rehousing Roundtable Discussion Series, which included panel discussions from system leaders, program staff, and people with lived experience of homelessness, to discuss challenges, lessons learned, and innovative new approaches to rapid rehousing. This new series will move beyond the specific focus of rapid rehousing and focus on innovative strategies and interventions that provide the most effective, equitable responses to homelessness at the individual and system levels. The first session, The State of Homelessness in 2024, is taking place on March 14, 2024. Save the date!

Objectives

  • Explore practices to respond to the current challenges from the increase in homelessness
  • Highlight communities implementing Housing First and decreasing barriers to housing
  • Using person-centered practices to examine the threat that criminalization poses to preventing and ending homelessness
  • Find innovative ways to create a system that ends homelessness with housing as the focus
  • Discover services and supports needed after rehousing, the importance of partnerships outside of the homeless services system, and how to engage in broader housing affordability conversations
  • Provide practical, specific steps communities can take to incorporate the values and philosophies essential to a person-centered homelessness response

Audience

This series is intended for front-line staff, program directors, system leaders, and funders.

Schedule and Joining Instructions

Participants do not need to register in advance. It is strongly recommended that you join each webinar 15 minutes prior to the start time (12:45 PM EDT).

Title Date and Time Joining Link
The State of Homelessness in 2024 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT Join the Webinar
Housing First: Still the Right Way
to End Homelessness
April 4, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Join the Webinar
Criminalization: An Emerging Threat
to Ending Homelessness
May 2, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Save the Date
Housing-Focused Interventions
Across the Continuum
June 6, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Save the Date
Staying Housed July 11, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Save the Date
The Person-Centered CoC August 8, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Save the Date

Contact

2024 HUD Innovations in Ending Homelessness Roundtable Series Registrar | trainings@hudexchange.info

Client-Centered and Trauma-Informed Data Collection Virtual Reality Resources Now Available

New resources to assist communities in training workers to take a client-centered and trauma-informed approach to data collection are now available. The FY 2024 HMIS Data and Technical Standards provided first-time guidance on how data collection should be approached: “Communities [should also] employ a person-centered approach to the review and use of the HMIS Data Manual with a clear foundational understanding of racial trauma and trauma-informed practices, cultural humility, and a person first, data-informed perspective.”

Immerse Yourself in this Virtual Reality Experience

The Client-Centered Data Collection Approach: Virtual Reality Series resources help support this directive.

Five Virtual Reality (VR) videos provide an immersion experience to increase empathy. The immersion, accessible through any smartphone, provides a first-person view into trauma-informed approaches to data collection.

Before engaging with the VR videos, we recommend that you start with the Facilitator’s Guide which provides helpful information to support the use of the VR videos as part of a group training curriculum. Additionally, there is a brief Human-Centered Approach to Intake video which provides helpful context and reviews why identifying questions, such as those about race and gender, might be stressful to answer and suggests strategies that minimize or eliminate potential frustration or disenfranchisement at the point of intake.

View the Resource Collection

2024 VAWA and Survivor Housing Community Conversations: Building System-Wide Partnerships – March 21, 2024 – 1:00 PM EDT

Last year, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) 2022 Foundations for Continuum of Care (CoC) and Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Webinar Series provided detailed, foundational knowledge about implementing VAWA and survivor-centered housing practices. VAWA and Survivor Housing Community Conversations will continue in 2024 through a series of discussions about successfully implementing VAWA and survivor-centered housing at the system, project, and human levels. Each conversation will feature a diverse panel of system leaders, project staff, and people with lived experiences from both the homelessness response and victim services worlds. The first session in this series, Building System-Wide Partnerships Between Housing and Victim Service Providers (VSPs), will take place on March 21, 2024, from 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT. Save the date!

Objectives

  • Learn about VAWA housing provisions that apply to CoC and ESG program recipients as outlined in the VAWA letter to CoC/ESG program recipients
  • Engage practitioners and experts about best practices in survivor-focused housing
  • Explore diverse range of VAWA and survivor housing implementations from communities across the country
  • Discover new ways to reach compliance with VAWA requirements and improve survivor-focused housing practices

Audience

This series is intended for CoC and ESG recipients and staff, including but not limited to CoC and ESG leadership, program managers, direct staff, and people with lived experience of homelessness. This series is also intended for victim services leadership, VSPs, and survivors.

Schedule and Joining Instructions

Participants do not need to register in advance. It is strongly recommended that participants join the webinar 15 minutes prior to the start time (12:45 PM EDT).

TitleDateJoin Link
Building System-Wide Partnership Between Housing and Victim Service Providers March 21, 2024
1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT
Join the Webinar
Building a Better Emergency Transfer PlanApril 18, 2024
1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT
Save the Date
HMIS and Data-Sharing for Victim Services Providers and SurvivorsMay 16, 2024
1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT
Save the Date
Coordinated Entry and Housing Problem-Solving for SurvivorsJune 27, 2024
1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT
Save the Date

Contact

VAWA and Survivor Housing Community Conversations Registrar | trainings@hudexchange.info

CoC Performance Profile Reports Now Available

New 2022 Continuum of Care (CoC) Performance Profile Reports are now available on HUD Exchange. These CoC Performance Profile Reports provide a snapshot of a CoC’s performance in addressing homelessness using performance indicators such as the length of time persons have been homeless, returns to homelessness over time, and exits to permanent housing.

The CoC Performance Profile Reports:

Each report includes funding information from HUD’s CoC Program, Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Program, and Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP).

Consistent with HUD’s Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) Data Strategy & Usability, HUD continues to look for ways to empower you to use data to tell the story of your CoC’s efforts to end homelessness. This report is an additional tool to help you evaluate your own work and communicate your efforts to others.

SOAR Webinar: Strategies and Considerations for Representing Older Adults with SSI/SSDI Claims – February 27, 2024 – 3:00 PM EST

According to a Addressing Homelessness Among Older Adults: Final Report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the number of older adults at risk of and currently experiencing homelessness has increased rapidly in recent years, and these individuals have unique needs compared to other populations experiencing homelessness. This report specifically finds that accessing a Supplemental Security Income (SSI)/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) Provider “can help older adults obtain SSI/SSDI benefits, providing a sustainable source of income and other critical assistance.”

On February 27, 2024, at 3:00 PM EST, HHS is hosting a webinar which will address the growing population of older adults with disabilities who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and the specific challenges they face. Participants will hear from innovative programs and learn about Social Security Administration rules and regulations specific to older adults. Presenters will also explain how older adults may face inequities at the intersection of age and other identities. The webinar will include a discussion with a SOAR beneficiary who will share their experience accessing Social Security benefits and other assistance.
Register for the Webinar
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