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Every year, HUD submits an Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to the US Congress. The AHAR is a national-level report that provides information about homeless service providers, people and households experiencing homelessness, and various characteristics of that population. It informs strategic planning for federal, state, and local initiatives designed to prevent and end homelessness. The LSA report is produced from each CoC’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), and is compiled to create the AHAR report to Congress.

Check out the LSA Report FY 2023 here.

The Rapid Re-Housing Project Performance Report and the Goals and Outcomes reports for 3/1/23 – 2/29/24 have been posted! Click here to view the reports.

Click here to view the reports.

The Q1 2024 HMIS Data Report Cards have been published! Review your agency’s data here!

These report cards look at the main components of Data Quality: Data Completeness, Data Accuracy, and Data Timeliness for the reporting period 1/1/2024 – 3/31/2024.

The first tab of the Report Cards assesses the Data Completeness and Data Accuracy of the Universal Data Elements for each project in our system, and for all our system as a whole. This tab includes:

• The Percentage of enrollments that fall into the following data response categories: Valid Responses, Don’t know/Prefers not to Answer, Data not Collected, Missing Response, and Data Issues.
• The Average Data Completeness Score by project: This is a unique indicator of data completeness for each project.

The second tab of the Report Cards assesses the Data Timeliness of each project of our system. This tab shows the percentage of enrollments that fall into the following length of time categories: 0-3 days, 4-7 days, 16-30 days, and more than 31 days.

The Report Cards can now be filtered by Agency Name. To view the results for a particular agency, navigate to the dropdown labeled “Agency” and make a selection. The report can also be filtered by Project Name.

If you have any questions, please enter a ticket to the HMIS Help Desk.

Street Outreach serves a critical role in the homeless response system, often reaching people who aren’t accessing services in any other way. Incorporating a housing focus into street outreach programs improves outcomes for persons experiencing unsheltered homelessness by eliminating the need to first enter emergency shelter, and instead directly connecting them to safe, stable, permanent housing. Implementing housing-focused street outreach requires a shift from the historical practices of outreach that have focused primarily on addressing basic needs and connection to shelter through light touch services to a more trauma-informed and service intensive model that includes housing navigation.

This webinar series provides an overview of the basics of housing-focused street outreach, highlights communities that are effectively addressing unsheltered homelessness using housing-focused street outreach models and provides clear guidance for shifting the focus of outreach to housing both on the ground and at the system level.

Objectives

• Understand the fundamentals of housing-focused street outreach
• Increase knowledge of the benefits of shifting to housing-focused street outreach
• Understand how other communities are implementing housing-focused street outreach

Audience

This webinar series is intended for Continuum of Care (CoC), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), and Special Notice of Funding Opportunity to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness (SNOFO) grant recipients.

Schedule and Registration

Webinar Title	Date and Time	Registration
Building Blocks	April 9, 2024 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT	Materials Coming Soon
System Support for Housing-Focused Street Outreach	May 16, 2024 3:30 – 5:00 PM EDT	Register Now
Your Questions Answered	June 6, 2024 12:00 – 1:30 PM EDT	Save the Date

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

Contact

Housing-Focused Street Outreach Webinar Series Register | dusty_olsen@abtassoc.com

Coordinated Entry: Best Practices in Centering Equity and Ensuring Effectiveness

Thursday, April 18 @ 3:00 – 4:30 P.M. ET

Effective Coordinated Entry systems increase consistency, efficiency, and equity in communities’ work to end homelessness – but in practice, these systems can be hard to implement. In this webinar, learn from communities who are taking these challenges head on, harnessing the new visibility and clarity that Coordinated Entry has provided, and taking bold steps towards realizing the promise of a more equitable and functional Coordinated Entry System.

Register Here

Emergency Shelter: Reimagining a Housing Focused Place People Want to Use

Thursday, May 16 @ 3:00 – 4:30 P.M. ET

A safe, welcoming, low-barrier, and housing-focused shelter is a critical component of an effective homeless response system. Effective shelter practice requires listening to people with lived expertise and making cultural, philosophical, and operational shifts according to their feedback. This webinar will discuss modifying entry protocols, lowering barriers, and rethinking service provision to adopt housing-focused approaches.

Register Here

Registration is now open for the 12th cohort of the HMIS Data Analytics On-Demand Course. The goal of this immersive course is to provide a conceptual and practical framework for ad hoc reporting utilizing Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) data. This self-paced course is open to anyone in your community who is interested in analyzing, interpreting, and communicating HMIS data.

This is an introductory level course and might be a good fit for newer members of your HMIS team or someone looking to brush up on their data skills. Participants are not expected to have high-level technical or statistical skills; only basic knowledge of the following is needed:

• HMIS data standards
• How to pull an HMIS comma-separated value (CSV) file set, unless the participant has access to someone who can pull HMIS reports for them
• How to enter data into Excel and navigate within it

The data analytics course will equip participants with the skills to create a data brief highlighting trends to engage communities to drive insights into action. A combination of content, hands-on skill-building, and recommended resources are provided to help a basic data user build skills and knowledge necessary to be an advanced data professional while providing opportunities for ongoing professional development and learning. Participants will have eight weeks to complete six course modules at their own pace. Course participants will also receive a certificate upon completion of all six modules.

HUD and the National Homeless Services Data Consortium (NHSDC) are sponsoring a three-day conference titled “Moving Upstream: Data Alliances for Housing Stability” in Kansas City, MO, from April 10-12, 2024. Registration is closed for in-person participation, however registration to join select live webcast sessions is still available.

Register for the Conference

To view live webcast session descriptions, slides, and handouts, visit the NHSDC Spring 2024 conference page on the HUD Exchange. Transcripts and recordings will be made available after the conference. To view the full conference agenda, visit the NHSDC site.

Additional Information

Attendees who attend the following five sessions can earn a certificate of attendance from HUD.

• Getting it Right from the Start: HMIS Project Setup
• Bettering Data Quality to Improve Project and System Level Performance
• Protecting Data While Sharing Data to Prevent and End Homelessness
• Creating Transparency and Improving Partnerships with Good HMIS Governance
• Achieving a Quality and Stable HMIS Team

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

• Trauma-Informed and Equitable Data Collection for HMIS.pdf

The Homelessness Prevention Project Performance Report and the Goals and Outcomes Report for 1/1/2023 – 12/31/2023 have been published!

Click here to view the reports.

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 Title	Date and Time	Registration
Permanent Housing Placement (PHP) – Getting in the Door	March 13, 2024 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT	Webinar Materials
HOPWA Rent Standards: Beyond Fair Market Rent (FMR)	April 10, 2024 2:30 – 4:00 PM EDT	Register Now
Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS)	April 24, 2024 1:00 – 2:30 PM EDT	TBD
Short-Term Rent, Mortgage, and Utility Assistance (STRMU): Ensuring the Right Fit	May 8, 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.”