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The Project Performance Overview document has been updated with the thresholds below. These thresholds were discussed during the September 2022 Data & Performance Management Meeting. Review the meeting materials for details.

• Goal 6 – Help Adults Maintain or Increase Their Income while Enrolled in the Project
  • Updated threshold for Homelessness Prevention projects is >=50%
• Goal 7 – Help Adults Maintain or Increase Their Income as of Project Exit
  • Updated threshold for Homelessness Prevention projects is >=45%

Bitfocus has  announce that the Data Analysis Tool will be upgraded on September 20, 2022. To review the changes, please refer to Data Analysis Release Notes. 

The update should be complete by 9 a.m. Pacific Time on 9/20/2022. Please note, the Data Analysis Tool will not be available from 7-9 a.m. PT while the update is taking place.

The Office of Care Coordination, on behalf of the Orange County Continuum of Care (CoC), has attached a draft of the updated CES Policies and Procedures for public feedback. Please submit any written feedback by September 7, 2022 to coordinatedentry@ochca.com.

In addition, the Office of Care Coordination will be hosting a public listening session on September 7, 2022. The public listening session will be a chance to learn about the recommended changes to the Coordinated Entry System (CES) Policy and provide feedback. 

Please find meeting details below:

Date:  Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Time:  9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Join the listening session from your computer, tablet, or smartphone: https://ocgov.webex.com/ocgov/j.php?MTID=m0c2b75f860e54d89f1ce9be2837a7ecb Meeting ID: 2468 676 1374
Password: 92701

CES POLICY DRAFT_220823.pdf

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the release of the Continuum of Care (CoC) Supplemental to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness (CoC Special NOFO) on June 22, 2022. As part of the CoC Special NOFO application process, CoCs are tasked with developing a CoC plan for serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness with severe service needs (CoC Plan).

Listening Sessions

The Orange County CoC invites your participation and feedback at an upcoming listening session. Listening sessions will provide an overview of the CoC Plan requirements as outlined in the CoC Special NOFO application and allow space for recommendations for specific components of the plan to be developed. If needed, additional listening sessions may be calendared.

Listening Session #2 – Current Strategy to Identify, Shelter and House Individuals and Families Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness
Date: Thursday, September 1, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m.
Meeting Link: https://ocgov.webex.com/ocgov/j.php?MTID=m3336eb89f8538f4cbaef87993d1bcc59 

Listening Session #3 – Updating Strategy to Identify, Shelter and House Households Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness and Prioritizing Households Experiencing or with Histories of Unsheltered Homelessness
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. –2:00 p.m.
Meeting Link: https://ocgov.webex.com/ocgov/j.php?MTID=m0ca0b71c30467c20f34fe04a4533b615 

Listening Session #4 – Involving individuals with Lived Experience of Homelessness and Supporting Underserved Communities and Equitable Development
Date: September 13, 2022
Time: 12:30 p.m. –1:30 p.m. 
Meeting Link: https://ocgov.webex.com/ocgov/j.php?MTID=m534b4539c34c0ec182ac32db0b171b73

Newly Scheduled!
Listening Session #5 – Recommendations Towards Previous Topics
Date: Friday, September 16, 2022
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Meeting Link: https://ocgov.webex.com/ocgov/j.php?MTID=me088ed06d580623f15ce355c20103249

Who should attend?

CoC general membership and key stakeholders, including affordable housing developers, service providers, the business community, victim service providers, healthcare providers, and others interested in developing a plan to address people experiencing homelessness with severe service needs.

Can’t make a session?

If you are interested in providing feedback and recommendations to the CoC Plan and are unable to make a listening session, you may review the questions included in the session presentations linked on the CoC Special NOFO Webpage and email responses to Patrick Wigmore at Patrick@homebaseccc.org and include the Office of Care Coordination at CareCoordination@ochca.com. Please contact the Office of Care Coordination at CareCoordination@ochca.com with the subject line “CoC Plan Listening Sessions” if you have any questions or difficulty accessing the listening sessions. 

The Office of Care Coordination is sharing the following information on behalf of United to End Homelessness:

United to End Homelessness is hosting a two-part Community Chat session to discuss senior homelessness. Community Chats are short learning opportunities to discuss trending topics related to homelessness in Orange County with local experts.

In the first session of this series, national expert on senior homelessness, Dr. Dennis Culhane, PhD, from the University of Pennsylvania, will be the guest speaker. Registration will close an hour before the event and attendees are sent the Zoom link in advance. If you miss the registration deadline, you can watch via the Facebook page. 

Aging and Homelessness: A Growing Crisis in America | Community Chat
Date: Thursday, August 25, 2022
Time: 12:00 p.m. –12:30 p.m.
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aging-and-homelessness-a-growing-crisis-in-america-community-chat-tickets-397196203537?aff=ebdsoporgprofile 

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the release of the Continuum of Care (CoC) Supplemental to Address Unsheltered and Rural Homelessness (CoC Special NOFO) on June 22, 2022. As part of the CoC Special NOFO application process, CoCs are tasked with developing a CoC plan for serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness with severe service needs (CoC Plan).

The Orange County CoC invites your participation and feedback at an upcoming listening session. Listening sessions will provide an overview of the CoC Plan requirements as outlined in the CoC Special NOFO application and allow space for recommendations for specific components of the plan to be developed. If needed, additional listening sessions may be calendared.

Listening Session #1 – Leveraging Housing and Healthcare Resources
Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. –2:00 p.m.
Meeting Link: https://ocgov.webex.com/ocgov/j.php?MTID=m8d388aa8bd5cd255578d1c57f150ab4d

Listening Session #2 – Current Strategy to Identify, Shelter and House Individuals and Families Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness
Date: Thursday, September 1, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m.
Meeting Link: https://ocgov.webex.com/ocgov/j.php?MTID=m3336eb89f8538f4cbaef87993d1bcc59 

Listening Session #3 – Updating Strategy to Identify, Shelter and House Households Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness and Prioritizing Households Experiencing or with Histories of Unsheltered Homelessness
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. –2:00 p.m.
Meeting Link: https://ocgov.webex.com/ocgov/j.php?MTID=m0ca0b71c30467c20f34fe04a4533b615 

Listening Session #4 – Involving individuals with Lived Experience of Homelessness and Supporting Underserved Communities and Equitable Development
Date: September 13, 2022
Time: 12:30 p.m. –1:30 p.m. 
Meeting Link: https://ocgov.webex.com/ocgov/j.php?MTID=m534b4539c34c0ec182ac32db0b171b73

Who should attend?
CoC general membership and key stakeholders, including affordable housing developers, service providers, the business community, victim service providers, healthcare providers, and others interested in developing a plan to address people experiencing homelessness with severe service needs.  Please contact the Office of Care Coordination at CareCoordination@ochca.com with the subject line “CoC Plan Listening Sessions” if you have any questions or difficulty accessing the listening sessions. 

The Q2 2022 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.

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/Refused, 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 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.

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

The Street Outreach Project Performance Report and the Goals and Outcomes Report have been posted!

Click here to view the reports.

Due to a system upgrade, Looker will be unavailable on August 22 from 7:00AM – 9:00AM. These upgrades will improve data readability, accuracy and performance. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this brief outage.

The Office of Care Coordination in partnership with the Orange County Continuum of Care (CoC) is facilitating the Homeless Provider Forum on a quarterly basis. The next in-person Homeless Provider Forum meeting is being held on Thursday, August 18, 2022.

• Date: Thursday, August 18, 2022
• Time: 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
• Location: St. Mark Presbyterian Church
• Address: 2200 San Joaquin Hills Road, Newport Beach, CA 92660

Note: Agenda will be posted and shared via email notification at least 72 hours in advance of the meeting date.

Homeless Provider Forum Overview

The Homeless Provider Forum is co-chaired by two members of the CoC Board. The Homeless Provider Forum meetings serve as spaces to share updates on efforts of the Orange County CoC, CoC Board and Office of Care Coordination; hold trainings that support organizations in being knowledgeable on evidence-based practices as well as trainings required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); and allow service providers the opportunity to share information and services their organizations offer for people experiencing homelessness and network. If you have any questions, please contact CareCoordination@ochca.com