5.2: What's Working: Examples from Successful Prevention Programs

HPRP Innovations at the HPRP Innovations at the CommunityCommunity

& Regional Levels: & Regional Levels: Focus on FamiliesFocus on Families

Jason Satterfield

Stacey Murphy

NAEH National Conference on Ending Family NAEH National Conference on Ending Family Homelessness Homelessness

February 10-11, 2001February 10-11, 2001Oakland, CAOakland, CA

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OVERVIEW:OVERVIEW:

o The Homelessness Prevention & Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP), while limited in time, has provided opportunities to increase capacity to prevent homelessness

o Case Study: Alameda County links HPRP to their 10 Year Plan and focuses on rehousing people in shelters

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OVERVIEW (continued):OVERVIEW (continued):

o Case Study: Santa Clara County uses the self-sufficiency Matrix as a case management and evaluation tool

o Case Study: Homeless Policy & Advocacy Network provides a safe space to talk about innovation and experimentation

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HPRP: A Rapid IncubatorHPRP: A Rapid Incubator

o Through HPRP, Congress infused approximately $1.5 billion into local communities throughout the country

o The program was focused on prevention and rapid rehousing, which allowed many communities to temporarily expand and permanently improve their ability to provide those services

o Using HPRP as a launch pad, several San Francisco Bay Area communities attempted to innovate their prevention programs

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Alameda CountyAlameda County

o Background: Alameda County is a mix of urban, suburban and rural

areas, including: Oakland, Berkeley, Fremont, and more Diverse Homeless population that looks different in

different places: Homeless youth in Berkeley & Oakland Homeless Families in San Leandro, etc.

o Innovations: Linking HPRP to 10 Year Plan Emphasis on Rehousing People in Shelters

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o Overview:

Alameda has always prioritized prevention but there were very few resources to do it, particularly in more than a one-time/emergency assistance format.

Stakeholders were very concerned about serving people who may not be truly at risk. Research had not sufficiently demonstrated that people who received prevention services would have been homeless without it.

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o Overview (continued):

Decided to target homeless households with re-housing money – use the funds to try to end homelessness

Provide deeper subsidies, and potentially over longer periods of time

Work to link people to affordable housing Philosophy was that they may be serving fewer people but

those people are homeless, at the greatest need Understanding that not everyone would “graduate” or

“succeed” in a perfect trajectory, but that this funding presented a critical opportunity to try something new and reach people they’d been unable to serve before

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o Outcomes:

XXX households served, most of whom at XX% AMI in terms of income, X% homeless versus at-risk

XXX remain stably housed after exiting the program

Program continues to evolve – assessment tool will be modified on an ongoing basis

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Santa Clara CountySanta Clara County

o Background: Santa Clara County is another mix of urban, suburban

and rural areas, including San Jose. Diverse Homeless population that looks different in

different places: Homeless youth in Berkeley & Oakland Homeless Families in San Leandro, etc.

o Innovations: Using the Self-Sufficiency Matrix as Case Management

and Evaluation Tool

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o Overview:

Santa Clara County has always placed a lot of emphasis on HMIS – they have excellent bed coverage, data quality, and community utilization (even beyond HUD-funded beds)

They have always been interested in adapting the Self-Sufficiency Matrix as case management and evaluation tool to better monitor progress toward program outcomes.

They also wanted to use HMIS data they were colleting anyway to measure performance.

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o Overview: The self-Sufficiency Matrix scores a client’s progress

toward self –sufficiency in several areas such as: Housing Income Food Education Employment Family Relations Life Skills

The self-Sufficiency Matrix can reveal client-level, program-level, and system-level data

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o Overview: Using ServicePoint, Santa Clara County created the Self-

Sufficiency Matrix in HMIS: They track progress across all domains in the Matrix They also track system-wide outcomes, such as recidivism

The County requires that ALL programs providing case management persons who are homeless use the Self-Sufficiency Matrix

HPRP was the first program to fully adapt the Matrix from the outset, has begun to yield very interesting findings across its 3 grants and 5 subcontracting agencies

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o Overview: Using ServicePoint, Santa Clara County created the Self-

Sufficiency Matrix in HMIS: They track progress across all domains in the Matrix They also track system-wide outcomes, such as recidivism

The County requires that ALL programs providing case management persons who are homeless use the Self-Sufficiency Matrix

HPRP was the first program to fully adapt the Matrix from the outset, has begun to yield very interesting findings across its 3 grants and 5 subcontracting agencies

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o Outcomes: XXX households served, most of whom at XX% AMI in

terms of income, X% homeless versus at-risk

XXX remain stably housed after exiting the program

99.25% have not returned to the homeless system

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o Challenges: The County has needed to modify the definitions, do

extensive training county-wide to ensure consistency

HPRP has been critical testing ground for the Self-Sufficiency Matrix

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Homeless Policy & Advocacy Network (HPAN)Homeless Policy & Advocacy Network (HPAN)

o Objective: HPAN seeks to ensure that, amidst significant policy

shifts, regional systems of care are not disrupted or destabilized

It seeks to support providers and other stakeholders to use new resources as efficiently as possible, in ways that further local goals of ending homelessness

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o Innovation: Regional network supported by the San Francisco

Foundation to ensure that Bay Area communities were prepared for significant policy shifts (HEARTH, stimulus funding, etc.)

Because HEARTH regulations have not yet been released, HPAN has focused on HPRP

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o Overview: As with most communities, HPRP has been highly

significant in the Greater Bay Area

$75m in funding for entitlement communities, $XXm in additional State funds – enormous infusion of resources for something most communities wanted to do for a long time

Rules were released incrementally after program launch

The clock has always been ticking – spend-down was a big issue, from the start

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o Overview:

HPAN is a regional network (it’s membership includes communities Northern (including rural) Bay Area localities, south to Monterey County, and east to the Central Valley

12+ counties participate

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QUESTIONS?QUESTIONS?

Jason Satterfield415-788-7961 ext. 311 [email protected]