Presented at: NHSDC, Kansas City, MO Presented on: 04/11/2024 This presentation delivered at the NHSDC conference in Kansas City detailed a comprehensive, community-led initiative to enhance the collection and use of data on unsheltered homelessness. The Kansas City team highlighted the limitations of traditional Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS), particularly their ineffectiveness in field outreach Read more about New Approaches to Capturing Unsheltered Homelessness Data: One Community’s Journey[…]

Presented at: NHSDC Presented on: 04/26/2021 Kansas City, MS is a melting pot that consists of people of all forms of race, culture, and socioeconomic background. Unfortunately, we live in a society where not all people are treated equitably. In this session, we will provide an overview of the tools and resources that we are Read more about Utilizing HMIS and non-HMIS Data to Support Racial Equity[…]

Presented at: NHSDC, Nashville, TN Presented on: 04/17/2019 The planning process for conducting an accurate point in time homeless count in larger regions such as Texas Balance of State, King County, and Dallas can be a daunting undertaking. Like any large project, it is often best to break this work down into manageable tasks and Read more about PIT Count Planning and Analysis​ Aided by Open Data and Open Source Tools​[…]

Presented at: NHSDC, Nashville, TN Presented on: 04/16/2019 In response to one of HUD’s questions from the 2019 CoC funding application, our team analyzed how equitably our CoC is serving different racial/ethnic groups in terms of receiving homelessness services, prioritizing those services, and housing success rate. We determined that an unbiased homeless system would serve Read more about Racial Disparities Analysis Using Data from Homeless Response Systems​[…]

Presented at: NHSDC,, Nashville, TN Presented on: 04/15/2019 Communities face many common challenges when attempting to effectively respond to the range of housing needs of individuals and families. To overcome these challenges, multiple technical objects, or services, can be integrated into a singular framework. Each service within the framework fulfills a specific functional requirement and Read more about Rethinking the Homelessness Response Framework[…]

Presented at: NHSDC Conference, Pittsburgh PA Presented on: 04/18/2018 HUD has required that regions have a Coordinated Entry System in place by January 23, 2018. We’ve seen best practices from many regions who have a single, open, HMIS system and have strong participation rates. What about regions who do not? Some regions have providers that Read more about When CE Best Practices Don’t Work: Setting up CE in Regions with Closed and Fragmented Data Systems[…]

Presented at: NHSDC Conference, Pittsburgh PA Presented on: 04/17/2018 Collecting PIT data in communities impacted by natural disasters is essential to assure regions are not penalized. Data also helps to further inform recommendations on long-term disaster recovery to the State Agencies so they may better know how to utilize Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Read more about Measuring the Impact of Natural Disasters on the Homeless System[…]

Presented at: NHSDC Presented on: 10/11/2017 The communities of Houston and Corpus Christi quickly designed, developed, and implemented a technical framework to support the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.  This presentation included an overview on the challenges that were faced, followed by a discussion of how a services-oriented architecture (SOA) and integration with HMIS was leveraged to maximize the Read more about Rapid Deployment of a Homeless Response Framework[…]

Presented at: NHSDC Conference, Salt Lake City, UT Presented on: 04/24/2017 Coordinating accurate PIT count is a challenge even for small regions. Both Connecticut and San Antonio used paper-based counts but moved to mobile tech and dashboards. San Antonio conducted a blitz count with full canvassing while Connecticut used geographic-sampling. We will show how geospatial Read more about Tools and Techniques for Conducting Reliable Point in Time Counts in Large Areas[…]

Presented at: NHSDC Conference, Salt Lake City, UT Presented on: 04/26/2017 During this session, we will provide an overview of how project-level performance measures, using count results culled from APRs and PIT reports, can serve as an effective alternative to large data warehouses that require client consent in order to co-mingle data. We will walk Read more about We Have the Results from our System Performance Measures, Now What?[…]