CHG Grantee Forum: “We know more. Let’s use it and do more.” …or “The Data Part” …or “The Art of Napping with Your Eyes Open” October 29, 2014

Accomplishments in Calendar Year 2013 With CHG & EFH (not HEN): -26,827 households -39,587 people in households 44% in families with children 59% of those are single parents 54% adults only 2% children only 36% Disabled 4% Veterans 1% Unaccompanied Youth 6% Young Adults (18-24) With all funding: -50,916 households -72,237 people in households 40% in families with children 58% of those are single parents 58% adults only 2% children only 35% Disabled 7% Veterans 1% Unaccompanied Youth 6% Young Adults (18-24)

Households Entered by Program Type

Average Rate of Exit to Stable Housing

Average Days of Service at Exit

Average Cost per Day

Average Cost per HH Exit

Longer stays = better outcomes? “Our numbers show that the longer a family or individual stays in the shelter, the higher rates of exiting to stable housing they have,” [redacted] said.

Longer stays = better outcomes? Or…

Are Households Returning to Homelessness after Exiting to Permanent Housing? Looking back to your exits from 2011 and 2012…

Are Households Entering with Past PH Exits from the Homeless System? Checking out the history of your current entries…

What if… What if all the EFH households were transitionally housed instead of rapidly re-housed? HH ServedDays of ServiceCost per DayCost per HHTotal Cost $18.27$1,900$336,314 Same $42.08$4,376$774,608 It could have cost the state $438,294 more to serve the same families. And less people would have permanent housing at the end of their subsidy.

What if… What if you had entirely eliminated transitional housing by the start of 2013? HH ServedDays of ServiceCost per DayCost per HHTotal Cost 1,099211$42.08$8,879$9,757,889 Same170$18.27$3,106$3,413,384 Could we have saved nearly $6 million? Or spent the same but served more families and helped them get better outcomes?

What if… What if we had spent our prevention dollars in January 2014 on housing unsheltered homeless people ? What would the PIT count have been instead? JAN 2014 Prevention Persons Entered in HMIS JAN 2014 PIT Unsheltered Persons Counted Reality18116,289 What if…04,478 to 5,389

What else can you do? What else can we do? Transitional housing conversions? Reduced lengths of stay and returns? Less use of prevention; more use of rapid rehousing? Increased rates of stable housing? What if we “progressively engaged” you (much as we are asking you to do with your clients)? Do you know what help you need from the state to “succeed?” Do you have a sense of what “succeed” means to you? Do you think Commerce can stand back and let you go?

For further information or HMIS help Talia Scott – (p.s. - her first name is not ‘Scott’) – Jennifer Garrett – Maylee Stevenson – Julie Montgomery – Mary Schwartz – Everyone’s is

And now… Here’s Scott Talia to introduce our next guest

RJ Reynolds Company: Slow to change Founded in 1875 Research emerged in 1950s and 60s on dangers of smoking - national Made $124 million last year In 1998 (sixteen years ago! Same time HMIS started getting mentioned at federal level!) settled with 46 states; includes no less than $206 billion in ongoing medical costs for caring for smokers, and funding for action groups (“The Truth”) to curtail smoking, especially among youth 500,000 people die each year from smoking-related deaths 18% of adult Americans smoke (similar to RJ Reynolds’ work force) In October 2014: RJ Reynolds banned smoking in their offices in North Carolina.