1. How Does My Data Measure Up: Creating Performance Measures that Mean Something
Wendy Smith
HMIS System and Implementation Administrator
Portland Housing Bureau- City of Portland
Megan Bolton
Senior Research Analyst
Oregon Housing and Community Services

2. Performance Measures
What are performance measures and why are they important?
What are the current performance measures used by HUD, the state, and others?
Discuss what is possible with performance measures
What is most useful to measure?
What other performance measures could be brought to the state level? Do they differ at all from HUD’s?

3. Performance Measures
Performance measurement is generally defined as regular measurement of outcomes and results, which generates reliable data on the effectiveness and efficiency of programs

4. What is most useful to measure?
HUD has their ideas:
Length of Time Persons Remain Homeless
The Extent to Which Persons who Exit Homelessness Return to Homelessness
Number of Homeless Persons
Employment and Income Growth for Homeless Persons in CoC Program-funded Projects
Number of Persons who Become Homeless for the First Time
Successful Placement from Street Outreach and Successful Placement in Retention of Permanent Housing
Homelessness Prevention and Housing Placement

5. What is most useful to measure?
What are your ideas?
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6. HUD’s Performance Measures

7. Statewide example

8. A Home For Everyone (AHFE)
Local samples
Portland/Gresham/Multnomah County Continuum of Care (OR-501)
A Home For Everyone (AHFE)

9. Local samples Who helped drive the decisions
What measures did we create or adopt
What do we do with them
How they drive the conversation

10. Local samples

11. How about you? Who has created any local performance measure
Which measures might make sense locally? For the State?
What do you see as the next steps

12. Questions????
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