1. A collective impact initiative supported by:
(CC) In light of the needs assessment update you received last month, Lyle requested that we take you all a bit deeper this month and give some insight into the ways in which our collective impact initiatives are working actively with agencies across to county to address some of the issues facing our community. Today we’re going to discuss the strategic plan of the DCHLT, the development and implementation of Coordinated Entry over the past year, and then we’re going to engage you in an activity at your tables and give you a glimpse into the long-term planning we have ahead of us.
(CC) After the DCHLT presentation to council 7/25/17, the City of Denton city council voted to continue to fund my position, as well as the Coordinated Entry Initiative; additionally, the COD Human Services Committee recommended to council that $18k of HMIS Technical/Training Support funding be allocated to UWDC; the City of Lewisville has also allocated $4,000 for Coordinated Entry
(CC) Katherine Gonzales officially began as the Homelessness Initiatives Coordinator August 21st
A collective impact initiative supported by:

2. Denton County Homelessness Leadership Team (DCHLT)
Vision Every person in Denton County has a place to call home that is safe, affordable, accessible and supported by community resources.
Mission
The Denton County Homelessness Leadership Team fosters an effective and coordinated system of homelessness prevention and intervention, resulting in homelessness that is rare, brief and nonrecurring through:
Community awareness and connection
Data-driven, evidenced-based, fiscally responsible recommendations
Innovative solutions around affordable housing, access to primary and behavioral health care services, adequate incomes and coordinated services
Mobilizing, advocating and empowering public-private community-wide collaboration
(CC Read as a refresher)

3. DCHLT Strategic Plan
(CC) – Briefly explain format for strategic plan; approved by DCHLT March 2017

4. DCHLT Strategic Plan: Housing Workgroup
Goal: Increase Access to Housing for Residents of Denton County:
Identify Unmet Housing Needs
Expand Housing Capacity
Foster Housing Stability
Influence Public Policy
Seek Funding
(CC) Very briefly, the DCHLT Housing Workgroup’s strategic goal is __________, and the objectives set to achieve that goal are ____________________
(CC) In regards to that second objective, the workgroup is currently developing some landlord outreach initiatives which include improving interactions with the landlord and property manager community, and to utilize Risk Management funds to incentivize landlords to accept clients they may perceive as a risk given their criminal or credit histories.
(DS) A recent development that will assist in this is the approval of the Denton County Homelessness Leadership for UWDC to act as fiscal agent for the Denton County Homeless Coalition
Dani explain client assistance and risk management sides of the Barriers Fund
DHA committing $250k, hopefully annually, that could support this type of thing
(DS) Housing Policy Discussion – not happening now bc it’s difficult and takes a lot of mobilization, but needs to happen along with all the other work we’re doing or else we’re right back where we are

5. DCHLT Strategic Plan: Data Workgroup
Goal: Continuous Improvement of Homeless Data Management in Denton County:
Implement Coordinated Entry
Determine Housing Need
Develop/Maintain Homeless Data Dashboard
Seek Funding
(DS) Review Data Workgroup Goal:
Workgroup prioritizing a way to get the data we need
Coordinated Entry is the way to do it
DANI – YOU CAN BLEED OVER INTO NEXT SLIDE IF YOU WANT

6. DCHLT: Coordinated Entry
(CC) Coordinated Entry/Current Data
Common Assessment Tool – clients are assessed, scored, referred and prioritized; this data allows providers to prioritize the most vulnerable, and allows us to identify the most common housing needs via the ‘Housing Priority List’

7. DCHLT: Data Management
Completed Assessments in HMIS
Housing Needs
Diversion (0-3)
106
22.6%
Rapid Re-housing (4-7)
264
56.3%
Permanent Supportive (8+) 99
21.1%
2015 29
2016 27
2017
469
(CC) Coordinated Entry/Current Data
We’ve seen a significant increase in the completion of these common assessments in HMIS this year as a result of Coordinated Entry implementation
We’ve also been able to start analyzing trends within the data to determine the prevalence of different levels of housing needs
This data tells us a few things:
We need to better equip our case management staff in diversion techniques
The majority of our need are people in need of rapid re-housing

8. DCHLT: Data Management
Rapid Re-housing Need
HMIS YTD
HMIS Monthly Average
ESG Annual
ESG Monthly Average
Unmet Need Annual
Unmet Need Monthly
264 29
161 13
103 16
(CC) Coordinated Entry/Current Data
If we dial down even further into the data, we can start planning for the future
To date, the monthly average of households with RRH needs is approximately 29
Based on the numbers we submitted, as a community, in our most recent ESG application, we’ve committed to housing about 16 households a month using RRH dollars from the ESG grant
From there we’re able to identify a theoretical unmet need of roughly 13 households a month – that’s 16 households still in need of RRH a month in Denton County
I have more bad news: we already know it’s going to be a struggle housing the 13 households we know we will (potentially) have funding for
So I’m going to pass it over to Dani for an round table problem solving activity, and you’re going to get to help us plan strategically for the future.
Remember from your needs assessment presentation last month – Denton County is projected to grow 358% in the next 30 years, so the sooner we identify these crucial solutions, the better!

9. DCHLT: Future of Housing in Denton County
ROUND ROBIN ACTIVITY
What is the challenge?
Propose a solution.
Why will the solution fail?
Fix it!
Dani leads Round Robin activity

10. Questions. Denton County Homeless Coalition www. endhomelessnessdenton
Questions? Denton County Homeless Coalition Denton County Homelessness Leadership Team: Point-In-Time Report: