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Homelessness Prevention in Seattle: Draft Plan

Introduction

● Current situation of homelessness in Seattle/King County

● Establishment of King County Regional Homelessness Authority

Ecosystem Mapping

● Visualization of stakeholders and partners in the homelessness ecosystem

Problems

● Identified Problems

● Description of the two main problems: the lack of exit data and real-time data of individuals

experiencing homelessness

Solution

● Explanation of the solution

○ Solution 1: Coined with the Peer Navigation System that is planned to be implemented,

the Authority should collect more accurate exit data and closely examine how, why, and

when people fall back into homelessness

○ Solution 2: The Authority should collect real-time data of every person experiencing

homelessness and qualitative data of individual needs

● Visualizations

○ Visualization of the current flow of tasks

○ Visualization of the proposed solution

Implementation

● Solution 1 - Data on status in between homeless shelter visits

○ KCRHA would need to work with homeless shelters to collect information when people

are checking into homeless shelters

■ This information would include, if applicable:

● The last time they were at a shelter

● What housing status they went into when they left the shelter

● What housing status they primarily were in between shelter visits

■ This information would need to be collected in a privacy-first model, with only the

necessary information collected

● Only looking at categories of homelessness/being unsheltered instead of

specifics

○ Ex. For housing status between shelter visits, only categorical

data like ‘permanent housing’ or ‘unsheltered on the street’ not

locations of where they were

● Solution 2 - By name list: Real-time data on the homeless population

○ This would give a big picture as well as detailed information on the homeless population

that includes both quantitative and qualitative data

○ KCRHA would work with case managers and homeless shelters to get a list of names

and profiles of the current homeless population

Consider an Executive Summary, or at the very least a little text box which references a brief overview of the problem, names the targeted agency, a references your proposed solution. Helps contextualize the rest of the paper for your reader.

How did you identify these? Will this reference the shortcomings of the ecosystem and organization? Seems you may want a section/sub-heading on that first.

Is this your tech solution?

How? They should do this, but how so? Saying it this way doesn't clarify what the solution is.

How is the Implementation section different than the Steps section? Unclear why it's divided this way. Are the steps maybe an Addressing the Challenges section? If so, would reframe to make more clear and then list that section before an implementation section. Not sure I exactly have that right, but tried to follow your logic.

Off to a good start! Need a more clear section/area for assessing the ecosystem and target agency. Also need clearer delineation and clarity between the Implementation and Steps sections. Please see my notes in the document by clicking on your submission.

■ The profiles would include qualitative data of what type of individual needs they

have

● Ex. substance abuse help, housing that allows them to have their pets

Steps

● Organizational

○ Solution 1

■ Expand the scope of the Peer Navigation System to oversee post-shelter

activities

■ Train the Peer Navigators and their advisors to collect data

■ Designate a data analyst(s) to specifically focus on post-shelter data

■ Integrate collected data into the existing data analytics system to reflect the

insights into future planning

○ Solution 2

■ When transferring data from the Homelessness Management Information System

(HMIS), there would be a window to improve the data infrastructure under the

governance of the Authority

■ During the transition, the data system must be updated to include ‘by name list’

■ Train shelters, providers, and case managers to collect real-time data cohesively

and report to the Authority daily

■ Ensure that by name list is protected at the highest security level to protect their

privacy

■ Implement policies that no law enforcement can access the information in by

name list

● Technical

○ Solution 1

■ Since data is currently being collected and analyzed in a similar way to this

solution right now, there isn’t any need to create any additional technology

infrastructure

○ Solution 2

■ Requires a new shared secure database that case managers, shelter workers,

and KCRHA can access and add to

Looking Ahead

● With the information gathered about housing status between shelter visits, KCRHA can better see

what keeps people in a cycle of homelessness and also see if there are interventions or types of

housing after shelters that are more effective than others

● With the real-time data of those currently experiencing homelessness, KCRHA can better prepare

resources and understand the kind of support the current community needs

References

● Literature and articles we reviewed

● 5 interviews we conducted with stakeholders

Maybe this is an Expected Outcomes section?