HPRP Impacts: Community Case Studies

Jamie TaylorCloudburst Consulting Group

Community Case Studies: HPRP Systems Change

Snowball sampling, start with Google:“HPRP Systems Change”

Charlotte, NC Montgomery

County, OH State of Rhode

Island Sacramento

County, CA Santa Clara, CA

Worcester

County, MA Yolo County, CA

From fragmentation to coordination 211 central intake point in Sacramento

Pre-screening for HPRP eligibility

Rhode Island established new statewide Prevention Assistance Program Not centralized intake but standardized approach Financial counseling required and provided to all

Single HPRP coordinator across all sites Centralized oversight, staff trainings, monitoring

New collaborative partnerships Santa Clara blended funding to create county-

wide prevention system (3 awards=$6 million) Standardized prevention service protocols,

e.g., self-sufficiency matrix assessment tool Charlotte: Five Social Workers Teams oversee 50

volunteers on each team DSS social workers - mainstream provider

partnerships…….sustainability post-HPRP Yolo County leveraged existing housing and

prevention services to create new partnerships with Housing Resource Centers Coordinated triage and assessment tools using HMIS

Regionalized Systems of Care Worcester’s coordination of entire county’s

prevention and rapid re-housing services – see entire map of housing, service and prevention services in area as one system.

State of Rhode Island’s blended funding sources, centralized planning, allocation and monitoring of prevention service system increase efficiencies/effective outreach network

Montgomery County’s regionalized tracking system allows for unprecedented analysis of prevention service system

Building and Maintaining Political Will Yolo County HRC staff trained across

community for prevention service referrals: Police, Schools, Government agencies, Housing Authorities, CoC providers, Housing courts, DOC

With new system partnerships, on multiple levels, growing awareness - “We’re all in this together”

System-wide performance measures for both prevention and re-housing outcomes help build political will, homeless but for prevention $$.

Leadership / Learning StructuresSeeing SystemsCollaborating Across Agency Boundaries

Service Coordination and Standardization

Collaborating Across Funding Streams

Inclusive Governance Structure -- Centralized Program Oversight

Using Problems to Create Change

Leadership Commitment to Systems Change

Developing New Practices / Thinking

Entire system alignment Housing Stabilization and Housing First

Using Data to Continually Adapt Innovative Use of Local Impact Data

Where do we go from here? HPRP funds $1.5 billion over three years

New ESG funding $200 million / year 60% ESG to emergency shelter support

40% ESG to prevention assistance

McKinney Vento amended by HEARTH System Performance Matters

Reduction in number of unsheltered households

Reduction in number of people who become homeless

 Number of newly homeless at least 10 percent lower than the year before.

Key Challenges?

Values/Ideas

Relationships

Resources