HOST Data Walk 2014

Neighborhood Revitalization Conference PresentationElsa Falkenburger

What is HOST?

• Housing Opportunities and Services Together (HOST) Demonstration• Chicago, IL, Altgeld Gardens• Portland, OR, New Columbia and Tamarack

Gardens• Washington, DC, Benning Terrace

• HOST Network• Pittsburgh, PA; Baltimore, MD; New York, NY• Interest from various CA locations and Puerto

Rico

HOST Data Collection

• Baseline survey for adults and youth (ages 12-17)

• Program Data

• Program Observations

• Focus groups with parents and youth

• Interviews with staff

• Cost information

Why a Data Walk?

• Share data collected from the community back with the community and empower them to take informed action of their own

• Help explain nuances in program data and provide context for survey data results

• Inform HOST services and programming

How we did it - logistics

• Outreach

• Food! And other incentives

• Child care, computer lab

• Large space, small groups

• Discussion groups – residents/service providers

Considerations

• What are we trying to achieve with our data walk?

• Discuss the risks vs. benefits of sharing certain data points, with certain audiences in the room, etc…

• Use language and user friendly charts

• Balance strengths and weaknesses

• Include guiding questions

Data Walk Directions

• We have printed posters with the data we want to share with you and hung them up in stations around the room.

• We will talk through the first poster station together.

• We will then break into small groups to view the rest of the poster stations.

• Each group will have 5 minutes at each poster station.

• Groups will move to the next poster station until I indicate it is time to move to the next station

• While at each station, participants should look at the posters and think about them with their group. Think of yourself as a member of the community or one of the service providers working with the families.

Discussion Questions

While you walk around and look at the posters, ask yourself the following questions…

1.What surprises you about the information? Anything?

2.What is the good news and the bad news?

Station 12012 Survey Data

Sense of Community

are willing to help

share the same values

are close-knit

can be trusted

generally get along with each other

54%

35%

45%

24%

46%

73%

54%

63%

52%

72%

42%

73%

37%

22%

35%

AltgeldPortlandDC

Residents feel that people in the neighborhood…

Sense of Community

• One in four residents at Altgeld (24%) and in DC (22%) feel their neighbors can be trusted compared to one out of every two residents in Portland (52%).

• Fewer Altgeld residents (35%) feel the community shares the same values compared to 54% in Portland and 73% in DC.

• More than half of residents at Altgeld (54%) and in Portland (73%) report neighbors are willing to help compared to 42% in DC.

Food & Hunger

cut size of meals in past

12 months

worried whether food would run out

before they got money to buy

more

food bought didn't last and

they didn't have money to get any more

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

21%

50% 49%

35%

64%60%

30%

58% 60%

Altgeld Portland DC

When asked about food in their homes, residents reported..

Food & Hunger

• Fewer residents at Altgeld (21%) have cut the size of their meals in the past 12 months than in Portland (35%) and in DC (30%).

• Half of Altgeld residents (50%) worried about food running out before they got money to buy more – less than both Portland at 64% and DC at 58%.

• 60% of both Portland and DC residents reported that sometimes food purchased didn’t last and they didn’t have money to get more. Both sites are higher than Altgeld which reported 49%.

What we learned about our data

• Food insecurity is thought to be much higher than reported, and complex

• Doesn’t capture much about quality/nuances in communication and its effect on participation

• Safety is a big concern that plays into youth engagement levels

Station 2Adult Participation and Meetings with Program Staff

Discussion Question(s):

1. Why did families participate more in some months than

others?

Adult Participation in HOST Services

Nov11

Jan1

2

Mar

12

May

12Ju

l12

Sep1

2

Nov12

Jan1

3

Mar

13

May

13Ju

l13

Sep1

3

Nov13

Jan1

4

Mar

140%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

11%

54%

19%

33%

57%

% of adults to participate in HOST services

Average Number of Meetings with Case Manager

Nov-1

1

Jan-

12

Mar

-12

May

-12

Jul-1

2

Sep-

12

Nov-1

2

Jan-

13

Mar

-13

May

-13

Jul-1

3

Sep-

13

Nov-1

3

Jan-

14

Mar

-14

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

2.27

3.26

2.95

1.875

2.2606382979

Heads of Households (HOHs)

Station 3Youth Participation

Discussion Question(s):

1. Why did youth participate more in some months than others?

2. Which youth participated in HOST the most?

HOST Youth Participation in Services

Apr-13May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13Dec-13 Jan-14 Feb-14Mar-140

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

200

150

175

58

157

37

152

52

Number of children

Youth Participation by Age

Apr-13May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13Dec-13 Jan-14 Feb-14Mar-140

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

18

4

26

3

89

32

81

69

3129

17

41

12

0-5 year-olds 6-13 year-olds 14-18 year-olds

Station 4Lease Violations

Discussion Question(s):

1. Did HOST help families address

housing problems?

70% of HOST Households have had at least one lease violation in the last two years.

HOST Participation and Lease Violations

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

12

54 56

144

80

150

Count of household heads with lease violations by monthCount of engaged household heads by month