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Simplified and visualized, key indicators are compiled quarterly for Polk County continuum in Iowa. These two complementary and linked dashboards are meant for sharing with the broader community, to help people gain insight into the challenges and successes of Iowa’s homeless prevention and response systems.
Simplified and visualized, key indicators are compiled quarterly for the Balance of State continuum in Iowa. These two complementary and linked dashboards are meant for sharing with the broader community, to help people gain insight into the challenges and successes of Iowa’s homeless prevention and response systems.
Iowa’s coordinated entry regions are intended to provide those experiencing homelessness or at risk of experiencing homelessness with local options, and to put the power of choice in the hands of those most impacted by homelessness. This effort and this accompanying reporting tool help to make visible the reality of homelessness in Iowa’s disparate locations and the impacts of the hard work of the prevention and homelessness response team.
For the last several years, Polk County has been engaged in the Youth Homeless Demonstration Program, where novel approaches to addressing youth homelessness have been piloted and community cooperation is the focus. This includes leadership from youth who have been or are themselves experiencing homelessness. This dashboard includes data elements gathered as a part of the Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) data standards, a cooperative program between HUD and DHS. Those data are reported on this dashboard for the duration of the program, including some unique filters, to be updated periodically.
The experience of homelessness is inequitable, particularly by race. It is a fundamentally different experience based many demographic variables. Some of that is systemic, tied to poverty and systems beyond our ability to impact, but some of it is tied to the system of homelessness prevention and response. In a continuing effort to address the racial inequity that can be addresses within this system, this dashboard serves as a data tool to drive those discussions and move them to action.
Starting in the first quarter of 2022, the Iowa BoS CoC has implemented a data quality plan to ensure that CoC-funded projects are maintaining good data quality and meeting performance expectations. This dashboard shows how individual projects compare to each other for each metric of interest, as well as how CoC-funded projects are performing as a collective.
The annual point in time is an important tool for measuring hard to count populations. It is the one time annually that non-HMIS participating agencies report their numbers and domestic violence's providers, who are prohibited from participation in HMIS, are reported in a single location. Critically, it is also the time when a street count is preformed. That data is all sent to HUD for complication and is key in competitions.
This dashboard reports that same data at the county level to the extend possible. This is used for many local and regional competitions as well as employed in complementary systems outside of homelessness prevention and response.
The point in time explorer uses data from HUD’s annual point in time and housing inventory to describe the profile of homelessness nationally. HUD publishes continuum of care level data annually, and that data is explored in this dashboard along with dollar values for pro-rata need from every continuum.
Annually, each continuum of care where the Institute for Community Alliances operates, reports their system performance measures data. Here you will find that data organized by performance measure (including historical years) in a way that allows comparison to stated system performance goals.
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In 2022, Iowa received additional Treasury Department funds for the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program. As a part of this program, an online portal was created so that applicants for emergency housing interventions, such as Rapid Rehousing and Homelessness Prevention, are able to easily and quickly apply for assistance. This dashboard allows us to see how many submissions were made to that portal, and where those submissions are coming from.