Hispanic as Race as well as Ethnicity.
This question will provide a broad picture of demographics
ICA's Perspective:
More inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community
ICA's Perspective:
We should add two or more races or a multi-racial category.
The U.S. census added multiracial as a racial category back in 2000. It's time we catch up to the times. It is more inclusive than just listing all your races because in a way it makes you rank your races and that may determine how people identify you and what services they refer you too, based on which race they deem to be more dominant.
ICA's Perspective:
In an 18 county CoC with mostly scattered site ES, TH, RRH, and PSH, there are many HMIS providers that can place people in multiple counties. County Boards and City Councils can benefit from county-level data. Also, in looking at racial disparities in our system, county-level data would be very helpful.
Rural CoC have a lot of different sub-communities and county level data would be a big help (e.g. does Lyon County (where Marshall is) have more racial disparity than Worthington when it comes to need and the system response). County level data (as opposed to CoC-level data) would help us target our system improvement attempts more efficiently.
ICA's Perspective:
It would be helpful to know who the assessor is if there is any questions about the assessment.
Plus we run monthly reports and need to know who the assessors is
ICA's Perspective:
This data will help determine if a person is already working with a provider. This will help other providers work together to get the person the resources that they need to get housing. Over all if we all collaborate to get a person housed it will speed up the process, that will eventually decrease the amount of people that are homeless.
ICA's Perspective:
This question should be asked once the client is in a housing program
[ICA is reaching out to submitter for clarification 7/6/2021]
This is a sensitive question to ask and can be triggering/re-traumatizing, if you ask too many follow up questions about the clients military status and experience before having the change to build rapport with the client. Especially if the client had a negative experience in the military. Questions such as: For approximately how long did you serve (does it matter, a veteran is a veteran?), What type of discharge did you have?, Do you receive VA Disability benefits?, etc. Those should wait until the client is in a housing program and should not be done at the ASC intake process. The only question ASC should ask is, did you serve in the military? And the client can answer yes or no.
Please see the External Notes documented in this request to edit the data element.
Would like to have guidance from LGBTQIA+ stakeholders in how to ask this question and what options to provide so that the list doesn't leave people out or make them feel unsafe.
Would like guidance from LGBTQIA+ and youth stakeholders on who should be asked this question. Is the question for children unnecessary or important? Does LGBTQIA+ identity of a child affect housing access for a household with children in the same way it might affect a single adult or youth?
Our CoC's workgroup evaluating Coordinated Entry asked why there is no way to evaluate system outcomes or disparities in outcomes for people who identify as LGBTQ like we do for other overrepresented subpopulations. They noted that we often state that persons in this subpopulation are at higher risk of homelessness or face barriers in accessing housing, but we don't actually have any way to demonstrate that or measure changes in our system.
Our group didn't feel like they knew how to craft the question given limited representation from LGBTQIA+ individuals in this committee. We would like to have guidance from LGBTQIA+ stakeholders in how to ask this question and what options to provide so that the list doesn't leave people out or make them feel unsafe.
ICA's Perspective: