Chronic Homelessness

Chronic Homelessness Webinar Series

HUD has prepared three brief webinars to assist CoCs and HMIS Lead Agencies understand how HMIS can be used to assist in identifying people who are experiencing chronic homelessness.

• Capturing the information about a client’s living situation in HMIS needed to calculate their chronic homeless status. Every HMIS-participating project has to record clients’ living situation and disability status in HMIS at project entry and can simply record that information based on client self-response.
• Using HMIS to document a client’s chronic homeless status for eligibility purposes. This is achieved by looking at a client’s entries and exits in HMIS, rather than the self-reported data collected at each project entry.
• Reporting on chronic homelessness combines these two concepts by looking at self-reported data AND enrollment histories for each client to generate reports on the people experiencing chronic homelessness in your CoC.

These webinars are intended to clarify the fundamental distinctions between these concepts and to provide information that can be woven into appropriate provider and end-user trainings.

Resources

• Client-Level System Use and Length of Time Homeless Report
• Convening on the Definition of Chronic Homelessness, May 2012 - Summary
• Criteria and Benchmark for Achieving the Goal of Ending Chronic Homelessness
• Definition of "Chronic Homelessness" Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Early Childhood Self-Assessment Tool for Family Shelters
• Flowchart of HUD’s Definition of Chronic Homelessness
• FY 2018 CoC Competition Focus: DedicatedPLUS - Explaining the New Strategy for Ending Chronic Homelessness
• FY 2016 CoC Competition Focus: Ending Chronic Homelessness
• HEARTH: Defining "Chronically Homeless" Final Rule Webinar Slides
• Notice CPD-14-012: Prioritizing Persons Experiencing Chronic Homelessness in Permanent Supportive Housing and Recordkeeping Requirements for Documenting Chronic Homeless Status
• Notice CPD-16-11: Prioritizing Persons Experiencing Chronic Homelessness and Other Vulnerable Homeless Persons in Permanent Supportive Housing
• Opening Doors: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
• Sample Chronic Homelessness Documentation Checklist
• SNAPS In Focus: Final Rule on Defining "Chronically Homeless" Part I: How We Got Here
• SNAPS In Focus: Final Rule on Defining "Chronically Homeless" Part II: Policy and Practical Implications of the New Definition
• SNAPS Weekly Focus: Giving Priority to Chronically Homeless Persons
• The Family Options Study Interim Report