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SAAP national data collection: Accompanying children special collection
Authors: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Publication Date: 2000
This is a special report of the SAAP National Data Collection on accompanying children who were assisted at SAAP agencies between 21 May and 30 June 1998. The report provides information on accompanying children who attended SAAP agencies with people who were homeless or at risk of being homeless.
Tags: children; health; welfare
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Improving Lives by Improving Practices: Data Collection and Reporting at Brattleboro Area Drop-In Center
Authors: Nickles, Krystle F.
Publication Date: 2011
In December 2010, Vermont’s Brattleboro Area Drop-In Center received the 2010 PATH Exemplary Practice Award for Data Collection and Reporting at the Biennial PATH Grantee Meeting. The award recognizes the agency for making significant improvements through data collection and reporting in the lives of the people it serves. (Author)
Tags: Data collection and reporting; Homeless Management Information System ; HMIS; data quality; PATH exemplary practice awards
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Sixth Progress Report on Hud's Strategy for Improving Homeless Data Collection, Reporting and Analysis
Publication Date: 2007
This Sixth Annual Progress Report updates the Congress on HUD's efforts in calendar year 2006 to implement its Strategy for Homeless Data Collection, Reporting and Analysis.
Tags: statistical data; statistics; homelessness; Definitions, Estimates and report cards; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness
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Education for Homeless Children and Youths Program: Analysis of 2007-2008 Federal Data Collection and Three-Year Comparison
Organization: National Center for Homeless Education
Publication Date: 2009
This report, compiled in April 2009, provides a summary and analysis of the 2007-08 state data collection required by the U.S. Department of Education of the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youths program. The 2007-08 data is also presented in comparison to the 2005-06 and 2006-07 data collections. (Authors)
Tags: education
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Engaging women who are homeless in community-based research using emerging qualitative data collection techniques
Authors: Walsh, Christine A. ; Rutherford, Gayle; Kuzmak, Natasha
Journal Name: International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches
Publication Date: 2010
In 2007, a community-university partnership involving a large inner-city homeless shelter coordinated the study, Home: Perspectives of women who are homeless. The primary objective was to explore the meaning of home among women who are homeless in order to inform the development of transitional shelters. The theoretical framework was feminist informed community-based research (CBR). In addition to qualitative interviewing, multiple qualitative data collection methods were utilised, s...
Tags: women; photovoice; community based research; transitional shelters; digital storytelling
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Comparability of homelessness data collection across the EU - A case study of six European cities April
Organization: FEANTSA
Publication Date: 2011
...” project (2008-2009) which recommended a common definition of homelessness as well as a list of statistical variables on homelessness for European data collection purposes.
The need for EU statistics on homelessness (stock, flow, prevalence) has been expressed by various data users and stakeholders, including FEANTSA. EU debates on homelessness measurement have recently been fuelled by the 2011 round of population and housing censuses (which will include the enumeratio...
Tags: homeless
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Emergency Shelters, Transitional Housing, and Battered Women's Shelters Data Collection Project 12th Annual Report
Authors: Helmstetter, Craig; Hentricks, Shelly; McLain, Laura
Organization: Wilder Research Center
Publication Date: 2004
This is the thirteenth annual report about the use of emergency shelters, transitional housing, and battered women’s shelters in Ramsey County. Emergency shelters and transitional housing programs participate in the project by providing client-level data that allows us to unduplicate the number of people served, track returns to shelter and total nights in shelter, and examine the flow between emergency shelter and transitional housing. Battered women’s shelters provide counts of persons serv...
Tags: transitional housing; women; advocacy and policy
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2005 National Homeless Management Information Strategies Conference - the Canadian Experience:Homeless Data Collection, Reporting and Performance Measurement
Authors: Jeff Bullard; HRSDC
Publication Date: 2005
Recognizing that homelessness affects the social and economic well-being of our communities, and that it undermines the human dignity and access to opportunities that are the birthright of every Canadian, the government of Canada launched the National Homeless Initiative in 1999.The National Homelessness Initiative (NHI) helps to ensure community access to services, supports and programs aimed at alleviating and preventing homelessness in all provinces and territories across Canada.
Tags: homelessness; dignity; nhi; prevention; access to supports and services; Definitions, Estimates and report cards; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness; program planning and evaluation; Cost Analysis of Homelessness
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Development of a Homeless Data Collection and Management System: Phase One: Final Report
Authors: Aubry, Tim D.; Currie, Shawn; Pinsent, Celine
Publication Date: 1996
The following libraries own the book:
http://worldcat.org/oclc/45670624?tab=holdings
Tags: housing; Definitions, Estimates and report cards; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness
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Homelessness: A common vocabulary could help agencies collaborate and collect more consistent data
Authors: U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Publication Date: 2010
Multiple federal programs provide homelessness assistance through programs targeted to those experiencing homelessness or through mainstream programs that broadly assist low-income populations. Programs' definitions of homelessness range from including primarily people in homeless shelters or on the street to also including those living with others because of economic hardship. GAO was asked to address (1) the availability, completeness, and usefulness of federal data on homelessness, (2...
Tags: vocabulary; definition; homeless; federal data
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Enhancing HMIS Data Quality
Organization: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development
Publication Date: 2005
Collecting quality information in any type of social research is a challenging task; it is especially challenging when collecting data on people experiencing homelessness. Faced with daily tasks such as looking for food, seeking shelter and income, or caring for their children, providing information to be entered into a homeless management information system (HMIS) is not one of their chief interests. Distrust of the social service system and mental health issues may further...
Tags: HMIS; statistical data
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Using your Star data
Authors: Homeless Link
Publication Date: 2009
The Outcomes Star is designed to enable services to take an overview of their achievements by providing valuable data on the outcomes of service users. It opens the possibility of comparing outcomes for different types of service user (e.g. men and women) or different services or interventions. However, to use the data in this way, it is essential that the data collected on individual service users is summarised across the service on a regular basis.
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Massachusetts Family Bed Register: When Data Works for Us!
Authors: Martin, Melissa
Publication Date: 2010
With the overwhelming daily demands of homeless outreach, many street outreach workers understandably cringe at the mention of more data collection. The Massachusetts Bed Register was implemented to improve data collection for the Massachusetts Emergency Family Shelter System and it ultimately helped families access emergency shelter by creating a more efficient placement process.
Tags: HMIS; data collection; data quality; emergency shelter
1 Recommendations
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Gvrd - Regional Homelessness - Research Data
Authors: The Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness
Publication Date: 2008
A collection of research reports on homelessness by The Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness in Vancouver area
Tags: statistics; count; Definitions, Estimates and report cards; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness
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Spotlight: Integrating Mobile Data Management Technology in Outreach
Authors: Fuller, Sarah Paige
Publication Date: 2008
Data collection and management in PATH programs are critical elements of program administration. Efficient and reliable record-keeping is necessary for effective program management and quality care. Documenting the information collected during outreach in individual records and data reporting systems is a challenge, and we continue to strive to develop tools for improvement in this area. We know that technology can assist us in our work.
Tags: Spotlight; statistical data; outreach
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2 Comments
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Analyzing Outcome Information: Getting the Most From Data
Authors: Hatry, Harry; Cowan, Jake; Hendricks, Michael
Publication Date: 2004
Raw data that nonprofit organizations obtain from their outcome monitoring procedures, no matter how good, need to be processed and analyzed before the information can be useful to managers and staff. This guide, the fifth in the Urban Institute's series on outcome management for nonprofit organizations, describes steps that nonprofit organizations can take in performing this analysis.
This guide is unique in offering suggestions to nonprofits for analyzing regularly collected...
Tags: local data/report
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HUD HMIS Data and Technical Standards-June 2009
Authors: Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publication Date: 2009
This draft revision to the 2004 Technical Standards proposes additional measures and changes to existing measures to refine the data collect to best inform the future of homeless services.
Tags: HMIS; Federal Register; Data and technical standards
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Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS); Data and Technical Standards Final Notice
Authors: Culhane, Dennis P.
Publication Date: 2004
On July 22, 2003 (68 FR 43430), HUD published a draft Notice that described the data and technical standards for implementing Homeless Management Information Systems, HMIS. An HMIS is a computerized data collection application that facilitates the collection of information on homeless individuals and families using residential or other homeless assistance services and stores that data in an electronic format. Because an HMIS has the capacity to integrate ...
Tags: homeless management information systems; access to supports and services; causes of homelessness; Definitions, Estimates and report cards; Demography & Characteristics of Homelessness
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Treatment Episode Data Set—Summary Tables for Each State
Authors: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Publication Date: 2007
The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) is a compilation of data on the demographic and substance abuse characteristics of admissions to (and more recently, on discharges from) substance abuse treatment. The data are routinely collected by State administrative systems and then submitted to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in a standard format. Because of the logistics involved in collecting and standardizing admissions and dischar...
Tags: substance use; treatment; research and evaluation services
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In Our Own Voice: The Collective Wisdom of Shelter Workers
Authors: Kim Smyrski
Publication Date: 2013
This exploratory study sought to understand the current lived experiences of shelter workers in the Province of Manitoba. Eleven participants from four shelters took part in this research endeavour. Using Concept Mapping as the methodology, a map of their experiences was constructed. Territories were named and participants analyzed and interpreted the results. Four themes emerged: 1) Shelter worker’s beliefs assist in navigating the territories; 2) Insufficient funding of shelters impacts shelter work...