Secretary Shinsekis Goal End Homelessness Among Veterans in 5 Years We will provide new help for homeless Veterans because those heroes have a home its the country they served the United States of America And until we reach a day when not a single Veteran sleeps on the street ID: 138188
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Role of HMIS in VA’s Plan to End Homelessness Among VeteransSlide2
Secretary Shinseki’s Goal:
End Homelessness Among Veterans in 5 Years
“We will provide new help for homeless Veterans because those heroes have a home – it’s the country they served, the United States of America. And until we reach a day when not a single Veteran sleeps on the street our business is unfinished.”
- President Barack ObamaSlide3
Strategic Efforts to End Veteran Homelessness
VA 5 Year Plan to End Veteran Homelessness
VA Strategic Plan for 2010-2014
United States Interagency Council on Homelessness’ (USICH) “Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to End Homelessness”
Local Ten Year Plans to End Homelessness
National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
All
of these efforts require accurate and timely data describing extent and scope of veteran homelessness.Slide4
VA’s Plan to End Homelessness
Announced on November 3rd, 2009 at the National Summit on Homeless Veterans
Based
on six strategic pillars:
1. Outreach/Education
2. Prevention
3. Income/Employment/Benefits
4. Treatment
5. Housing/Supportive Services
6. Community Partnerships
“
Objective 2:
Strengthen the capacity of public and private organizations by increasing knowledge about collaboration, homelessness, and successful interventions to
present
and end it
.”
HMIS provide infrastructure to achieve this objectiveSlide5
VA’s Strategic Plan
Released in June 2010Names 13 goals, including “eliminate veteran homelessness”
Among the key statements made in discussing the goal to eliminate veteran homelessness:
“Robust management system:
We will hold ourselves accountable with a system to monitor outcomes for individual Veterans as well as the outcomes of our programs so that the homeless are not nameless to us.”Slide6
USICH Opening Doors
Released in June 2010
“
It is simply unacceptable for individuals, children, families and our nation’s veterans to be faced with homelessness in this country
.”
President Obama
June 18, 2009Slide7
USICH Opening Doors
Goals: 1. Finish the job of ending chronic homelessness in 5 years
2.
Prevent and end homelessness among veterans in 5 years
3.
Prevent and end homelessness for families, youth and children in 10 years
4.
Set a path to ending all types of homelessness
Themes:
1.
Increase leadership, collaboration and civic engagement
2.
Increase assess to stable and affordable housing
3.
Increase economic security
4.
Improve health and stability
5. Retool the homeless crisis response system
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National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
Center’s Goals:
Promote the development of
policy & practice
Develop
new empirical knowledge
Provide
education /training
for VA & community partners & disseminate evidence-based/emerging best practices
Support
implementation
of relevant research findings into clinical practice
Partnership
between:
Department of Veteran’s Affairs
University of Pennsylvania
University
of Southern Florida
UMass Medical School and the Yale School of MedicineSlide9
HUD’s Commitment to
Ending Homelessness Among Veterans
“One
out of every six men and women in our shelters has worn our country’s uniform, and that is a national disgrace. It is also the reason HUD put together a strategic plan to end homelessness among veterans by 2015. Not reduce it, not redefine
It
, but end it
.”
Secretary Shaun DonovanSlide10
HUD
Strategic Plan InitiativesFY 2010–2015 Homeownership
Assisting homeowners who are at risk of losing their homes due to foreclosure
Restoring the Federal Housing Administration’s excess capital
reserves
Improving Outcomes for the Poorest
Families
Reducing the number of households with worst case housing needs
Increasing the proportion of HUD-assisted families in low-poverty and racially diverse
communities
Ending
Homelessness
Reducing the number of chronically homeless families, individuals, and
veteransSlide11
HUD Strategic Plan Initiatives
FY 2010–2015 Catalyzing Energy- and Transportation-Efficient Homes
Completing
cost-effective energy and green retrofits of public, assisted, and other HUD-supported
affordable
homes
Reducing the share of household income spent on the combined costs of housing and transportation
Revitalizing the Gulf
Coast
Expanding the rate of occupied or repurposed Gulf Coast homes in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas ▪▪severely impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita from 2005.
Transforming
HUD
Making HUD the “Most Improved Large Agency” in the ▪▪
Best Places to Work in the Federal Government
report
Increasing the percentage of customers that are “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with “Timeliness of Decision-▪▪Making” as measured in the survey of
Partner Satisfaction with HUD’s Performance
.
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Collaboration between Federal Agencies to End Veteran Homelessness
There has been a dedicated effort for collaboration across governmental agencies to:Understand the
scope of
the problem
How many veterans are homeless and where are they?
Starts with good data. That’s why, in the effort to end homelessness among veterans, the departments are using data to monitor the effectiveness and efficiency of our services to veterans
.
Focus
on
identifying what strategies work best and how to deliver those strategies
HPRP (and SSVF), HUD and VA’s
efforts to
prevent homelessness
among servicemen and women have been incredibly
successful
VASH, collaboration
between HUD and Veterans Affairs
, helping
more than 21,000 veterans.Slide13
Collaboration between Federal Agencies to End Veteran Homelessness
Investing in efforts to end homelessness saves taxpayers money by ensuring America’s most vulnerable are not sent through the revolving doors of emergency rooms,
shelters,
and jails.
VA and HUD have increased funding
to end
homelessness through new and existing programs
in
2011
– HPRP, SSVF, ESG, VASHSlide14
Collaboration between Federal Agencies to End Veteran Homelessness
VA, HUD, DOL, USICH and the White House are dedicated to addressing this crisis. Collaboration and coordination among federal partners is critical. All have expressed a commitment to work together until
homelessness is no longer a problem for our nation’s veterans.Slide15
For More Information
VA’s 5 Year Plan to End Homelessnesshttp://www.oregon.gov/ODVA/TASKFORCE/reintegration/FiveYearPlan-PPT.pdf?ga=t
VA’s Strategic Plan
http://www1.va.gov/op3/Docs/StrategicPlanning/VA_2010_2014_Strategic_Plan.pdf
USICH Federal Plan to End Homelessness
http://www.ich.gov/PDF/OpeningDoors_2010_FSPPreventEndHomeless.pdf
Local Ten Year Plans to End Homelessness
http://www.usich.gov/slocal/plans/index.html
National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
http://www1.va.gov/homeless/NationalCenter.asp