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Ending Community Homelessness Sdf Coalition What is ECHO?  Ending Community Homelessness Coalition  Lead agency for the Austin/Travis County Continuum of Care (CoC)  You may know us from:  Annual Point in Time Count  NOFA Applications  Homeless Management Information System (HMIS, or ServicePoint)  Coordinated Entry/Coordinated Assessment What is Coordinated Entry? Coordinated Entry  Common Access  No Wrong Door approach  Common Assessment  Eligibility and Vulnerability  Common Assignment  Prioritization and Referrals What are the principles behind Coordinated Entry?  Housing First – Housing is a basic human right, not a privilege or a reward for good behavior.  Client Choice – Clients are the expert on their own experiences and needs, and most people experiencing homelessness today do NOT want to be homeless.  Human Dignity - All people deserve to be treated with respect, empathy, and personal autonomy, regardless of past or current behavior.  Equity – Systematic privilege is real and pervasive, and we must take affirmative steps in systems design and implementation to achieve equitable outcomes for groups who are systematically oppressed. DACC Participation  Common Access  Targeted engagement and trained assessors (both stand- alone and in partnership with HOST)  Common Assessment  Coordinates AHAC feedback on systems development  Navigation services for clients who need documentation or engagement assistance  Common Assignment  DACC ESG RRH programs  DACC PSH does not participate, but CM’s do support clients served by other programs (such as CoC PSH) Evaluations and Equity  System Performance  Past and Current Steps Measures  Successful Referrals/Enrollments  Exits to Housing  Housing Retention  Equity Analyses  Equity in Assessment and Assignment  Equity in Enrollments and Exits  VI-SPDAT V1 and V2 Analyses  Affirmative Access  Increased Reliability  New Version Adoptions  Equity Task Group  Analysis of 17 individual existing prioritization factors  Adoption of 8 new factors in July  Further exploration of all 25 factors Additional Questions?  The most recent assessment access information can always be found at www.austinecho.org/ca  I can also always be reached for questions at prestonpetty@austinecho.org  THANK YOU for your time and work.