Descriptions and Methodologies of Dashboard Visualizations

This displays a bar chart of the distinct count of individuals disaggregated by their destination upon exiting services, sorted from highest to lowest. This can be further disaggregated by county and program using the dashboard filters. Exit destinations were mapped following HUD guidance as described here. An explanation of each group is as follows:

• A Permanent Housing destination includes staying or living with family or friends on a permanent basis, renting with or without ongoing subsidy, or owning a residence with or without ongoing subsidy.
• A Homeless Situation destination includes returning to a place not meant for human habitation (e.g., a vehicle, abandoned building, bus/train/subway station/airport, or anywhere outside), emergency shelter, including a hotel or motel paid for with an emergency shelter voucher or Safe Haven.
• A Temporary Housing destination includes transitional housing, residential project or halfway house, hotel or motel paid for without an emergency shelter voucher, or staying or living with family or friends on a temporary basis.
• An Institutional Setting destination includes foster care home or foster group home, hospital or other residential non-psychiatric medical facility, jail, prison, or juvenile detention facility, long-term care facility or nursing home, psychiatric hospital or other psychiatric facility, or substance abuse treatment facility or detox center.
• The Other includes instances where no data was collected, no exit interview was completed, the client is deceased, client doesn’t know or did not answer, or a destination that does not fall into the other categories mentioned above.

• A Homeless Prevention project is one that offers services and/or financial assistance necessary to prevent a person from entering an emergency shelter or a place not meant for human habitation.
• Emergency Shelter contains both types of emergency shelter: 
• Night by Night is defined as is a shelter type to be used by some high-volume shelters and shelters where a significant proportion of clients spend a night at the shelter as needed on an irregular basis. 
• Emergency Shelter–Entry Exit is defined as a project that offers temporary shelter (lodging) for people experiencing homelessness in general or for specific populations of people experiencing homelessness. 
• Transitional Housing is defined as a project that provides temporary lodging and is designed to facilitate the movement of individuals and families experiencing homelessness into permanent housing within a specified period of time, but no longer than 24 months.
• The Street Outreach project type is defined as a project that offers services necessary to reach out to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, connect them with emergency shelter, housing, or critical services, and provide urgent, non-facility-based care to those who are unwilling or unable to access emergency shelter, housing, or an appropriate health facility.
• Rehousing & Housing Assistance contains all permanent housing focused programing which are listed below:
• Permanent Housing - Housing with Services is defined as a project that offers permanent housing and supportive services to assist people experiencing homelessness to live independently but does not limit eligibility to individuals with disabilities or families in which one adult or child has a disability.
• Permanent Housing – Permanent Supportive Housing is defined as a project that offers permanent housing and supportive services to assist people experiencing homelessness with a disability (individuals with disabilities or families in which one adult or child has a disability) to live independently.
• Rapid Rehousing is defined as a permanent housing project that provides housing relocation and stabilization services and/or short and/or medium-term rental assistance as necessary to help an individual or family experiencing homelessness move as quickly as possible into permanent housing and achieve stability in that housing.
• Day Shelter is defined as a project that offers daytime facilities and services (no lodging) for people experiencing homelessness.
• Supportive Services is defined as a project that does not provide housing or housing assistance, but offers supportive services (other than Street Outreach or Coordinated Entry) to address the specific needs of participants.

• Other is defined as a project that offers services, but does not provide housing or housing assistance, and cannot otherwise be categorized as another HUD-defined project type.

1. Adult(s) & Children indicate that one or more adults are accompanied by one or more youth under the age of 18.
2. Adult(s) Only indicate that one or more adults entered a program without youth under the age of 18.
3. Only Children refer to a single youth under the age of 18 entering a program.
4. Unknown households cover any other combination of adults and children not covered by the previous types.