Why aren't we asking people if they've ever been victims of violence while experiencing homelessness?

How will the test subjects be chosen?

And how many times they've been victims of violence while experiencing homelessness? Seems that they would be more vulnerable and in need than those who have perhaps spent time in jail or prison for perpetrating acts of violence against others.

Need to know more about the testing procedure.. issue with the number being tested and the questions

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I agree with Sean-I think it is important to capture information about violence while experiencing homelessness-a lot of individuals have mentioned experiencing violence in shelters

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@Dianne, thanks for your question no how people will be selected to participate. Dedicated Skilled Assessors, along with a few assessors who complete large numbers of assessments, will be trained to incorporate these questions into all assessments with single individuals for four weeks.

As a follow up, if we do not collect enough data during that time we will take more time.

I agree, violence on the streets/within shelters, should be a separate question

Maybe question4 to question up to question2

I would be in favor of changing the last question to say,

"If you are BIPOC, have you been discriminated against because of your race or ethnicity?"

Since the purpose is racial equity.

are those assessors trained in asking questions in a trauma informed way?

We assessed about 6000 people in the last year.

About 70% were single individuals.

I agree, Diane, it would be helpful to include BIPOC in that question

That would mean about 350 Individuals have been assessed per month.

Our goal is to set a minimum number but we would not stop asking questions since we are also committed to asking the questions for a month.

Also are we making sure to track the racial identity of the people we are testing the questions on? I assume so but I'm not sure if it was stated.

@Chante, in our survey we specifically asked about being discriminated against based on being Black or Brown. We received feedback to say we should take that piece out and say race or ethnicity. Can you say more about your take on this please?

@Diane, yes! We will disaggregate data by race and ethnicity.

In terms of discrimination why can't numbers 3 and 5 be consolidated

@Stephanie-thanks for that clarification-I thought BIPOC would be more inclusive than black or brown, but does not necessarily include ethnicity, so I am in agreement with the feedback

@Chante, thank you for that excellent feedback/insight/guidance.

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If you leave the wording as is, my concern is that you may have some white people who would say they have been discriminated against because of their race.

In short, I agree with Diane

good point

@Diane, right on!

These questions are listed in order of favorability, and we would group the discrimination questions together so that we do not have one question in between them.

Is there a reason that disability isn't included?

@Jesse, we do ask if people have a disability. Do you mean why we are not asking about discrimination based on having a disability?

@stephanie, Yes, thank you for that clarification

Putting 3 and 5 together makes it non-additive

good point, Lauren!

@Lauren, we have data from questions we already ask such as length of homelessness, unsheltered status, etc. that can also come to light as part of this process. We don't have data for questions like this, so this test will help us look at all of these pieces together.

As one example, we may find that some of these questions (or something like them) and information we already collect should be combined for a score.

@Stacey, that is data from Accelerated Moving Events.

It is the Expedited Housing Initiative data which includes the Accelerated Moving Events

also another form of housing discrimination in source of income.

I do not like the term Justice Involved. No really good term for it that I know of.

@Diane, as long as we take the word criminal out, I think anything else can work.

instead of Justice involved, could be interaction with the Justice system.

good idea, CJ

Yes Jesse, very important point

@Jesse, would housing instability be better?

As in, did your family experience housing instability?

Good point Jesse!!

I would include examples

Great! That sounds so very reasonable. :)

examples or something comparable makes a lot of sense

unfortunately, I have to log off for another meeting, but I appreciate all the work and insight being shared here. I do hope that as we are doing trauma-informed assessments that we are also providing resources for follow up. Otherwise, it feels like we are asking people to be vulnerable to collect data, but not providing resources to assist them in the short-term at least, which is something that communities of color have experienced

I absolutely agree with Chante!

is there a place for discrimination for sexual identity or preference?

Have any follow-up questions been considered to help create an index

I meant in one of the questions

Will answers to these questions be kept only in the CES process .. are any questions weighted more than others

If it helps to think about this way, we do have ties on the VI all of the time.

great question about weighting some questions

? on tie breakers … is one question more important than another

I think Lauren Cole has a hand up

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Thank you!!!

The CE Implementation Team is currently running a test with the three agencies with the highest rematch rate (starting March 15th) to learn more about this as well and course correct.

I got invited by a community member, is there a way to be added to a email list so that I can attend again in the future?

YES! And always feel great about forwarding as everyone is invited!

be sure to mention couch surfing

yes. that is a term young people use all the time!

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We have a test!!!!!

Thanks, everyone!

I'd be curious to apply these questions to apply these questions in survey form to people already housed in the CoC. Are we fixing a problem that doesn't exist?

Thank you all for taking this walk with us and allowing us to be along side your community as you take this journey.

@Sean, thank you for that suggestion. We did consider that and, at the point of initial review, may again look at doing that.

We hope to see you at the next session in April to review the test. Please help us get the word out about that when you see the invite. :)

This was a great meeting. Very informative. Thanks!

have a good day

thanks all!