Neighborhood Snapshot

Through our shared data efforts we are working on a developing the best mechanism for consistently identifying our families and following their progression. In the mean time, we are using data from the housing authority combined with HSA data to look at the picture in the community and see how it changes in aggregate. This data captures the 1203 families living directly in our public housing developments. Those families disproportionately represent the families who are fragile and in crisis in our neighborhoods.

Currently, of those 1203:

We will update these figures every quarter so check back to see our progress!

On-Ramp Programs

Ultimately, the most important thing for COO is whether families are moving up the ladder out of crisis and into stable situations which allow them to build their families, communities, and flourish in our city. However, it will take a great deal of time for many of our families to make those transitions given the complexity of the issues they face both individually and together as a family. The programs, engagement strategies, and systems change elements we are building with our partners are designed to either eliminate some of the barriers to that progression or provide positive resources to help families achieve their goals.

In the short term, we need to track engagement in these programs to make sure we have been able to build the on-ramps we set out to build, changed the systems we set out to change, and engaged the residents we set out to engage. In the long term, if we do not see movement in our dashboard, we can use these metrics to test what hypotheses seemed to have worked and where our efforts didn’t produce the outcomes we hoped. Did employment rates remain flat because we didn’t build a good on-ramp? Or because we didn’t reach the right residents? Or because other barriers got in the way? Unless we track these activities it will be difficult to tell if they are having the effect we hope on the overall picture. While this is not a scientific cause and effect relationship, it gives us our first set of milestones and helps define the theories we are testing. Below are the results to date for our specific on-ramp programs.