PLANS, REPORTS & DOCUMENTS

Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)

Data Reports

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The McHenry County CoC regularly generates reports regarding local homelessness and the performance of the local homeless system. The most recent version of each report can be found by clicking the links below. 

 

Point-in-Time Count and Housing Inventory Count (Date)

The Point-in-Time (PIT) count is an annual count of sheltered people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January within the McHenry County homeless system. Every other year, this count also includes a count of unsheltered people experiencing homelessness. The Housing Inventory Count (HIC) is an annual point-in-time inventory of homeless beds and housing units within the CoC’s network of providers. Each count is planned, coordinated, and carried out locally, and included on the same report.

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System Performance Measures

System Performance Measures are a set of 7 performance indicators introduced by the 2009 HEARTH Act amendment to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. The HEARTH Act emphasizes viewing the local homeless response as a coordinated system of assistance options rather than as programs and funding sources that operate independently. To facilitate this perspective, the HEARTH Act requires communities to measure the performance of their entire CoC homeless system annually using the below measures:

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• Measure 1:  Length of Time Persons Remain Homeless​

• Measure 2: The Extent to Which Persons Who Exit Homelessness Return to Homelessness​

• Measure 3: Number of Homeless Persons​

• Measure 4: Employment and Income Growth for Homeless Persons in CoC Program-funded Projects​

• Measure 5: Number of Persons who Become Homeless for the First Time​

• Measure 6: Homelessness Prevention and Housing Placement of Persons Defined by Category 3 of HUD’s Homeless Definition in CoC Program-funded Projects​

• Measure 7: Successful Placement from Street Outreach and Successful Placement in Retention of Permanent Housing​​​​