MPHASIS Mutual Progress on Homelessness through Advancing and Strengthening Information Systems Nati

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MPHASIS Mutual Progress on Homelessness
throughAdvancing and Strengthening Information
SystemsNational Seminar Ireland

• Dublin, November 7th 2008
• Claire Gavin (Department of Environment)
• Marie Falvey (Department of Environment)

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Policy Context of Homelessness in Ireland

• Legislative background
• Housing Act 1988
• Homeless Initiative/Homeless Agency
• Cross Department Team

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Policy Context continued

• Integrated Strategy 2000
• Youth Homelessness Strategy 2001
• Preventative Strategy 2002
• Independent Review of Integrated and Preventative
  Strategies 2006

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Partnership Focus

• National Homeless Consultative Committee
• Data sub-group on Homelessness
• Local Homeless fora and action plans

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New Homeless Strategy

• Prevent homelessness
• Eliminate the need to sleep rough
• Eliminate long term homelessness
• Meet long term housing needs
• Ensure effective services for homeless people and
• Better co-ordinated funding arrangements

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Financial Resources

• 2009 Over 95 million
• 620 million since 2000 (non capital) state
  funding

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Next Steps

• Implementation Plan

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Key topics in the Synthesis Report

• National homelessness monitoring information
  strategy
• Data collection
• Definition of homelessness for data collection
• Directories/databases of services for homeless
  people
• Service provider client registration system
• Other sources of data

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National homeless monitoring information strategy
and data collection

• Housing Needs Assessment
• Counted In surveys
• Rough Sleeper counts
• Holistic Needs Assessment
• Shared database client tracking and registration
  system
• Census data

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Definition of Homelessness for data collection

• Statutory definition
• Application of definition for operational
  purposes
• ETHOS Typology
• Harmonised definition of homelessness

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Extent of directories/databases of services for
homeless people

• Welcome guidelines in synthesis report about
  establishing and maintaining a directory of
  services
• Significant progress has been made in this area

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Extent of service provider client registration
system

• In house database registration systems
  (non-governmental organisations)
• LINK
• Rollout of national system of shared database and
  client registration system

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Core Variables and Harmonisation

• Research strand of MPHASIS project
  questionnaires on core variables
• Non core variables

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Other Sources of data

• Health
• Prisons
• Probation
• Social Welfare system
• Office for Social Inclusion
• Domestic and Sexual and Gender based Violence