HOST Data Walk 2014 Neighborhood Revitalization Conference Presentation

HOST Data Walk 2014 Neighborhood Revitalization Conference Presentation Elsa Falkenburger

What is HOST? • Housing Opportunities and Services Together (HOST) Demonstration • Chicago, IL, Altgeld Gardens • Portland, OR, New Columbia and Tamarack Gardens • Washington, DC, Benning Terrace • HOST Network • Pittsburgh, PA; Baltimore, MD; New York, NY • Interest from various CA locations and Puerto Rico

HOST Data Collection • Baseline survey for adults and youth (ages 12 -17) • Program Data • Program Observations • Focus groups with parents and youth • Interviews with staff • Cost information

Why a Data Walk? • Share data collected from the community back with the community and empower them to take informed action of their own • Help explain nuances in program data and provide context for survey data results • Inform HOST services and programming

How we did it - logistics • Outreach • Food! And other incentives • Child care, computer lab • Large space, small groups • Discussion groups – residents/service providers

Considerations • What are we trying to achieve with our data walk? • Discuss the risks vs. benefits of sharing certain data points, with certain audiences in the room, etc… • Use language and user friendly charts • Balance strengths and weaknesses • Include guiding questions

Data Walk Directions • We have printed posters with the data we want to share with you and hung them up in stations around the room. • We will talk through the first poster station together. • We will then break into small groups to view the rest of the poster stations. • Each group will have 5 minutes at each poster station. • Groups will move to the next poster station until I indicate it is time to move to the next station • While at each station, participants should look at the posters and think about them with their group. Think of yourself as a member of the community or one of the service providers working with the families.

Discussion Questions While you walk around and look at the posters, ask yourself the following questions… 1. What surprises you about the information? Anything? 2. What is the good news and the bad news?

Station 1 2012 Survey Data

Sense of Community Residents feel that people in the neighborhood… generally get along with each other can be trusted 46% 72% 24% 52% 35% 22% Altgeld are close-knit 45% 63% 37% Portland DC share the same values are willing to help 35% 54% 73% 42%

Sense of Community • One in four residents at Altgeld (24%) and in DC (22%) feel their neighbors can be trusted compared to one out of every two residents in Portland (52%). • Fewer Altgeld residents (35%) feel the community shares the same values compared to 54% in Portland 73% in DC. • More than half of residents at Altgeld (54%) and in Portland (73%) report neighbors are willing to help compared to 42% in DC.

Food & Hunger When asked about food in their homes, residents reported. . 70% 64% 60%60% 58% 60% 50% 49% 50% 35% 40% 30% 21% 20% 10% 0% cut size of meals worried whether food bought didn't in past 12 months food would run out last and they didn't before they got have money to get money to buy any more Altgeld Portland DC more

Food & Hunger • Fewer residents at Altgeld (21%) have cut the size of their meals in the past 12 months than in Portland (35%) and in DC (30%). • Half of Altgeld residents (50%) worried about food running out before they got money to buy more – less than both Portland at 64% and DC at 58%. • 60% of both Portland DC residents reported that sometimes food purchased didn’t last and they didn’t have money to get more. Both sites are higher than Altgeld which reported 49%.

What we learned about our data • Food insecurity is thought to be much higher than reported, and complex • Doesn’t capture much about quality/nuances in communication and its effect on participation • Safety is a big concern that plays into youth engagement levels

Station 2 Adult Participation and Meetings with Program Staff

Discussion Question(s): 1. Why did families participate more in some months than others?

0% 30% Mar 14 60% Feb 14 Jan 14 Dec 13 Nov 13 Oct 13 Sep 13 Aug 13 Jul 13 Jun 13 May 13 Apr 13 Mar 13 20% Feb 13 Jan 13 Dec 12 Nov 12 Oct 12 Sep 12 Aug 12 Jul 12 Jun 12 May 12 Apr 12 Mar 12 Feb 12 Jan 12 10% Dec 11 Nov 11 Adult Participation in HOST Services % of adults to participate in HOST services 70% 57% 54% 50% 40% 33% 19% 11%

Average Number of Meetings with Case Manager 3, 5 3, 26 2, 95 3 2, 5 2, 26 2, 27 2 Heads of Households (HOHs) 1, 88 1, 5 1 0, 5 14 ар - 4 м в 1 ян 13 3 но я- н 1 3 се л 1 ию -1 3 3 м ай -1 3 м ар в 1 ян 12 2 но я- н 1 2 се л 1 ию -1 2 м ай 12 ар - 2 м в 1 ян но я- 11 0

Station 3 Youth Participation

Discussion Question(s): 1. Why did youth participate more in some months than others? 2. Which youth participated in HOST the most?

HOST Youth Participation in Services Number of children 200 175 180 157 160 140 152 150 120 100 80 60 58 40 52 37 20 м ар - 14 4 ев -1 ф 4 в 1 ян 13 кде 13 но я- -1 3 ок т 3 н 1 се 13 гав 3 л 1 ию 13 нию -1 3 м ай ап р1 3 0

Youth Participation by Age 0 -5 year-olds 100 6 -13 year-olds 14 -18 year-olds 89 90 81 80 69 70 60 50 41 32 40 29 30 17 18 20 31 26 4 10 12 3 м ар - 14 4 ев -1 ф 4 в 1 ян 13 кде 13 но я- -1 3 ок т 3 н 1 се 13 гав 3 л 1 ию 13 нию -1 3 м ай ап р1 3 0

Station 4 Lease Violations

Discussion Question(s): 1. Did HOST help families address housing problems?

70% of HOST Households have had at least one lease violation in the last two years.

HOST Participation and Lease Violations Count of household heads with lease violations by month Count of engaged household heads by month 160 150 144 140 120 100 80 80 60 56 54 40 20 Mar 14 Feb 14 Jan 14 Dec 13 Nov 13 Oct 13 Sep 13 Aug 13 Jul 13 Jun 13 May 13 Apr 13 Mar 13 Feb 13 Jan 13 Dec 12 Nov 12 Oct 12 Sep 12 Aug 12 Jul 12 Jun 12 May 12 Apr 12 Mar 12 Feb 12 Jan 12 Dec 11 Nov 11 0 12