Runaway and Homeless Youth (Retired)

 

The Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) dashboard is a tool for RHY program managers and stakeholders to review the performance of the RHY programs. The dashboard includes outcomes at exit tiles, some participant characteristic tiles and finally some program management tiles. These tiles are useful in preparing to submit the RHY annual report.

Due to the nature of several visualizations, this dashboard is best used for live demonstrations or on-line postings.

Included Tiles

Safe & Appropriate Exit

This tile combines the dimensions from the Safe & Appropriate RHY data element.

Fields

• Custom Dimensions
  • Safe Exit - Caseworker - combines unknown responses into "Unknown" group

• • Positive Connections Outside of Project - combines the "connections" elements R19.3, R19.4 and R19.5

 

• • • Pivot on Positive Connections Outside of Project
• Enrollments, Count

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Active in Project: is equal to No
• Enrollments, Is Last Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: Is equal to:
  • HHS: RHY – Basic Center Program (prevention and shelter)
  • HHS: RHY – Maternity Group Home for Pregnant and Parenting Youth
  • HHS: RHY – Transitional Living Program
  • HHS: RHY – Street Outreach Project
  • HHS: RHY – Demonstration Project
• Programs, Project Type Code: Emergency Shelter, Transitional Housing
• Custom Filter:

 

Visualization

This tile uses a Donut Multiple visualizations. This type is appropriate for some pivot charts.

Each donut represents the exit status of the client: Safe, Unknown, or Unsafe. The sections of each donut represent the client's connections outside of the RHY program.:

• Adult, Peer or Community Connections
• Client has No Connections
• Worker doesn't know

Exit Destination

This tile categorizes the recorded exit destinations according to the HUD HMIS designations. (See Appendix A) For destinations that are not included in the annual report, the standard HUD HMIS designations were used.

Fields

• Custom Dimension
  • Exit Destinations
    • In the formula area of the Custom Dimension screen, paste the following

• Save
• Enrollments, Count

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Active in Project: Is equal to No
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit

Visualization

This tile is displayed as a donut hole Pie Chart.

To create the donut hole:

School Outcomes @ Exit

This visualization uses a Sunburst diagram to display related School outcome elements. 

Fields

• Custom Dimensions
  • Positive School Outcome - Evaluates whether the response to School Status (R5.1) is positive

• • School Status - Displays School Status details and combines Unknown responses

• Enrollments, Count

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Active in Project: Is equal to No
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit
• Programs, Project Type Code:
  • Emergency Shelter
  • Transitional Housing
  • Safe Haven
  • PH - Housing only
  • Homeless Prevention
  • PH - Rapid Re-Housing
• Custom Filter

Visualization

The Sunburst diagram is a fairly new offering in Looker. For this tile, the data table is arranged as:

The resulting Sunburst is as follows:

Floating the cursor over a section will display as:

The above shows a Positive School Outcome with 6 Graduating from high school

Last Grade Completed

This tile is a more traditional bar chart.

Fields

• Custom Dimension

• Enrollments, Count

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Active in Project: Is equal to No
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit
• Programs, Project Type Code:
  • Emergency Shelter
  • Transitional Housing
  • Safe Haven
  • PH - Housing only
  • Homeless Prevention
  • PH - Rapid Re-Housing
• Custom Filter

Visualization

This is a basic bar chart diagram.

Employment Outcomes @ Exit

This visualization uses a Sunburst diagram to display related Employment outcome elements. 

Fields

• Custom Dimensions
  • Employed

• Employment Situation - This dimension combines Employment Type and Reason Not Employed, depending on the response to Employed

• Enrollments, Count

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Active in Project: Is equal to No
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit
• Programs, Project Type Code:
  • Emergency Shelter
  • Transitional Housing
  • Safe Haven
  • PH - Housing only
  • Homeless Prevention
  • PH - Rapid Re-Housing
• Custom Filter

Visualization

This tile also uses a Sunburst diagram. The data should be laid out as shown below:

Family Critical Issues

Using the responses to the Family Critical Issues questions, this tile displays how many youths families have these risk factors.

Fields

Fields

• Custom Measures
  • Alcohol or Other Drug Abuse

• • • Under the Enrollments view, Count, click on the gear icon
    • Click on Filter Measure
    • Change the name to "Alcohol or Other Drug Abuse"Paste the following into the formula area: 

• • • Save the measure
  • Incarcerated Parent of Youth
    • Using the same method as above...

• • Insufficient Income

• • Mental Health Issues

• • Physical Disability

• • Unemployment

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit
• Programs, Project Type Code:
  • Emergency Shelter
  • Transitional Housing
  • Homeless Prevention
• Custom Filter

Visualization

This tile uses a simple bar chart for the visualization.

Formerly a Ward of Child Welfare/Foster Care

Fields

• Custom Dimensions
  • Former Ward
    
    

• • Number of Years in Foster Care

• Enrollments, Count

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit
• Programs, Project Type Code:
  • Emergency Shelter
  • Transitional Housing
  • Homeless Prevention
• Custom Filter

Visualization

The data table for this Sunburst diagram is laid out as follows:

Formerly a Ward of Juvenile Justice System

Fields

• Custom Dimensions 
  • Juveline Justice: Former Ward

• • Number of Years in Foster Care
    • if(${entry_screen.rhy_former_justice}="Yes", "Juvenile Justice",
      if(${entry_screen.rhy_former_justice}= "No", "No","Unknown"))
• Enrollments, Count

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit
• Programs, Project Type Code:
  • Emergency Shelter
  • Transitional Housing
  • Homeless Prevention
• Custom Filter

Visualization

The data table for this Sunburst diagram is laid out as follows:

Commercial Sexual Exploitation/Sex Trafficking

This visualization uses combined dimensions from the Sexual Exploitation data elements (R15). 

Fields

• Custom Dimensions - Create these dimensions in this order

1.Exchange for Sex, Ever Received Anything (R15.1)
2.Exchange for Sex in the Last Three Months (R15.1A)

3.Exchange for Sex, Number of Times (R15.1B)

4.Exchange for Sex Detail (Combines R15.1A and R15.1B)

5.Made/Persuaded/Forced (R15.1C)

6.Made/Persuaded/Forced In Last Three Months (R15.1D)

7. Made/Persuaded Detail (Combines R15.1C and R15.1D)

• Enrollments, Count

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Active in Project: Is equal to No
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit
• Programs, Project Type Code:
  • Emergency Shelter
  • Transitional Housing
  • Homeless Prevention
  • Street Outreach
• Custom Filter

Visualization

Remove the following fields from the data table:

• Exchange for Sex in the Last Three Months
• Exchange for Sex, Number of Times
• Made/Persuaded/Forced
• Made/Persuaded/Forced In Last Three Months

The remaining fields should be in this order for the Sunburst diagram:

Labor Exploitation/Trafficking

This visualization uses combined dimensions from the Labor Exploitation data elements (R16). 

Fields

• Custom Dimensions:

1. Labor Exploitation/Trafficking (R16.1)

2. Forced/Pressured to Continue (R16.1A)

3. Exploited in the Last Three Months (R16.1B)

4. Labor Exploitation Detail

• Enrollments, Count

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Active in Project: Is equal to No
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit
• Programs, Project Type Code:
  • Emergency Shelter
  • Transitional Housing
  • Homeless Prevention
  • Street Outreach
• Custom Filter

Visualization

Remove the following fields from the data table:

• Exploited in the Last Three Months
• Forced/Pressured to Continue

The remaining fields should be in this order for the Sunburst diagram:

Project Start After Project Exit

This tile returns a count of the number of enrollments that have a Project Start Date greater than the Project Exit date. This problem can occur if a user incorrectly updates the Start Date after the Project Exit has been created. It can also occur during a Data Integration.

Model: HMIS Performance

Fields

• Custom Measure - refer to Family Critical Issues for details on creating custom measures
  • Project Start AFTER Project Exit

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit

Visualization

Single Value, likely the default visualization.

DoB AFTER Project Start

This problem usually occurs when there is a birth in the family or when the wrong year is used for the client's date of birth. (for example, the current year)

Fields

• Custom Measure
  • Date of Birth After Project Start

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit

Visualization

Single Value, likely the default visualization.

Move-in Date AFTER Project Exit

Fields

• Custom Measure
  • Move-in Date After Project Start
  • Under the Enrollments view, Count, create a custom Filter Measure (see above image)
  • Paste the following into the formula area 

• • Save the measure

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Active in Project: Is equal to No
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit
• Entry Screen, Head of Household (Yes / No) is Yes

Visualization

Single Value, likely the default visualization.

Move-in Date Before Project Exit

Fields

• Custom Measure
  • Move-in Date Before Project Start
  • Under the Enrollments view, Count, create a custom Filter Measure (see above image)
  • Paste the following into the formula area

• Save the measure

Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the past 12 complete months
• Enrollments, Active in Project: Is equal to No
• Enrollments, Is Las Enrollment per Program (Yes/No): Is Yes
• Program Funding Sources, Funding Source: See the RHY funding sources used in Safe & Appropriate Exit
• Entry Screen, Head of Household (Yes / No) is Yes

Visualization

Single Value, likely the default visualization.

Dashboard Filters

• Enrollments, Reporting Period Filter: Is in the Last 12 complete months
• Programs, Program Name: Is any value