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Building an Innovative Toolkit to Combat Forced Displacement
Economic development can bring new opportunities, but it can also increase the risk of displacement, particularly for Black households. This report examines Invest STL's Rooted: Cultivating Black Wealth in Place pilot, an innovative effort to help Black residents of St. Louis’s West End and Visitation Park neighborhoods remain in their communities amid ongoing neighborhood change.
Denver Housing to Health Project Housing Stability and Jail Days Payment Outcomes
The Denver Housing to Health (H2H) program leverages pay for success financing and other resources to provide supportive housing to people experiencing homelessness who have frequent interactions with the criminal legal system and emergency health care services. As part of the pay for success contract, the City of Denver will repay investors if the project meets its housing stability goals. This brief details the housing stability payment outcomes for the first 14 project quarters.
Aligning Crisis Response with Community Needs
Cities across the United States are developing community responder models to better serve people in crisis. In these models, mental health practitioners and behavioral health clinicians respond to noncriminal emergencies in lieu of or in addition to police units. Denver operates two such programs—the Support Team Assisted Response (STAR) program and the Co-Responder Program—that offer distinct but complementary pathways for responding to behavioral health–related 9-1-1 calls.
Harnessing Health Care Systems to Enhance Supportive Housing
The Denver Housing to Health project provides supportive housing for people who are experiencing chronic homelessness, have frequent interactions with the criminal legal system, and have unmet health care needs. In this brief, we describe the program’s theory of change, the health care needs of people who were eligible for the program, and the unique role that Denver Health, a large safety net hospital and health care system, played as an implementation partner.
Denver Housing to Health Project Housing Stability Payment Outcomes
The Denver Housing to Health program leverages pay for success financing and other resources to provide supportive housing to people experiencing homelessness who have frequent interactions with the criminal legal system and emergency health care services. As part of the pay for success contract, the City of Denver will repay investors if the project meets its housing stability goals. This brief details the housing stability payment outcomes for the first 10 project quarters.
Evaluation of the Family Unification Program
The Family Unification Program (FUP) provides permanent housing vouchers to families involved in the child welfare system who are homeless or unstably housed. This study used a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design in six sites to evaluate the impact of FUP on the probability that children would be placed in foster care and the probability that children in foster care would be reunified with their families.
Long-Term Evaluation of the Urban Alliance High School Internship Program
Urban Alliance is a national nonprofit that partners with schools, employers, governments, and philanthropies to provide skills training, mentoring, and paid internships to high school students. Urban Alliance’s flagship program, the High School Internship Program, targets high school seniors who are at risk of disconnecting from economically self-sufficient pathways.
Unlocking Medicaid's Potential to Expand Supportive Housing
Homelessness is rapidly increasing in Colorado and across the country, which poses a serious challenge for both the housing and health care sectors. Supportive housing—an evidence-based model that combines permanent housing assistance with supportive services, such as intensive case management and connections to physical and behavioral health care—has consistently proven to end homelessness for people with the highest needs.
Health Care in a Homelessness-Jail Cycle: Lessons from the Denver Supportive Housing SIB Initiative
Denver’s expansion of supportive housing through the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative is beginning to pay off for the city, its homeless residents, and investors banking on social impact. This fact sheet highlights the status quo for health services in Denver for people experiencing cycles of homelessness and incarceration.
Health and Health Care While Experiencing a Cycle of Homelessness and Incarceration
In 2016, the City and County of Denver launched the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (Denver SIB) to shift resources from expensive emergency services to more permanent, affordable housing and supportive services. The initiative aimed to increase housing stability and decrease jail stays for people trapped in the homelessness-jail cycle.
Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative: Final Outcome Payments
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In February 2016, the City and County of Denver and eight private investors closed on the city’s first social impact bond, an $8.6 million investment to fund a supportive housing program for 250 of the city’s most frequent users of the criminal justice system. The city will make outcome payments over five years based on the initiative’s goals of housing stability and a decrease in days spent in jail by participants.
By Sarah Gillespie, Devlin Hanson, Alyse Oneto, Patrick Spauster Verified, Mary Cunningham Verified, Mike Pergamit
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Urban Institute
Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle through a Housing First Approach
Denver’s expansion of supportive housing through the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative is beginning to pay off for the city of Denver, its homeless residents, and a group of investors banking on social impact. This fact sheet highlights the final results from the five-year evaluation.
Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle with Housing First: Results from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative
The Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (Denver SIB), launched in 2016 by the City and County of Denver, aimed to increase housing stability and decrease jail stays among people who were experiencing chronic homelessness and had frequent interactions with the criminal justice and emergency health systems.
Improving Health Care through Housing First
Housing First is an approach to homelessness that recognizes housing is a platform for improved health and other positive outcomes. In 2016, the City and County of Denver launched the Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (Denver SIB), a supportive housing program designed to serve a chronically homeless population that frequently cycles in and out of jail. This working paper explores the health care outcomes of Denver’s Housing First approach to permanent supportive housing.
Costs and Offsets of Providing Supportive Housing to Break the Homelessness-Jail Cycle
In 2016, the City and County of Denver launched the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (Denver SIB) to shift resources from expensive emergency services to more permanent, affordable housing and supportive services that can be difficult to fund without up-front capital. The initiative aimed to increase housing stability and decrease jail stays for people trapped in the homelessness-jail cycle.
Maintaining Housing Stability: Interim Lessons from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative
In February 2016, the City and County of Denver and eight private investors closed on the city’s first social impact bond, an $8.6 million investment to fund a supportive housing program for 250 of the city’s most frequent users of the criminal justice system. The city will make outcome payments over five years based on the initiative’s goals of housing stability and a decrease in days spent in jail by participants.
Does Supportive Housing Keep Families Together?
In 2012, the Children's Bureau in the US Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families funded Partnerships to Demonstrate the Effectiveness of Supportive Housing for Families in the Child Welfare System, a five-year, $25 million demonstration that provided supportive housing to families in the child welfare system, in five sites.
Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle in Denver
An experiment in supportive housing is beginning to pay off for the city of Denver, its homeless residents, and a group of investors banking on social impact. This fact sheet highlights early results from the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative.
Engaging the Most Vulnerable in Supportive Housing
In February 2016, the City of Denver and eight private investors closed on the city’s first social impact bond (SIB), an $8.6 million investment to fund a supportive housing program for 250 of the city’s most frequent users of the criminal justice system. The city will make outcome payments over five years based on the initiative’s goals of housing stability and decreased jail days.
Pathways after High School: Evaluation of the Urban Alliance High School Internship Program
Senior year of high school can be a pivotal time in a young person’s life. For some, it is the last step on the path to college and work. For others, finding stable employment or attending university after high school is far from guaranteed. Urban Alliance, headquartered in Washington, DC, helps students at risk of becoming disconnected from work or school transition to higher education or employment after high school.
Practical Considerations for Pay for Success Evaluations
Evidence is at the core of the pay for success movement, which pushes government to rigorously evaluate programs and pay only for those that achieve positive outcomes. Evidence, however, is only as good as the evaluation that produces it. As such, evaluators are an integral part of any PFS project, from beginning to end. In these projects, the evaluator implements activities that assess program outcomes in order to determine success payments from government to investors.
Early Implementation of the Head Start Designation Renewal System: Volume I & II
The Head Start Designation Renewal System (DRS) is an accountability system to determine whether Head Start grantees are delivering high quality, comprehensive services and to implement a competitive grant making process in communities where they are not. This formative evaluation suggests that the DRS is meeting its goal of supporting quality improvement in by incentivizing grantees and applicants to engage in a range of quality improvement activities.
The State of Post-9/11 Veteran Families
More than 1 million post-9/11 veteran families live in the United States, accounting for more than 1 million veterans, 1 million spouses, and 2.1 million children. Another 1.9 million veterans are expected to exit the military over the next decade. To better facilitate the transition of veterans and their families to civilian life, we must understand the strengths they possess and the unique challenges they face.
Over half of children of immigrants are bilingual
Much of the research on children of immigrants—children under age 18 with a foreign-born parent—focuses on the risk factors and challenges faced by this population, and not the assets they possess. One of their biggest assets is their high rate of bilingualism. The recently updated Children of Immigrants data tool shows that 56 percent of children of immigrants are bilingual, meaning that they are both proficient in English and speak a language other than English at home.
Demographic Trends of Children of Immigrants
From 2006 to 2014, the number of children ages 0 to 17 with at least one immigrant parent grew by 2 million children, from 15.7 to 17.7 million. They account for nearly one-quarter of all children in the United States. This brief highlights national, state and metro level information, using data from the 2013 and 2014 American Community Surveys.
An Evaluation of the Impacts of Two “Rules of Thumb” for Credit Card Revolvers
Over half of all credit cardholders in the United States carried a balance from month to month in 2010, a financial habit that can get expensive quickly. Financial education programs can help people improve these behaviors, but they can be costly and results have been mixed. In this Urban Institute study, we found that simple rules of thumb about credit card use can be an effective and inexpensive way to help people make better financial decisions.
Mentoring may help young men of color achieve academic success
Mentoring may help young men of color achieve academic success Young men of color are falling behind in terms of academic success. They have lower college attendance rates than women or white men (34 percent for black and Hispanic men compared with 39 percent of black women, 42 percent of Hispanic women, and 38 percent of white men).
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