Crisis Indicator: Triage Tool for Homeless Adults in Crisis
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Description:
The triage tool, or crisis indicator, identifies homeless individuals in hospitals, clinics and jails who have continuing crises in their lives that create very high public costs.
Content:
The triage tool, or crisis indicator, identifies homeless individuals in hospitals, clinics and jails who have continuing crises in their lives that create very high public costs.
The most expensive ten percent of homeless individuals - the 10th cost decile - account for well over half of all public costs for homeless adults, and their costs decrease by 86 percent when they live in permanent supportive housing.
This tool equips gatekeeper institutions to identify individuals experiencing homelessness whose acute needs create the greatest public costs, and to request housing providers to give these individuals immediate access to the scarce supply of permanent supportive housing because of the public costs that will be avoided when they are housed.
The triage tool combines the predictive power of 27 pieces of information to produce highly accurate estimates of the likelihood that individuals are in the 10th decile. This includes demographic characteristics, medical diagnoses, and use of hospital and jail facilities. The redesigned tool is four times more accurate than the earlier screening tool released in 2010.
The triage tool is in Excel format and a working copy can be downloaded from the Economic Roundtable web site, www.economicrt.org, along with the Crisis Indicator report, which explains how the tool is used.
Type of Resource:
HRC Resource
Publication Date:
2011
Location:
Los Angeles, California