Housed Working and Healthy
The client
Housed Working and Healthy's (HWH) mission is to help people become self-sufficient. The HWH model is a partner based eco-system that co-locates housing, mental health services, workforce training and employment, along with a meal plan. This supportive structure and services helps people stabilize, develop a support network, become trained, gain experience, get a job, secure housing and ultimately become self-sufficient.
Two projects
HWH sought to create a set of community indicators that could be employed to assess the societal need for the HWH process of helping struggling individuals to become self-sufficient, with employment and housing. These indicators needed to be measurable based on available community data, which required exploration of available data sources. The ideal set of indicators would achieve the following:
- demonstrate the societal need for HWH;
- assess the potentially favorable financial impact of HWH on the City of Denver;
- enable comparisons between HWH and similar nonprofit organizations, so as to better articulate the HWH mission; and
- provide statistics to assist HWH in fundraising efforts.
After collecting three years of data on candidates for HWH programs, HWH sought to answer questions regarding the success of their students in employment, health, and self-sufficiency. The analysis included suggestions for modifying and expanding the data collection process and identification of factors related to student success.
Volunteers
- Dan Betcher
- Vinayaka Gude
- Shaifali Juneja
- Arooba Kamal
- Prajwal Narayanaswamy
- Katherine Obenschain
- Joel Ramos
- Andini Safitri
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