From: SSVF
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 3:51 PM
To: SSVF
Subject: SSVF Special Edition Program
Update: Community Planning Survey Due May 3rd
Attachments: SSVF Community Planning
Survey.pdf
Dear SSVF Grantees,
Thank you for all of your work
with community planning to end Veteran homelessness. We are excited to release
a nationwide community planning survey today, and we are asking for your
assistance. The purpose of the survey is to help us to better understand community
progress related to ending Veteran homelessness. The information gathered as a
part of this survey will help the VA—along with HUD and the U.S. Interagency
Council on Homelessness (USICH)—tailor training and technical assistance so
that it more effectively addresses local needs. We are asking you to coordinate
responses with CoCs, Veteran Work Groups, the local VA Medical Center homeless
program leadership, and other Community Partners. While SSVF grantees will
facilitate submissions, it is critical that they are a collective
response that accurately depicts community progress and needs. SSVF grantees
should not submit responses in isolation. Additionally, this is not an
evaluation. Instead, it is meant to be a supportive process; therefore, honest
and open responses are strongly encouraged. Survey submissions (1 per CoC) will
be due on or before Wednesday, May 3rd.
Survey Overview
The 10 topics covered in the
survey are:
·
Submission
Information and CoC Involvement
·
Leadership Team
·
Mayoral and Other
Executive Support
·
Summary of
Planning Efforts
·
Data Quality and
Coverage
·
Master/By Name
List
·
Current Number of
Veterans Experiencing Homelessness
·
Adoption of Best
Practices and Strategies
·
Federal Criteria,
Benchmarks, and Goals
·
Technical
Assistance Needs
Tools and Resources
We have prepared several tools
to assist you with this process:
1.
SSVF Special
Program Update
2.
PDF Version of
the Survey Questions (attached-for reference only)
3.
An Instructional
Video Link https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/227121001062211841
We strongly recommend
viewing the brief, instructional video as your first step. The video acts as a virtual Companion Guide to the
survey and covers the survey purpose, expectations, and a detailed
demonstration of the survey in Survey Monkey. The video can also be a good
reference tool when a community is preparing survey responses if additional
clarification is needed.
Submissions
Similar to the previous survey,
we can only accept one survey submission per CoC. As a result, grantees
must coordinate if they have shared geography with other grantees to determine
who will submit the survey for each CoC. We understand that some geographic
areas such as Balances of State are expansive. There are areas in the survey
where additional comments can be added based on local needs.
Please do not access the
survey link below unless you are designated to complete the survey and are
ready to submit your answers. (Clicking
on the link prematurely will result in a blank submission. To prepare
responses, please refer to the PDF Version of the Survey Questions and the
video.)
Survey Link
The survey can be accessed using the following link: SSVF Community Planning Survey
Please remember to select “Done”
to submit the response. Please note that we recommend preparing responses in
advance and then entering them into Survey Monkey in one sitting to avoid time
outs with the tool. Additionally, there is no feature to save a partially
completed survey and return later. Lastly, an automatic copy of the
response will not be provided upon submission; therefore, it is important to
keep notes on survey responses. Once all surveys are submitted, we will be able
to post pdfs of the submissions to the SSVF website.
Survey Deadline: All survey responses must be submitted no later than Wednesday, May 3, 2017.
Questions?
Questions
related to the survey can be sent to Adrienne at adrienne.nashmelendez@va.gov. In the subject of the email, please
include Community Planning Survey and the CoC number. Please cc
your Regional Coordinator.