Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention of Greater Indpls

Chip oversees an enhancing opportunities in indianapolis grant in collaboration with community partners focused on expanding housing navigation, housing acquisition, and landlord engagment strategies to enhance housing choices, reduce the length of time people experience Homelessness, and foster stronger landlord partnerships in indianapolis.

Continuum of care (coc): chip's role in the continuum of care (coc) is to work to improve system coordination, develop policies and procedures to assist in evaluating performance and deliver consistency across programs. We provide technical assistance to the coc, review hud and local priorities and ensure they are implemented into the planning process. We work to update and finalize the plan to end Homelessness.

Chip servies as the homeless management information system lead for indianapolis. Hmis is a community-wide database that tracks client, program, and system-level data that is used to understand who experiences Homelessness, what services they access, and how the homeless response system is performing. Chip operates this system, trains users, monitors data quality, provides technical assistance, and reports system-level data to the department of housing and urban development.

Other program services include the following: temporary financial assistance through street reach; coordinated entry; point-in-time count; memorial service; homeless youth needs assessment and Prevention; handbook of help; community strategic planning; domestic violence assessment; day 1 families planning and subgrants; training and technical assistance; and program staff support.