What are the HUD System Performance Measures?
A key aspect of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended by the HEARTH Act, is a focus on viewing the local homeless response as a coordinated system of homeless assistance options as opposed to independently operating programs and funding sources. Because of this change, Continuums of Care (CoCs) are now required to measure their performance as a coordinated system. The System Performance Measures (SPM) allows CoCs to regularly measure their progress in meeting the needs of people experiencing homelessness in their community and to report this progress to HUD. The SPM is pulled from the local Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) and submitted to HUD annually by CoCs around the country. The reporting period for all SPM reports is October 1st to September 30th. With the exception of Metric 3.1 which includes data from the Unsheltered Point-In-Time count, all data comes from West Virginia Balance of State’s HMIS.
HUD System Performance Measures:
The WV Balance of State CoC submits measures one through five and seven to HUD annually. Measure 6 has yet to be applicable to any CoC.
What are CoC Local Benchmarks?
It is the role of the CoC Lead Agency (WVCEH) for the WV Balance of State to review annual SPMs and through data analysis of ongoing local trends, in addition to program participant, provider and community input to develop local benchmarks for each of these criteria that reflect goals for project performance in the CoC. These measures are utilized as a guide to set performance targets for evaluating local homeless programs, and HUD-funded agencies are evaluated on these measures during annual monitoring. SPMs are utilized in the project rating and ranking process during the CoC funding competition and inform resource allocation and funding decisions in the CoC.
