South Carolina Statewide Homeless Count 2011
Timeline for Data Collection and Report Production
November 2010
- Each CoC contact 3-5 agencies in rural areas to ID where homeless receive services
December 2010
- Prep agencies for HMIS extract
- Finalize list of “known” locations for unsheltered count
- Recruit qualified volunteers for data collection using survey forms
January 2011
- Local CoCs train data collection volunteers
- 6th-HMIS test extract
- 14th-HMIS test extract sent to ORS
- 21st-ORS reports to HMIS Coordinators on data quality
- HMIS coordinators work with local agencies to improve data quality for final extract for 27th
- 27th-30th- Unsheltered Data Collection
February 2011
- 1st—data entry managers meet electronically to discuss data entry protocol
- Local CoC review /clean up forms
- Local training on data entry
- Data entry by local CoCs
March 2011
- 1st--ALL DATA TO ORS FOR FINAL COMPILATION OF HMIS AND UNSHELTERED COUNT
- Data unduplicated and analyzed
April 2011
- 8th Preliminary distribution of data tables
- 20th Final Feedback to ORS
- 29th Final distribution of data tables
May 2011
