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The Anchor Community Initiative Resource Hub is a collection of resources, tools and case studies to help you use data to end youth and young adult homelessness in your community.

ACI Quality Demographic Data Standard

What is quality demographic data?

Goal: Sexual orientation and gender identity data is collected system wide.

Solution: All providers are collecting sexual orientation and gender identity data and are compelled to do so by their CoC. *rationale for whole system*

Goal: <10% of sexual orientation and gender identity data is unknown (based on 3 month rolling average.)

Solution: All intakes to the BNL involve SOGI data collection.

Goal: <10% of race and ethnicity data is unknown (based on 3 month rolling average.)

Solution: All intakes to the BNL involve race and ethnicity data collection.

Goal: Service providers are collecting SOGI data in an empowering, trauma informed and culturally competent manner.

Solution: Communities describe how their data collection processes are empowering, trauma informed and culturally competent. This is approved by young people with lived experience in the community, especially QTBIPOC eg. a YAB

Stretch Goal: Communities are collecting more expansive sexual orientation and gender identity data system wide.

Solution: HMIS categories go beyond HUD categories to include more representative and affirming identities.

CROSS SYSTEM COORDINATION: SCHOOLS

ACI Fall 2021 Learning Session