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Council Member Ayala inquires about the crib pilot program for pregnant individuals at PATH intake
2:23:48
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Council Member Diana I. Ayala asks about the proposed crib pilot program, which aims to assess the effectiveness of different interventions for pregnant individuals at PATH intake. Commissioner Molly Wasow Park and Administrator Jocelyn Carter respond, explaining the program's structure, goals, and evaluation metrics.
- The pilot will randomly assign pregnant individuals to three groups: immediate City FHEPS, Pathways Home, or a control group.
- Key metrics for evaluation include shelter nights used and the number of babies born into shelter and homelessness.
- The ultimate goal is to have families avoid shelter and for babies to be born into permanent housing situations.
Diana I. Ayala
2:23:48
I appreciate that.
2:23:51
Had a question here regarding the crib pilot.
2:23:55
The city city's proposed a research program for the crib pilot that would randomly assign pregnant people at path intake to one of three groups.
2:24:06
Group number one would immediately receive the group that in group number, oh wait one, a group that receives immediate city thefts, two, a group that receives path pathways home, and three a control group who receives nothing.
2:24:21
While the rule hearing has not yet taken place, we would like to know more about the rule change for the crib pilot.
2:24:27
Will HRA release a report on the outcomes of this pilot?
2:24:30
What measuring factors will be used to indicate the outcomes?
Molly Wasow Park
2:24:34
Thank you.
2:24:35
I'm really excited about this pilot and always happy to have the opportunity to talk about it.
2:24:40
So you described it very well.
2:24:43
The rule changes were necessary to allow all of that typically.
2:24:48
There are certain eligibility requirements for city feps and for Pathway Home that we are bypassing for this pilot.
2:24:57
Given that we haven't launched, we haven't exactly gotten to the point of thinking about how we will roll out the results, but it's certainly something that we are looking to learn from and are happy to talk to the council about it as well.
2:25:08
The details that we are going to be looking, the metrics that we're looking at to evaluate success is both how many shelter nights used.
2:25:19
I think our hope is that those receiving the subsidy will ideally avoid shelter altogether but certainly exit faster if they aren't able to avoid altogether.
2:25:32
And then looking at the number of babies born into shelter and homelessness.
2:25:37
We have ideas for secondary metrics, but those are the two that are most important.
2:25:42
Administrator Carter, anything you want to add?
Jocelyn Carter
2:25:45
Yeah, I mean, thank you Commissioner.
2:25:46
I think for this one, the goal really is to really spend, have babies go in permanency, right?
2:25:53
So, our ultimate goal is to have families not being sheltered.
2:25:57
So, right, it is one of the things that we really want to see happen out of this this one year and hopefully we think this is what we would love to see happen and we'll see what the outcomes are going to be.