​Continuum of Care Data Dashboards

Data is critical in understanding the experience of homelessness in our community. Collecting information regarding the needs and successes of persons experiencing homelessness in Indianapolis is essential to identifying and implementing strategies to ensure homelessness is rare, brief and nonrecurring. The Indy CoC utilizes dashboards to examine this crucial information. The information in these dashboards is sourced from the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) and the Point-in-Time (PIT) Count. 

If you have questions about the system as a whole,  please email info@chipindy.org. 

For questions about specific dashboards, please email Danielle Bagg Wireman.

How to access and use the dashboard

​Click an icon below to jump directly to that dashboard’s page. Each dashboard contains a lot of information! Hover your mouse over the data points to see information pop-ups and learn more about the data powering each chart. You can also view the dashboards using different filters that will impact what information is highlighted in the dashboard’s presentation.

The System Indicators dashboard displays all persons throughout 2020 that have experienced homelessness or received services in our system; it shows how homelessness changes over time, including inflow and outflow from the Coordinated Entry System (CES) which is the process in which our community identifies, assesses, and matches individuals to resources need to resolve homelessness.

​The Point-in-Time Count (PIT) is a snapshot of people who are living unsheltered or in emergency shelter, transitional housing, or safe havens on a single night in Indianapolis. On a night in the last week of January, the CoC conducts a count of all persons experiencing homelessness in Marion County. The information gathered during the PIT Count helps us better understand the scope of who is experiencing homelessness in our community.

In order to better understand and identify the needs of our system in reducing homelessness, the system performance dashboard helps our community examine our progress in making homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring.

​The Indianapolis CoC recognized disparities in the homelessness rates of different populations as well as how different groups access services; however, it has at times been unclear where these inequities are occurring within the system and how to address them. To help close this gap, the CoC is publishing this dashboard to share information on successes and opportunities across our homelessness crisis response system.