| dc.description.abstract | As communities report significant decreases in Veteran homelessness from 2010 – 2015,
mitigation efforts have turned from reactive care and rehabilitation to prevention. With significant
populations of contemporary Veterans transitioning to civilian life from operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan, there is an opportunity to adapt transition and integration processes to preclude
the risk of homelessness.
This project attempts to curate priority intelligence requirements (PIR) aimed at identifying
Veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn
(OEF/OIF/OND) who are at risk of experiencing incidences of homelessness after ending
service in the United States Army. Having developed effective PIR, this project attempts to
deliver an immediate decision support tool for commanders, transition supervisors, and VA
intake providers, as well as the framework to automate that information collection and risk
analysis in the future.
A decision support tool with five binary outputs (yes or no) was developed based on an existing
corroborated model of risk factors for homelessness developed by the National Center for
Homelessness Among Veterans. The tool easily represents individuals of higher risk of
homelessness to a screener, with no added time or data collection burden. Further, a freeware
script, compatible with all common data collection and storage systems, was developed to
provide a baseline for further digital management efforts. | en_US |
