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Data Elements: R14 RHY Service Connections
Data Element
R14 RHY Service Connections enable projects to report on the services that they either directly provided youth through their project or at their organization or which they facilitated being provided by another provider during the project stay for all heads of household and adults.
Response Category Descriptions:
- Community service/service learning (CSL): Activities that involve youth in helping others or the community.
- Criminal justice/legal services: Legal services or guidance provided through an attorney or an attorney-supervised paralegal.
- Education: Includes learning disability assessment, tutoring, GED preparation, local school enrollment, vocational education, etc.
- Employment and training services: Includes services related to helping young people obtain and retain employment, such as assessment, coaching, filling out applications, interviewing, practicing, and conducting job searches, referrals, and job maintenance skills.
- Health/medical care: Provision of general health care or surgical services by licensed medical practitioners.
- Home-based services: Includes any range of services offered at home, usually aimed at keeping a youth from running away or the family stabilized.
- Life skills training: Includes formal and informal coaching and training in communications skills, health promotion, conflict/anger management, assertiveness, goal setting, budgeting, life planning, nutrition, hygiene, etc.
- Parenting education for youth with children: Services designed to build improved parenting skills for RHY clients with children.
- Post-natal newborn care: Services and healthcare provided to the baby after birth, including wellness exams and immunizations.
- Post-natal care for client (person who gave birth): Services and healthcare provided to the mother after birth, including wellness exams and immunizations.
- Pre-natal care: Services and healthcare provided to expectant clients to ensure a healthy pregnancy, labor, and delivery.
- STD testing: Procedures to test for a range of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).
- Street-based Services: Services provided to youth on the street, including gateway services, assessment, harm reduction, crisis stabilization, and continuum service linkages.
- Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Any research-based youth treatment service aimed at stopping substance use disorders and related problems.
- Substance Use Disorder Ed/Prevention Services: Comprehensive assessment of an individual’s current or past involvement with alcohol and/or drugs and/or provision of treatment, including screening, aimed at stopping their substance use disorder.
Data Element Type
R14 RHY Service Connections is a RHY Program Specific Data Element and collection is required for Emergency Shelter - Entry Exit, Transitional Housing, Services Only, and Homelessness Prevention
Collection Point
At first service for Head of Household and Adults.
Why It Matters
Identify specific services youth have received which supports local system planning and understanding of who is experiencing homelessness.
Data Quality
How to correct: Enter on first service provided.