Who is the most vulnerable to illness, mortality, and continued homelessness? Many communities are taking steps to identify people who experience chronic homelessness.

Some are going further, developing tools to prioritize homeless people who are most at risk. This collection of examples from a workshop at the 2008 National Conference on Ending Homelessness presented a new Vulnerability Index for assessiong who is most at-risk of mortality and other tools to identify vulnerability and help target permanent supportive housing.

Handouts at the workshop included:

• Handout: Street Outreach Survey by Becky Kanis (PDF | 64 KB | 3 pages)
• Handout: Vulnerability Index 101 by Becky Kanis (PDF | 12 KB | 2 pages)
• Post-Katrina Homeless Camps in New Orleans by Martha Kegel ( PPT | 1.23 MB | 24 pages)
• Vulnerability Assessment for Chronically Homeless Individuals by Bill Hobson (PPT | 1.99 MB | 10 pages)
• Vulnerability Index: Prioritizing Outreach and Housing Placement by Mortality Risk by Becky Kanis (PPT | 6.74 MB | 24 pages)