Vet Benchmark Training - Part 2 Survey

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* 1. The first major national campaign to end veterans homelessness began in 2009.

True

False

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* 2. Success in meeting Functional Zero and Federal Benchmark goals means having no homeless veterans in your community.

True

False

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* 3. Once a community reaches its Federal Benchmarks, it is easy to maintain them.

True

False

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* 4. Communities must have VASH vouchers to reach the Federal Benchmarks.

True

False

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* 5. Federal Benchmark 1 focuses on only chronically homeless veterans.

True

False

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* 6. Unsheltered veterans must be offered permanent housing at least once every 14 days to meet Federal Benchmarks.

True

False

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* 7. Veterans entering Service-Intensive Transitional Housing are exempted in the Benchmark 1 calculation since they have chosen to address a service need.

True

False

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* 8. Veterans accepting permanent housing but not yet housed are always counted against communities in Benchmark 1.

True

False

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* 9. GPD Bridge Housing is NOT Service-Intensive Transitional Housing.

True

False

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* 10. Benchmark 2 focuses on housing veterans rapidly within 30 days.

True

False

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* 11. Calculating the length of time to house veterans includes stays in GPD service-intensive transitional housing.

True

False

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* 12. Length until housing is calculated from the date of veteran identification to housing placement

True

False

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* 13. Benchmark 3 focuses on ensuring sufficient capacity to house more veterans than are newly entering the system.

True

False

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* 14. One of the overall goals of the Benchmark campaign is to reduce the use of VA funded service-intensive transitional housing programs.

True

False

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* 15. The calculation for Benchmark 4 (Veterans entering SITH during look back period) can end up as a negative number.

True

False

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* 16. It is important to record the date that homeless veterans are offered Permanent Housing.

True

False

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* 17. If unsheltered veterans continue to refuse a permanent housing offer, over a 90 day period there would be at least 7 offers.

True

False

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* 18. In a simple case, the length of days to house a veteran is the Permanent Housing acceptance date subtracted by the Veteran First Identified date.

True

False

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* 19. If no new veterans are identified in a 90 day period, there is no need to investigate if outreach services are actually being performed.

True

False

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* 20. If a community meets all 4 benchmarks, it means there are no more veterans experiencing long-term homelessness.

True

False

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* 21. Which homeless veterans must be offered Permanent Housing?

Chronically homeless

Honorably discharged

Dishonorably discharged

All of the above

Only A and B

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* 22. Which of the following is NOT true concerning Service-Intensive Transitional Housing (SITH)?

The GPD Clinical Treatment track is typically a SITH

The GPD Low Demand track is not typically a SITH

The number of veterans entering SITH should be significantly lower than the number of new veterans

Veterans need to identify a Service Need to enter a SITH

Only VA-funded program can be considered a SITH

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* 23. Which of the following are ways to "rig" the benchmarks?

Stop doing outreach to identify new veterans

Manipulate the date of housing offered

Steer chronics into SITH

Only run benchmarks once a year

All of the above

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* 24. If you are not meeting benchmarks, what might your community need?

More housing resources

Better coordination with the VA

More skilled outreach workers

Better understanding of benchmarks

All of the above

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* 25. Which are the following activities are in keeping with the Federal criteria to end veteran homelessness?

Helping a vet enter an emergency shelter

Getting a vet on a VASH wailist

Outreach weekly to a vet who wants to stay living in the park

Only B and C

All of the Above