Data Briefs and Reports
Explore briefs and reports by topic
DCHS’ Performance Measurement and Evaluation (PME) Unit occasionally packages data insights and evaluation findings for the public. Explore recent PME-authored data-focused briefs, reports, and presentations by division or topic below. Click on the plus or minus symbol next to a division or workgroup to expand or collapse visible options.
November 2019: Outpatient Treatment on Demand Interim Evaluation
An evaluation of the effectiveness of the Outpatient Treatment on Demand half way through the planned three year program. Includes process measures (qual and quant) and client outcome measures (quant)
Carolina Johnson, Ph.D.
November 2020: Vital Program Outcomes, 2020
This 2-page brief provides an overview of the services, participants served, and preliminary results of the Vital Program. The Vital Program aims to improve the lives of King County's most vulnerable individuals by shifting away from a criminal-legal response to homelessness and behavioral health crises to a coordinated health and human services response.
Tyler Corwin, MA (PME) and Shanna Clinton (BHRD)
April 2022: Integrating Data to Better Understand Fatal Overdoses and Service System Engagement
Report shows which systems people access before a fatal overdose and can inform efforts to increase access to substance use disorder services that could reduce future deaths
Carolina Johnson, Ph.D.
October 2020: Best Starts for Kids Assessment Report
In 2020, Best Starts completed an assessment of program implementation and outcomes since the inception of the levy. This report includes: an assessment of how Best Starts levy proceeds are being allocated, the status of strategy and program implementation, design or policy changes, challenges and outcomes; an analysis of the context and impact of the Best Starts levy–funded goals, strategies, and programs; and an analysis of how Best Starts investments have impacted the advancement of equity and social justice.
March 2021: Themes from 2020 Community Conversations
Over the course of October and November 2020, Best Starts for Kids staff and community partners co-hosted a series of thirteen community conversations across a broad range of geographic and cultural communities in King County to listen and learn from Best Starts Champions, partners, and providers. This Community Conversations report shares back what we heard from communities across King County on what went well and what was challenging in the first levy, and what improvements should be considered.
June 2022: Advancing Equity through Evidence-Building, Data Integration, and Research Partnerships: A Local Government’s View from The Other Washington
Presentation to the Data Foundation
Christina McHugh, MPP, MA | Claire Evans | Truong Huang | Maria Jimenez-Zepeda | David Phillips
May 2022: Hotels as Noncongregate Emergency Shelters: An Analysis of Investments in Hotels as Emergency Shelter in King County, Washington During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study analyzes the COVID-19 homelessness response in King County, Washington, in which people were moved out of high-density emergency shelters into hotel rooms.
Gregg Colburn | Rachel Fyall | Christina McHugh, MPP, MA | Pear Moraras, MPH | Victoria Ewing, MPA | Samantha Thompson | Taquesha Dean | Sarah Argodale, MPA
June 2021: Coordinated Entry for All - 2020 Annual Evaluation
An evaluation covering regional Coordinated Entry for All’s activities undertaken throughout 2020. Lessons from this evaluation will be used to continuously improve the coordinated entry system in King County.
Victoria Ewing, MPA | Emily Reimal, MA
April 2021: Impacts of COVID-19 on the King County Homeless Response System: Using data to inform current and future housing strategies.
National Human Services Data Consortium 2021 Spring Conference presentation. In this session, we discuss a recent analysis using our inflow-outflow methodology and dashboards to understand the homeless response system impacts of COVID-19. Findings suggest a complex relationship between how the pandemic changed system inflow, outflow, lengths of stays, bed capacity, and disproportionality in how these effects were felt by communities of color, older individuals, and adults without children.
Christina McHugh, MPP, MA | Pear Moraras, MPH
April 2021: Impact of Hotels as Non-Congregate Emergency Shelters.
National Human Services Data Consortium 2021 Spring Conference presentation. A team of researchers from the University of Washington and the King County Department of Community and Human Services used a mixed methods approach to analyze the effects and outcomes on individuals who were moved from shelters to non-congregate hotel settings during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gregg Colburn | Rachel Fyall | Christina McHugh, MPP, MA
March 2021: Data Review: Impacts of COVID-19 on the King County Response System
Understanding the primary drivers of the decline in the number of households experiencing homelessness and receiving services in the homeless response system following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in King County.
Pear Moraras, MPH | Christina McHugh, MPP, MA | Victoria Ewing, MPA | Sarah Argodale, MPA
December 2021: Integrating Data to Better Measure Homelessness
Report shows which systems people access before a fatal overdose and can inform efforts to increase access to substance use disorder services that could reduce future deaths
Carolina Johnson, Ph.D. | Christina McHugh, MPP, MA | Emily Reimal, MA
September 2020: Coordinated Entry for All - 2019 Annual Evaluation
An evaluation covering regional Coordinated Entry for All’s activities undertaken throughout 2019. Lessons from this evaluation will be used to continuously improve the services that they offer to the community.
Victoria Ewing, MPA | Christina McHugh, MPP, MA
November 2020: Impact of Hotels as Non-Congregate Emergency Shelters
An analysis of investments in hotels as emergency shelter in King County during the COVID-19 pandemic.
King County DCHS Performance Measurement and Evaluation (PME) Unit and The University of Washington
King County’s Eviction Prevention & Rental Assistance Program 2020 DATA REVIEW
Overview of 2020 EPRAP program
King County Performance Measurement and Evaluation Unit
