Focusing Data on Populations in the System of Care

The Disparities Impact Statement (DIS) tool is used to achieve equity for racial and ethnic minorities, sexual and gender minorities, people with disabilities/special needs, underprivileged people, and rural populations. At the beginning of the HT grant, we projected counts in our DIS by taking county level proportions in the census data and weighting them by the county population sizes to reach an even target number of 100 clients per year. We continually identify and implement policy changes at organizational level to achieve the goal of serving these subpopulations and review the number served on a quarterly basis. Additionally, we focus our efforts on creating specific resource guides for these subpopulations (e.g., LGBTQ+ resource list). One of the challenges is that certain subpopulations are hard to keep a track of because of lack of metrics in the NOMs forms (e.g., living in poverty). A goal for OHTP is to implement this tool into a handbook guide and make it more interactive so that TAY can contribute new additions and feedback or insights on existing entries.