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Understanding Data Usage when Making High-Stakes Frontline Decisions in Homelessness Services
Teale W. Masrani, Geoffrey Messier, Amy Voida +2
Frontline staff of emergency shelters face challenges such as vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout. The technology they use is often not designed for their unique need…
Understanding Housing and Homelessness System Access by Linking Administrative Data
Geoffrey G. Messier, Sam Elliott, Dallas Seitz
This paper uses privacy preserving methods to link over 235,000 records in the housing and homelessness system of care (HHSC) of a major North American city. Several machine learni…
The Human Behind the Data: Reflections from an Ongoing Co-Design and Deployment of a Data-Navigation Interface for Front-Line Emergency Housing Shelter Staff
Teale W Masrani, Helen Ai He, Geoffrey Messier
On any night in Canada, at least 35,000 individuals experience homelessness. These individuals use emergency shelters to transition out of homelessness and into permanent housing.…
A Graph Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on Emergency Housing Shelter Access Patterns
Geoffrey G. Messier
This paper investigates how COVID-19 disrupted emergency housing shelter access patterns in Calgary, Canada and what aspects of these changes persist to the present day. This analy…
The Effect of Epidemiological Cohort Creation on the Machine Learning Prediction of Homelessness and Police Interaction Outcomes Using Administrative Health Care Data
Faezehsadat Shahidi, M. Ethan MacDonald, Dallas Seitz +1
Background: Mental illness can lead to adverse outcomes such as homelessness and police interaction and understanding of the events leading up to these adverse outcomes is importan…