论文标题
一种了解紧急庇护所通道模式的简单方法
A Simpler Method for Understanding Emergency Shelter Access Patterns
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论文摘要
简化的访问指标（SAM）是一种将紧急庇护所通道模式表征为避难所客户脆弱性的新方法。 SAM的目的是为住房经营者提供一种直观的方式，以了解使用电子表格操作可以由非技术人员实施的访问模式。来自大型北美庇护所的客户数据将用于证明SAM与传统过渡，情节和慢性客户群体分析产生相似的结果。由于SAM所需的数据比集群分析要少，因此它还能够生成一个实时图片，说明庇护所访问模式如何受到外部因素的影响。使用SAM从九年的住所客户数据产生的时间表展示了住房首次编程的影响以及Covid-19-19锁定对人们如何进入庇护所的影响。最后，SAM允许住所员工超越分配过渡，情节和慢性标签，而是直接将SAM的“软”输出作为衡量脆弱性的衡量。
The Simplified Access Metric (SAM) is a new approach for characterizing emergency shelter access patterns as a measure of shelter client vulnerability. The goal of SAM is to provide shelter operators with an intuitive way to understand access patterns that can be implemented by non-technical staff using spreadsheet operations. Client data from a large North American shelter will be used to demonstrate that SAM produces similar results to traditional transitional, episodic and chronic client cluster analysis. Since SAM requires less data than cluster analysis, it is also able to generate a real time picture of how shelter access patterns are affected by external factors. Timelines generated from nine years of shelter client data using SAM demonstrate the impact of Housing First programming and the COVID-19 lockdown on how people access shelter. Finally, SAM allows shelter staff to move beyond assigning transitional, episodic and chronic labels and instead use the "soft" output of SAM directly as a measure of vulnerability.
