Through a multi-phased approach, Colorado BoS redesigned and rebuilt their entire Statewide Coordinated Entry System to be efficient, manageable, and scalable across 10 unique Balance of State regions.

Phase 1 sought to map and understand the infrastructure of CO BoS’s current Coordinated Entry design, taking the time to assess gaps and strengths from region to region in Colorado and understand the unique needs of Rural Homeless Response Systems.

Phase 2 worked to design a standard workflow, pilot the new workflow and build reports in Colorado’s HMIS to support this CE redesign.

Phase 3 took the new Coordinated Entry design and rolled out training to the remaining regions in Colorado BoS.

The new Coordinated Entry System uniquely supports the needs of the 10 regions throughout Colorado, including a By Name List (BNL) built to replace or supplement the BNL being used in some regions. A Built for Zero dashboard was created to allow Colorado to fully report the incredible work that is being done through the statewide effort to end homelessness. While the new workflow follows closely to many HUD compliant Coordinated Entry communities, Colorado was interested in supporting the work in unique ways such as the development of a custom built Case Conferencing Assessment to aid in more efficient Chronic, Veteran and Youth Case Conferencing meetings being held throughout the regions. The hard work is already materializing on Colorado’s part by being able to bring in more CoC Housing Vouchers into the community, a huge win! Redesigning any part of a homeless response system is a huge undertaking and not without bumps in the road. Through the bumps and adversity, Colorado is prepared to take on the statewide effort to make homelessness brief, rare and nonrecurring.