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Participating Communities

The system is a comprehensive approach to addressing youth homelessness in Ohio. It includes a range of services and programs that are designed to help youth who are experiencing homelessness find stable housing and support.

Ohio CoCs Map

Participating CoCs

  • OH-506

    Urban

    Akron

    Summit County
  • OH-507

    Rural

    Balance of State

    Most of Ohio
  • OH-508

    Urban

    Canton

    Stark County
  • OH-502

    Cleveland

  • OH-505

    Urban

    Dayton

    Montgomery County
  • OH-501

    Urban

    Toledo

    Lucas County

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At a Glance

OH-506

Urban

Akron / Summit County

The Akron/Barberton CoC (OH-506) coordinates the youth homelessness response for urban Summit County.

413

sq mi area

538K

people in general population

62.8K

people in youth population (15-24)

MAP
Map of Akron
568
youth served
Distinct people served in a qualifying youth-headed household during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
1,330
youth enrollments
Total youth enrollments reported during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
79 days
Average time homeless for young adults
Source: FY2024 Stella Map
60 days
Average time homeless for parenting youth
Source: FY2024 Stella Map

Key Terms (click to expand or collapse)

Projects & Enrollments
Youth-only projects
Projects that served only youth households.
Other projects serving youth
Projects that served youth households, but not exclusively.
No qualifying youth households
Projects with no qualifying youth-headed household enrollments recorded.
Projects
Distinct HMIS-funded programs active during the reporting year.
Enrollments
Distinct youth-household enrollments recorded during the reporting year.
Youth
People ages 15–24, consistent with the sitewide definition of "Young Adult."
Units and Beds
Units
A physical housing or shelter placement — one per household, regardless of household size.
Beds
Capacity for individual people. A family's unit can include several beds, so beds and units count different things and are not interchangeable.
Youth set-aside beds
Beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count when a CoC has that figure available.
Community Context

How youth enter crisis

How youth enter crisis or homelessness in this community

Placeholder — this section will describe the typical pathways that lead a young person into a housing crisis in this community.

About this section

Lived experience

A story from this community is coming soon

This space is reserved for a firsthand account from a young person who experienced the homelessness response system in this community.

About the Author

Placeholder — Awaiting a shared story

System Pathways

| Akron / Summit County

Stella Map FY24

Stella System Mapping (FY24)

HUD’s Stella Performance (Stella P) visualizes how people move through a local homelessness response system, including how long they remain unhoused, where they exit, and whether they return to homelessness. The map below focuses specifically on youth moving through the system, helping highlight pathways, outcomes, and potential system bottlenecks.

These figures come from Stella P's own system-flow pathway boxes — a different source and categorization than the HMIS project-type data in the "Projects & Enrollments" section below, so the two won't always match, even where category names overlap.
Akron / Summit County
Youth pathways to exit for Akron / Summit County: households flowing from population type to program type to exit destination
From To Households
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Emergency Shelter 99
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Rapid Rehousing 58
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Permanent Supportive Housing 9
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Transitional Housing 49
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Other Pathway Combinations 1
Parenting Youth Households Emergency Shelter 27
Parenting Youth Households Rapid Rehousing 10
Parenting Youth Households Permanent Supportive Housing 2
Parenting Youth Households Transitional Housing 1
Child-Only Households Emergency Shelter 107
Child-Only Households Transitional Housing 10
Emergency Shelter Exited to Permanent Housing 84
Emergency Shelter Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 90
Rapid Rehousing Exited to Permanent Housing 35
Rapid Rehousing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 6
Permanent Supportive Housing Exited to Permanent Housing 8
Permanent Supportive Housing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 1
Transitional Housing Exited to Permanent Housing 12
Transitional Housing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 25
Key Takeaways
Crisis Response

How many young people entered emergency shelter, and what happened after.

Very few unaccompanied youth exit shelter directly to a permanent destination — most successful exits happen further downstream.

Transitional Housing

How many young people used transitional housing as a stepping stone toward stability.

Average stays run long across both the unaccompanied-youth and child-only populations.

Rapid Re-Housing

How many young people got help paying rent to move into their own place quickly.

Strong performance — the large majority of enrolled households exit to permanent destinations.

Permanent Supportive Housing

How many young people got long-term housing paired with ongoing support services.

Performs comparably well to rapid re-housing here, though volume is small.

About this data

Source: Stella P Youth System Maps, Select Ohio CoCs, FY2024 (Abt Associates), "(OH-506) Akron, Barberton/Summit County CoC" tab, all three population views (AO 18-24 year old / AC Parenting Youth / Child Only) combined into one diagram.

First-stage values are the household (HH) counts shown entering each project type box on the Stella P map (i.e. "served in Homeless System" split by pathway). Second-stage values are derived: "Exited to Permanent Housing" = the numerator of each project type's green "X of Y exiting HH" exit-rate label; "Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown" = Y minus that numerator (households whose enrollment ended during the period without reaching a permanent destination).

NOTE: the exit-rate denominator (Y) is a distinct, Stella-P-defined cohort of households who exited that project type during FY2024 — it is NOT the same as the entry-stage HH count in the first link, so the two stages will not balance numerically; this mirrors how Stella P itself presents the data and is not a data-quality issue.

Pathways/segments with 0 HH are omitted rather than shown as zero-value links. Not yet reviewed/confirmed by Danielle (COHHIO).

System Utilization

| Akron / Summit County

HMIS 2025

Projects & Enrollments

See which project types served at least one youth-headed household, which were dedicated exclusively to youth, and how many active enrollments they reported.

These figures come from HMIS project-type records — a different source and categorization than the Stella P system-flow diagram above, so the two won't always match, even where category names overlap.

Youth reach across all projects

87 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Youth-only projects by group

12 projects total

Access, Prevention, and Diversion

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Permanent Housing

Enrollments per person, 2025

Of 568 people in a qualifying youth-headed household, how many distinct enrollments did each person contribute during the year?

1 enrollment
20%
of all enrollments · 48% of people (271)
2 enrollments
25%
of all enrollments · 29% of people (166)
3+ enrollments
55%
of all enrollments · 23% of people (131)
Pathway Data

Access, Prevention, and Diversion

Access, Prevention, and Diversion project mix

15 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Coordinated Entry 0 0 0 0
Street Outreach 0 5 0 370
Homelessness Prevention 0 6 2 44
Day Shelter 0 0 0 0
Services Only 1 0 1 9
Other 0 0 0 0
Total 1 11 3 423

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing project mix

21 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Emergency Shelter – Entry/Exit 1 7 0 599
Emergency Shelter – Night-by-Night 0 1 0 60
Safe Haven 0 0 2 0
Transitional Housing 4 5 1 70
Total 5 13 3 729

Permanent Housing

Permanent Housing project mix

51 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Rapid Re-Housing 6 12 8 140
Permanent Supportive Housing 0 12 13 38
Housing Only 0 0 0 0
Housing with Services 0 0 0 0
Total 6 24 21 178
About this data

Here's how to read this: the project mix bar for each section divides up the total number of projects shown beside it, not the number of enrollments. The figures below the bar (youth-only, other projects which serve youth, and no qualifying youth households) always add up to that total. The table listed below gives the names of these projects. The figure for youth enrollments is a separate one that appears alongside the total, and it shows the recorded activity rather than the number of beds, vacancies, housing placements, or the number of unique young people.

Source: Copy of yhsi_OH-506_20260827_151253.xlsx (OH-506 Project Type Analysis tab).

Figures reflect project-level HMIS activity in 2025, the final year of the configured reporting period, not a running total across the full period.

"Total Projects" counts distinct projects of each HMIS project type with at least one enrollment active at any point during 2025, including project types with zero activity in the final reporting year.

"Served Youth" counts distinct projects of that type that recorded at least one qualifying youth-headed household during 2025. "Youth-Only" counts distinct projects where every household served was a qualifying youth-headed household.

"Active Enrollments" counts distinct EnrollmentID values active during 2025 for people who were part of a qualifying youth-headed household — all active household members are counted, not just the head of household. This is a measure of recorded activity, not beds, vacancies, or housing placements.

Housing & Capacity

Housing & Capacity | Akron / Summit County

HMIS 2025

Units and Beds in HMIS

Youth set-aside beds

1,822 beds total

Youth set-aside

Other beds

Youth set-aside beds by pathway stage

63 beds total

Crisis response

Transitional housing

Permanent housing

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
ES Entry/Exit 211 293 6
ES Night-by-Night 162 99 0
Safe Haven 21 21 0
Total 394 413 6

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Transitional Housing 89 185 18
Total 89 185 18

Permanent Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Permanent Supportive Housing 651 871 12
PH Housing Only 0 0 0
PH Housing with Services 0 0 0
Rapid Re-Housing 165 255 27
Total 816 1,126 39
About this data

For each date, inventory is summed across all active inventory records in the project type. Beds count capacity for individual clients; units count capacity for households — equal to beds for projects serving single clients, and less than beds for projects serving families, since a household can occupy more than one bed within a unit. For each reporting year, the value shown is the highest combined daily total reached within that year (Housing Inventory Count method). Bars within a card are scaled to that card's own peak year for the selected metric, so capacity can be compared across years within a project type but not directly across project types. Source: Copy of yhsi_OH-506_20260827_151253.xlsx (OH-506 Beds Inventory / OH-506 Units Inventory tabs).

Youth set-aside bed and unit figures reflect inventory capacity for the year, not real-time vacancy.

The stage-breakdown chart's percentages measure each pathway stage's share of 63 total youth set-aside beds, not of the CoC's overall bed inventory — 63 of 1,822 total beds across every project type in HMIS (3%) are youth set-aside.

The "Beds" column in the tables below shows year-round capacity only for shelter-type project types whose capacity flexes with demand (Emergency Shelter, Safe Haven) — it excludes seasonal and overflow beds, which are additional capacity added in response to demand rather than a fixed baseline. ES Entry/Exit: 35 seasonal/overflow beds not shown in its table row. ES Night-by-Night: 63 seasonal/overflow beds not shown in its table row.

"Youth set-aside beds" counts beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count. A "—" instead of a number means this CoC hasn't reported a count for that project type/stage yet, not that the count is confirmed to be zero.

Community Planning & Feedback

Community Planning & Feedback | Akron / Summit County

YHSI Working Groups

Community-Identified Priorities

During system planning, Akron held a brainstorming session and documented what people said they wanted to see change. This section lists those items, grouped by the type of change requested.

Possible New or Expanded Types of Housing

  • Increased youth-dedicated Emergency Shelter (waitlist)
  • Youth-dedicated non-gendered shelter
  • Increased funding for medium/long-term housing
  • LGBTQ-specific Transitional Housing
  • LGBTQ-specific Rapid Re-Housing
  • All-gender Transitional Housing
  • Youth-dedicated Permanent Supportive Housing

Possible New or Expanded Services

  • Youth-dedicated drop-in with 24-hour assessors, living wage
  • Peer navigators
  • Extended hotline hours with immediate support
  • Outreach to connect to navigation services
  • School-based navigators (Educational Service Center partnership)

Essential Program Elements

  • Increased staff training in all programs

Specific Services

  • Ohio Department of Health increased flexibility/sustainability
  • More Family Unification Program (FUP) and Family Unification Program–Youth (FYI) voucher staff for accessibility
About this data

Source: Akron System Map - Program Models Handout; "Key Takeaways: Essential Elements from YHSI Planning & Brainstorming Session(s)."

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At a Glance

OH-507

Rural

Balance of State

The Balance of State CoC (OH-507) is Ohio's only rural Continuum of Care, coordinating youth homelessness response across dozens of counties outside the state's major cities.

~37,263

sq mi area

6.3M

people in general population

820K

people in youth population (15-24)

MAP
Map of Balance of State
3,035
youth served
Distinct people served in a qualifying youth-headed household during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
5,719
youth enrollments
Total youth enrollments reported during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
67 days
Average time homeless for young adults
Source: FY2024 Stella Map
N/A
Average time homeless for parenting youth
Source: FY2024 Stella Map

Key Terms (click to expand or collapse)

Projects & Enrollments
Youth-only projects
Projects that served only youth households.
Other projects serving youth
Projects that served youth households, but not exclusively.
No qualifying youth households
Projects with no qualifying youth-headed household enrollments recorded.
Projects
Distinct HMIS-funded programs active during the reporting year.
Enrollments
Distinct youth-household enrollments recorded during the reporting year.
Youth
People ages 15–24, consistent with the sitewide definition of "Young Adult."
Units and Beds
Units
A physical housing or shelter placement — one per household, regardless of household size.
Beds
Capacity for individual people. A family's unit can include several beds, so beds and units count different things and are not interchangeable.
Youth set-aside beds
Beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count when a CoC has that figure available.
Community Context

How youth enter crisis

How youth enter crisis or homelessness in this community

Placeholder — this section will describe the typical pathways that lead a young person into a housing crisis in this community.

About this section

Lived experience

A story from this community is coming soon

This space is reserved for a firsthand account from a young person who experienced homelessness in this community. We're working with local partners to collect and share these stories with consent, and will replace this placeholder once one is available.

About the Author

Placeholder — Awaiting a shared story

System Pathways

| Balance of State

Stella Map FY24

Stella System Mapping (FY24)

HUD’s Stella Performance (Stella P) visualizes how people move through a local homelessness response system, including how long they remain unhoused, where they exit, and whether they return to homelessness. The map below focuses specifically on youth moving through the system, helping highlight pathways, outcomes, and potential system bottlenecks.

These figures come from Stella P's own system-flow pathway boxes — a different source and categorization than the HMIS project-type data in the "Projects & Enrollments" section below, so the two won't always match, even where category names overlap.
Balance of State
Youth pathways to exit for Balance of State: households flowing from population type to program type to exit destination
From To Households
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Emergency Shelter 636
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Rapid Rehousing 236
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Permanent Supportive Housing 34
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Transitional Housing 155
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Other Pathway Combinations 11
Parenting Youth Households Emergency Shelter 126
Parenting Youth Households Rapid Rehousing 145
Parenting Youth Households Permanent Supportive Housing 6
Parenting Youth Households Transitional Housing 24
Child-Only Households Emergency Shelter 10
Child-Only Households Transitional Housing 2
Emergency Shelter Exited to Permanent Housing 190
Emergency Shelter Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 356
Rapid Rehousing Exited to Permanent Housing 174
Rapid Rehousing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 56
Permanent Supportive Housing Exited to Permanent Housing 19
Permanent Supportive Housing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 7
Transitional Housing Exited to Permanent Housing 42
Transitional Housing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 42
Other Pathway Combinations Exited to Permanent Housing 2
Other Pathway Combinations Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 2
Key Takeaways
Crisis Response

How many young people entered emergency shelter, and what happened after.

Largest system by volume in the study.

Transitional Housing

How many young people used transitional housing as a stepping stone toward stability.

Largest transitional housing volume of any CoC, with stays well beyond a typical transitional timeframe.

Rapid Re-Housing

How many young people got help paying rent to move into their own place quickly.

By far the largest rapid re-housing pipeline in the state — carries the large majority of all rapid re-housing households across the five CoCs studied.

Permanent Supportive Housing

How many young people got long-term housing paired with ongoing support services.

Modest volume relative to rapid re-housing, but exit rates remain strong.

About this data

Source: Stella P Youth System Maps, Select Ohio CoCs, FY2024 (Abt Associates), "(OH-507) Ohio Balance of State CoC" tab, all three population views (AO 18-24 year old / AC Parenting Youth / Child Only) combined into one diagram.

First-stage values are the household (HH) counts shown entering each project type box on the Stella P map (i.e. "served in Homeless System" split by pathway). Second-stage values are derived: "Exited to Permanent Housing" = the numerator of each project type's green "X of Y exiting HH" exit-rate label; "Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown" = Y minus that numerator (households whose enrollment ended during the period without reaching a permanent destination).

NOTE: the exit-rate denominator (Y) is a distinct, Stella-P-defined cohort of households who exited that project type during FY2024 — it is NOT the same as the entry-stage HH count in the first link, so the two stages will not balance numerically; this mirrors how Stella P itself presents the data and is not a data-quality issue.

Pathways/segments with 0 HH are omitted rather than shown as zero-value links. Not yet reviewed/confirmed by Danielle (COHHIO).

Open questions for internal teams [this will be removed before publication]

Possible mischaracterization of the statewide "900" figure

This CoC's crisis-response volume may be the source of the "900" figure shown elsewhere on the site — confirm it isn't being mischaracterized as an unaccompanied-minors count.

System Utilization

| Balance of State

HMIS 2025

Projects & Enrollments

See which project types served at least one youth-headed household, which were dedicated exclusively to youth, and how many active enrollments they reported.

These figures come from HMIS project-type records — a different source and categorization than the Stella P system-flow diagram above, so the two won't always match, even where category names overlap.

Youth reach across all projects

588 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Youth-only projects by group

44 projects total

Access, Prevention, and Diversion

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Permanent Housing

Enrollments per person, 2025

Of 3,035 people in a qualifying youth-headed household, how many distinct enrollments did each person contribute during the year?

1 enrollment
24%
of all enrollments · 45% of people (1,355)
2 enrollments
39%
of all enrollments · 36% of people (1,105)
3+ enrollments
38%
of all enrollments · 19% of people (575)
Pathway Data

Access, Prevention, and Diversion

Access, Prevention, and Diversion project mix

254 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Coordinated Entry 7 88 13 2,359
Street Outreach 6 22 8 298
Homelessness Prevention 3 36 34 269
Day Shelter 0 0 0 0
Services Only 4 16 13 330
Other 0 1 3 2
Total 20 163 71 3,258

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing project mix

103 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Emergency Shelter – Entry/Exit 2 63 7 1,189
Emergency Shelter – Night-by-Night 0 0 0 0
Safe Haven 0 0 0 0
Transitional Housing 10 15 6 273
Total 12 78 13 1,462

Permanent Housing

Permanent Housing project mix

231 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Rapid Re-Housing 11 54 41 841
Permanent Supportive Housing 1 44 78 158
Housing Only 0 0 2 0
Housing with Services 0 0 0 0
Total 12 98 121 999
About this data

Here's how to read this: the project mix bar for each section divides up the total number of projects shown beside it, not the number of enrollments. The figures below the bar (youth-only, other projects which serve youth, and no qualifying youth households) always add up to that total. The table listed below gives the names of these projects. The figure for youth enrollments is a separate one that appears alongside the total, and it shows the recorded activity rather than the number of beds, vacancies, housing placements, or the number of unique young people.

Figures reflect project-level HMIS activity in 2025, the final year of the configured reporting period, not a running total across the full period.

"Total Projects" counts distinct projects of each HMIS project type with at least one enrollment active at any point during 2025, including project types with zero activity in the final reporting year.

"Served Youth" counts distinct projects of that type that recorded at least one qualifying youth-headed household during 2025. "Youth-Only" counts distinct projects where every household served was a qualifying youth-headed household.

"Active Enrollments" counts distinct EnrollmentID values active during 2025 for people who were part of a qualifying youth-headed household — all active household members are counted, not just the head of household. This is a measure of recorded activity, not beds, vacancies, or housing placements.

Housing & Capacity

Housing & Capacity | Balance of State

HMIS 2025

Units and Beds in HMIS

Youth set-aside beds

10,414 beds total

Youth set-aside

Other beds

Youth set-aside beds by pathway stage

409 beds total

Crisis response

Transitional housing

Permanent housing

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
ES Entry/Exit 2,462 2,925 6
ES Night-by-Night 10 0 0
Safe Haven 0 0 0
Total 2,472 2,925 6

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Transitional Housing 494 754 106
Total 494 754 106

Permanent Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Permanent Supportive Housing 3,046 4,237 9
PH Housing Only 27 27 0
PH Housing with Services 0 0 0
Rapid Re-Housing 1,278 1,920 288
Total 4,351 6,184 297
About this data

For each date, inventory is summed across all active inventory records in the project type. Beds count capacity for individual clients; units count capacity for households — equal to beds for projects serving single clients, and less than beds for projects serving families, since a household can occupy more than one bed within a unit. For each reporting year, the value shown is the highest combined daily total reached within that year (Housing Inventory Count method). Bars within a card are scaled to that card's own peak year for the selected metric, so capacity can be compared across years within a project type but not directly across project types.

Youth set-aside bed and unit figures reflect inventory capacity for the year, not real-time vacancy.

The stage-breakdown chart's percentages measure each pathway stage's share of 409 total youth set-aside beds, not of the CoC's overall bed inventory — 409 of 10,414 total beds across every project type in HMIS (4%) are youth set-aside.

The "Beds" column in the tables below shows year-round capacity only for shelter-type project types whose capacity flexes with demand (Emergency Shelter, Safe Haven) — it excludes seasonal and overflow beds, which are additional capacity added in response to demand rather than a fixed baseline. ES Entry/Exit: 541 seasonal/overflow beds not shown in its table row. ES Night-by-Night: 10 seasonal/overflow beds not shown in its table row.

"Youth set-aside beds" counts beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count. A "—" instead of a number means this CoC hasn't reported a count for that project type/stage yet, not that the count is confirmed to be zero.

Community Planning & Feedback

Community Planning & Feedback | Balance of State

YHSI Working Groups

Community-Identified Priorities

During system planning, Balance of State held a brainstorming session and documented what people said they wanted to see change. This section lists those items, grouped by the type of change requested.

Possible New or Expanded Types of Housing

  • Homelessness Prevention for Youth and Young Adults allocated regionally
  • More affordable housing
  • Safe housing for Youth and Young Adults
  • Intentional Permanent Housing placement for Youth and Young Adults
  • Funding source for Ross Transitional Housing
  • Public Housing Agency vouchers dedicated to Youth and Young Adults
  • Redistribute underutilized Permanent Supportive Housing to Youth and Young Adults
  • Increase Permanent Supportive Housing for Youth and Young Adults
  • Increased congregate Transitional Housing dedicated to Youth and Young Adults, modeled from Region 17

Possible New or Expanded Services

  • Eviction prevention dedicated to Youth and Young Adults
  • Childcare service integration
  • Financial security for Youth and Young Adults
  • Independent living skills
  • Early financial education
  • Identifying providers for under-18s
  • Addressing funding-restriction gaps

Essential Program Elements

  • Landlord training focused on Youth and Young Adults
  • More staff training
  • Agency policies/procedures appropriate for Youth and Young Adults
  • Better understanding of Youth and Young Adult head-of-household makeup
  • Better income analysis for Youth and Young Adults
  • Better program monitoring
  • Youth and Young Adult length-of-stay in Permanent Housing considerations
  • Identifying/motivating providers to serve Youth and Young Adults
  • Re-thinking Youth and Young Adult prioritization
  • Corrections/juvenile-justice coordination
  • Homelessness training for PCWAs

Specific Services

  • Cross-system coordination
  • Cross-system communication
  • Front porch coordination
About this data

Source: Balance of State System Map - Program Models Handout; "Key Takeaways: Essential Elements from YHSI Planning & Brainstorming Session(s)."

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At a Glance

OH-508

Urban

Canton / Stark County

The Canton/Massillon/Alliance CoC (OH-508) coordinates the youth homelessness response for urban Stark County.

575

sq mi area

374K

people in general population

45.4K

people in youth population (15-24)

MAP
Map of Canton
285
youth served
Distinct people served in a qualifying youth-headed household during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
462
youth enrollments
Total youth enrollments reported during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
60 days
Average time homeless for young adults
Source: FY2024 Stella Map
71 days
Average time homeless for parenting youth
Source: FY2024 Stella Map

Key Terms (click to expand or collapse)

Projects & Enrollments
Youth-only projects
Projects that served only youth households.
Other projects serving youth
Projects that served youth households, but not exclusively.
No qualifying youth households
Projects with no qualifying youth-headed household enrollments recorded.
Projects
Distinct HMIS-funded programs active during the reporting year.
Enrollments
Distinct youth-household enrollments recorded during the reporting year.
Youth
People ages 15–24, consistent with the sitewide definition of "Young Adult."
Units and Beds
Units
A physical housing or shelter placement — one per household, regardless of household size.
Beds
Capacity for individual people. A family's unit can include several beds, so beds and units count different things and are not interchangeable.
Youth set-aside beds
Beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count when a CoC has that figure available.
Community Context

How youth enter crisis

How youth enter crisis or homelessness in this community

Placeholder — this section will describe the typical pathways that lead a young person into a housing crisis in this community.

About this section

Lived experience

A story from this community is coming soon

This space is reserved for a firsthand account from a young person who experienced homelessness in this community. We're working with local partners to collect and share these stories with consent, and will replace this placeholder once one is available.

About the Author

Placeholder — Awaiting a shared story

System Pathways

| Canton / Stark County

Stella Map FY24

Stella System Mapping (FY24)

HUD’s Stella Performance (Stella P) visualizes how people move through a local homelessness response system, including how long they remain unhoused, where they exit, and whether they return to homelessness. The map below focuses specifically on youth moving through the system, helping highlight pathways, outcomes, and potential system bottlenecks.

These figures come from Stella P's own system-flow pathway boxes — a different source and categorization than the HMIS project-type data in the "Projects & Enrollments" section below, so the two won't always match, even where category names overlap.
Canton / Stark County
Youth pathways to exit for Canton / Stark County: households flowing from population type to program type to exit destination
From To Households
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Emergency Shelter 39
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Rapid Rehousing 9
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Permanent Supportive Housing 10
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Transitional Housing 3
Parenting Youth Households Emergency Shelter 17
Parenting Youth Households Rapid Rehousing 10
Parenting Youth Households Permanent Supportive Housing 1
Emergency Shelter Exited to Permanent Housing 12
Emergency Shelter Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 30
Rapid Rehousing Exited to Permanent Housing 5
Rapid Rehousing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 8
Permanent Supportive Housing Exited to Permanent Housing 6
Permanent Supportive Housing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 3
Key Takeaways
Crisis Response

How many young people entered emergency shelter, and what happened after.

Smallest system in the study; the Child-Only population shows zero recorded activity across every stage — a genuine coverage gap, not a data error.

Transitional Housing

How many young people used transitional housing as a stepping stone toward stability.

Nearly nonexistent — a single-digit household count, entirely within one population.

Rapid Re-Housing

How many young people got help paying rent to move into their own place quickly.

Sharp disparity: unaccompanied youth exit at a solid rate, while parenting youth show a 0% exit rate despite the longest average housed duration in the entire dataset — a specific equity gap worth naming, not smoothing over.

Permanent Supportive Housing

How many young people got long-term housing paired with ongoing support services.

Same pattern as rapid re-housing — unaccompanied youth exit successfully, parenting youth do not (very small sample, so interpret cautiously).

About this data

Source: Stella P Youth System Maps, Select Ohio CoCs, FY2024 (Abt Associates), "(OH-508) Canton, Massillon, Alliance/Stark County CoC" tab, all three population views (AO 18-24 year old / AC Parenting Youth / Child Only) combined into one diagram.

First-stage values are the household (HH) counts shown entering each project type box on the Stella P map (i.e. "served in Homeless System" split by pathway). Second-stage values are derived: "Exited to Permanent Housing" = the numerator of each project type's green "X of Y exiting HH" exit-rate label; "Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown" = Y minus that numerator (households whose enrollment ended during the period without reaching a permanent destination).

NOTE: the exit-rate denominator (Y) is a distinct, Stella-P-defined cohort of households who exited that project type during FY2024 — it is NOT the same as the entry-stage HH count in the first link, so the two stages will not balance numerically; this mirrors how Stella P itself presents the data and is not a data-quality issue.

Pathways/segments with 0 HH are omitted rather than shown as zero-value links. Not yet reviewed/confirmed by Danielle (COHHIO).

System Utilization

| Canton / Stark County

HMIS 2025

Projects & Enrollments

See which project types served at least one youth-headed household, which were dedicated exclusively to youth, and how many active enrollments they reported.

These figures come from HMIS project-type records — a different source and categorization than the Stella P system-flow diagram above, so the two won't always match, even where category names overlap.

Youth reach across all projects

71 projects total

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Youth-only projects by group

0 projects total

No youth-only projects recorded.

Enrollments per person, 2025

Of 285 people in a qualifying youth-headed household, how many distinct enrollments did each person contribute during the year?

1 enrollment
37%
of all enrollments · 60% of people (172)
2 enrollments
32%
of all enrollments · 26% of people (73)
3+ enrollments
31%
of all enrollments · 14% of people (40)
Pathway Data

Access, Prevention, and Diversion

Access, Prevention, and Diversion project mix

19 projects total

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Coordinated Entry 0 0 0 0
Street Outreach 0 2 1 6
Homelessness Prevention 0 2 5 8
Day Shelter 0 0 0 0
Services Only 0 3 6 12
Other 0 0 0 287
Total 0 7 12 313

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing project mix

20 projects total

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Emergency Shelter – Entry/Exit 0 9 4 92
Emergency Shelter – Night-by-Night 0 0 0 0
Safe Haven 0 1 1 1
Transitional Housing 0 1 4 1
Total 0 11 9 94

Permanent Housing

Permanent Housing project mix

32 projects total

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Rapid Re-Housing 0 5 5 24
Permanent Supportive Housing 0 6 13 27
Housing Only 0 2 0 4
Housing with Services 0 0 1 0
Total 0 13 19 55
About this data

Here's how to read this: the project mix bar for each section divides up the total number of projects shown beside it, not the number of enrollments. The figures below the bar (youth-only, other projects which serve youth, and no qualifying youth households) always add up to that total. The table listed below gives the names of these projects. The figure for youth enrollments is a separate one that appears alongside the total, and it shows the recorded activity rather than the number of beds, vacancies, housing placements, or the number of unique young people.

Source: Copy of yhsi_OH-508_20260827_150913.xlsx (OH-508 Project Type Analysis tab).

Figures reflect project-level HMIS activity in 2025, the final year of the configured reporting period, not a running total across the full period.

"Total Projects" counts distinct projects of each HMIS project type with at least one enrollment active at any point during 2025, including project types with zero activity in the final reporting year.

"Served Youth" counts distinct projects of that type that recorded at least one qualifying youth-headed household during 2025. "Youth-Only" counts distinct projects where every household served was a qualifying youth-headed household.

"Active Enrollments" counts distinct EnrollmentID values active during 2025 for people who were part of a qualifying youth-headed household — all active household members are counted, not just the head of household. This is a measure of recorded activity, not beds, vacancies, or housing placements.

Housing & Capacity

Housing & Capacity | Canton / Stark County

HMIS 2025

Units and Beds in HMIS

Youth set-aside beds

875 beds total

Other beds

Youth set-aside beds by pathway stage

0 beds total

No youth set-aside beds recorded.

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
ES Entry/Exit 100 102 0
ES Night-by-Night 0 0 0
Safe Haven 1 1 0
Total 101 103 0

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Transitional Housing 9 9 0
Total 9 9 0

Permanent Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Permanent Supportive Housing 131 176 0
PH Housing Only 0 0 0
PH Housing with Services 20 20 0
Rapid Re-Housing 244 546 0
Total 395 742 0
About this data

For each date, inventory is summed across all active inventory records in the project type. Beds count capacity for individual clients; units count capacity for households — equal to beds for projects serving single clients, and less than beds for projects serving families, since a household can occupy more than one bed within a unit. For each reporting year, the value shown is the highest combined daily total reached within that year (Housing Inventory Count method). Bars within a card are scaled to that card's own peak year for the selected metric, so capacity can be compared across years within a project type but not directly across project types. Source: Copy of yhsi_OH-508_20260827_150913.xlsx (OH-508 Beds Inventory / OH-508 Units Inventory tabs).

Youth set-aside bed and unit figures reflect inventory capacity for the year, not real-time vacancy.

The stage-breakdown chart's percentages measure each pathway stage's share of 0 total youth set-aside beds, not of the CoC's overall bed inventory — 0 of 875 total beds across every project type in HMIS (0%) are youth set-aside.

The "Beds" column in the tables below shows year-round capacity only for shelter-type project types whose capacity flexes with demand (Emergency Shelter, Safe Haven) — it excludes seasonal and overflow beds, which are additional capacity added in response to demand rather than a fixed baseline. ES Entry/Exit: 21 seasonal/overflow beds not shown in its table row.

"Youth set-aside beds" counts beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count. A "—" instead of a number means this CoC hasn't reported a count for that project type/stage yet, not that the count is confirmed to be zero.

Community Planning & Feedback

Community Planning & Feedback | Canton / Stark County

YHSI Working Groups

Community-Identified Priorities

During system planning, Canton held a brainstorming session and documented what people said they wanted to see change. This section lists those items, grouped by the type of change requested.

Possible New or Expanded Types of Housing

  • Youth-specific Permanent Supportive Housing
  • Youth-dedicated Emergency Shelter
  • Youth-dedicated Rapid Re-Housing
  • Increased funding for medium/long-term housing

Possible New or Expanded Services

  • Youth-dedicated drop-in center
  • More flexible financial assistance
  • Secondary/intensive diversion and prevention
  • Youth-focused LGBTQ+ provider
  • Youth-focused immigrant supports
  • Programs for pregnant/parenting youth

Essential Program Elements

  • Increased hotline capacity
  • Increased outreach capacity
  • More provider capacity
  • Training staff on housing problem-solving
  • Better understanding of existing services among providers
  • Tenant education for youth
  • Specialized mobile navigation team
  • More safe spaces

Specific Services

  • Common screening/assessment tool
  • Youth-dedicated system coordinator
  • Youth-focused community guide
About this data

Source: Canton System Map - Program Models Handout; "Key Takeaways: Essential Elements from YHSI Planning & Brainstorming Session(s)."

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At a Glance

OH-502

Urban

Cleveland / Cuyahoga County

The Cleveland CoC (OH-502) coordinates the youth homelessness response for urban Cuyahoga County, Ohio's largest single-county system.

TBD

sq mi area

1.25M

people in general population

147.8K

people in youth population (15-24)

MAP
Map coming soon
1,695
youth served
Distinct people served in a qualifying youth-headed household during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
4,062
youth enrollments
Total youth enrollments reported during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
TBD
Average time homeless for young adults
Source: TBD Stella Map
TBD
Average time homeless for parenting youth
Source: TBD Stella Map

Key Terms (click to expand or collapse)

Projects & Enrollments
Youth-only projects
Projects that served only youth households.
Other projects serving youth
Projects that served youth households, but not exclusively.
No qualifying youth households
Projects with no qualifying youth-headed household enrollments recorded.
Projects
Distinct HMIS-funded programs active during the reporting year.
Enrollments
Distinct youth-household enrollments recorded during the reporting year.
Youth
People ages 15–24, consistent with the sitewide definition of "Young Adult."
Units and Beds
Units
A physical housing or shelter placement — one per household, regardless of household size.
Beds
Capacity for individual people. A family's unit can include several beds, so beds and units count different things and are not interchangeable.
Youth set-aside beds
Beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count when a CoC has that figure available.
Community Context

How youth enter crisis

How youth enter crisis or homelessness in this community

Placeholder — this section will describe the typical pathways that lead a young person into a housing crisis in this community.

About this section

Lived experience

A story from this community is coming soon

This space is reserved for a firsthand account from a young person who experienced homelessness in this community. We're working with local partners to collect and share these stories with consent, and will replace this placeholder once one is available.

About the Author

Placeholder — Awaiting a shared story

System Pathways
System Utilization

| Cleveland / Cuyahoga County

HMIS 2025

Projects & Enrollments

See which project types served at least one youth-headed household, which were dedicated exclusively to youth, and how many active enrollments they reported.

These figures come from HMIS project-type records — a different source and categorization than the Stella P system-flow diagram above, so the two won't always match, even where category names overlap.

Youth reach across all projects

136 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Youth-only projects by group

6 projects total

Access, Prevention, and Diversion

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Enrollments per person, 2025

Of 1,695 people in a qualifying youth-headed household, how many distinct enrollments did each person contribute during the year?

1 enrollment
20%
of all enrollments · 48% of people (814)
2 enrollments
16%
of all enrollments · 20% of people (331)
3+ enrollments
64%
of all enrollments · 32% of people (550)
Pathway Data

Access, Prevention, and Diversion

Access, Prevention, and Diversion project mix

28 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Coordinated Entry 0 2 0 845
Street Outreach 1 1 1 13
Homelessness Prevention 0 7 0 191
Day Shelter 0 0 0 0
Services Only 2 10 1 663
Other 0 0 3 0
Total 3 20 5 1,712

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing project mix

35 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Emergency Shelter – Entry/Exit 2 19 4 1,216
Emergency Shelter – Night-by-Night 0 0 0 0
Safe Haven 0 0 3 0
Transitional Housing 1 3 3 136
Total 3 22 10 1,352

Permanent Housing

Permanent Housing project mix

73 projects total

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Rapid Re-Housing 0 14 1 532
Permanent Supportive Housing 0 33 25 466
Housing Only 0 0 0 0
Housing with Services 0 0 0 0
Total 0 47 26 998
About this data

Here's how to read this: the project mix bar for each section divides up the total number of projects shown beside it, not the number of enrollments. The figures below the bar (youth-only, other projects which serve youth, and no qualifying youth households) always add up to that total. The table listed below gives the names of these projects. The figure for youth enrollments is a separate one that appears alongside the total, and it shows the recorded activity rather than the number of beds, vacancies, housing placements, or the number of unique young people.

Source: Copy of yhsi_OH-502_20260827_150723.xlsx (OH-502 Project Type Analysis tab).

Figures reflect project-level HMIS activity in 2025, the final year of the configured reporting period, not a running total across the full period.

"Total Projects" counts distinct projects of each HMIS project type with at least one enrollment active at any point during 2025, including project types with zero activity in the final reporting year.

"Served Youth" counts distinct projects of that type that recorded at least one qualifying youth-headed household during 2025. "Youth-Only" counts distinct projects where every household served was a qualifying youth-headed household.

"Active Enrollments" counts distinct EnrollmentID values active during 2025 for people who were part of a qualifying youth-headed household — all active household members are counted, not just the head of household. This is a measure of recorded activity, not beds, vacancies, or housing placements.

Housing & Capacity

Housing & Capacity | Cleveland / Cuyahoga County

HMIS 2025

Units and Beds in HMIS

Youth set-aside beds

11,175 beds total

Youth set-aside

Other beds

Youth set-aside beds by pathway stage

220 beds total

Crisis response

Transitional housing

Permanent housing

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
ES Entry/Exit 1,375 1,581 68
ES Night-by-Night 0 0 0
Safe Haven 51 51 0
Total 1,426 1,632 68

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Transitional Housing 104 130 48
Total 104 130 48

Permanent Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Permanent Supportive Housing 5,704 7,910 46
PH Housing Only 0 0 0
PH Housing with Services 0 0 0
Rapid Re-Housing 650 1,232 58
Total 6,354 9,142 104
About this data

For each date, inventory is summed across all active inventory records in the project type. Beds count capacity for individual clients; units count capacity for households — equal to beds for projects serving single clients, and less than beds for projects serving families, since a household can occupy more than one bed within a unit. For each reporting year, the value shown is the highest combined daily total reached within that year (Housing Inventory Count method). Bars within a card are scaled to that card's own peak year for the selected metric, so capacity can be compared across years within a project type but not directly across project types. Source: Copy of yhsi_OH-502_20260827_150723.xlsx (OH-502 Beds Inventory / OH-502 Units Inventory tabs).

Youth set-aside bed and unit figures reflect inventory capacity for the year, not real-time vacancy.

The stage-breakdown chart's percentages measure each pathway stage's share of 220 total youth set-aside beds, not of the CoC's overall bed inventory — 220 of 11,175 total beds across every project type in HMIS (2%) are youth set-aside.

The "Beds" column in the tables below shows year-round capacity only for shelter-type project types whose capacity flexes with demand (Emergency Shelter, Safe Haven) — it excludes seasonal and overflow beds, which are additional capacity added in response to demand rather than a fixed baseline. ES Entry/Exit: 271 seasonal/overflow beds not shown in its table row.

"Youth set-aside beds" counts beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count. A "—" instead of a number means this CoC hasn't reported a count for that project type/stage yet, not that the count is confirmed to be zero.

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At a Glance

OH-505

Urban

Dayton / Montgomery County

The Dayton CoC (OH-505) coordinates the youth homelessness response for Dayton, Kettering, and urban Montgomery County.

461

sq mi area

536K

people in general population

69.4K

people in youth population (15-24)

MAP
Map of Dayton
787
youth served
Distinct people served in a qualifying youth-headed household during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
1,366
youth enrollments
Total youth enrollments reported during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
91 days
Average time homeless for young adults
Source: FY2024 Stella Map
129 days
Average time homeless for parenting youth
Source: FY2024 Stella Map

Key Terms (click to expand or collapse)

Projects & Enrollments
Youth-only projects
Projects that served only youth households.
Other projects serving youth
Projects that served youth households, but not exclusively.
No qualifying youth households
Projects with no qualifying youth-headed household enrollments recorded.
Projects
Distinct HMIS-funded programs active during the reporting year.
Enrollments
Distinct youth-household enrollments recorded during the reporting year.
Youth
People ages 15–24, consistent with the sitewide definition of "Young Adult."
Units and Beds
Units
A physical housing or shelter placement — one per household, regardless of household size.
Beds
Capacity for individual people. A family's unit can include several beds, so beds and units count different things and are not interchangeable.
Youth set-aside beds
Beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count when a CoC has that figure available.
Community Context

How youth enter crisis

How youth enter crisis or homelessness in this community

Placeholder — this section will describe the typical pathways that lead a young person into a housing crisis in this community.

About this section

Lived experience

A story from this community is coming soon

This space is reserved for a firsthand account from a young person who experienced homelessness in this community. We're working with local partners to collect and share these stories with consent, and will replace this placeholder once one is available.

About the Author

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System Pathways

| Dayton / Montgomery County

Stella Map FY24

Stella System Mapping (FY24)

HUD’s Stella Performance (Stella P) visualizes how people move through a local homelessness response system, including how long they remain unhoused, where they exit, and whether they return to homelessness. The map below focuses specifically on youth moving through the system, helping highlight pathways, outcomes, and potential system bottlenecks.

These figures come from Stella P's own system-flow pathway boxes — a different source and categorization than the HMIS project-type data in the "Projects & Enrollments" section below, so the two won't always match, even where category names overlap.
Dayton / Montgomery County
Youth pathways to exit for Dayton / Montgomery County: households flowing from population type to program type to exit destination
From To Households
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Emergency Shelter 455
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Rapid Rehousing 92
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Permanent Supportive Housing 5
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Transitional Housing 85
Parenting Youth Households Emergency Shelter 52
Parenting Youth Households Rapid Rehousing 17
Parenting Youth Households Permanent Supportive Housing 3
Parenting Youth Households Transitional Housing 8
Parenting Youth Households Other Pathway Combinations 3
Child-Only Households Emergency Shelter 95
Emergency Shelter Exited to Permanent Housing 139
Emergency Shelter Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 243
Rapid Rehousing Exited to Permanent Housing 45
Rapid Rehousing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 3
Permanent Supportive Housing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 2
Transitional Housing Exited to Permanent Housing 18
Transitional Housing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 16
Key Takeaways
Crisis Response

How many young people entered emergency shelter, and what happened after.

Highest-volume emergency shelter system in the study; child-only households move through fastest, unaccompanied youth stay longest.

Transitional Housing

How many young people used transitional housing as a stepping stone toward stability.

Average transitional housing stays run far longer than a typical transitional model — worth naming explicitly rather than averaging away.

Rapid Re-Housing

How many young people got help paying rent to move into their own place quickly.

Largest and strongest rapid re-housing pipeline in the study — the large majority of enrolled households exit to a permanent destination.

Permanent Supportive Housing

How many young people got long-term housing paired with ongoing support services.

Small permanent supportive housing volume with a 0% exit rate in both cohorts studied — a specific program gap, notably different from rapid re-housing's strong performance in this same CoC.

About this data

Source: Stella P Youth System Maps, Select Ohio CoCs, FY2024 (Abt Associates), "(OH-505) Dayton, Kettering/Montgomery County CoC" tab, all three population views (AO 18-24 year old / AC Parenting Youth / Child Only) combined into one diagram.

First-stage values are the household (HH) counts shown entering each project type box on the Stella P map (i.e. "served in Homeless System" split by pathway). Second-stage values are derived: "Exited to Permanent Housing" = the numerator of each project type's green "X of Y exiting HH" exit-rate label; "Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown" = Y minus that numerator (households whose enrollment ended during the period without reaching a permanent destination).

NOTE: the exit-rate denominator (Y) is a distinct, Stella-P-defined cohort of households who exited that project type during FY2024 — it is NOT the same as the entry-stage HH count in the first link, so the two stages will not balance numerically; this mirrors how Stella P itself presents the data and is not a data-quality issue.

Pathways/segments with 0 HH are omitted rather than shown as zero-value links. Not yet reviewed/confirmed by Danielle (COHHIO).

System Utilization

| Dayton / Montgomery County

HMIS 2025

Projects & Enrollments

See which project types served at least one youth-headed household, which were dedicated exclusively to youth, and how many active enrollments they reported.

These figures come from HMIS project-type records — a different source and categorization than the Stella P system-flow diagram above, so the two won't always match, even where category names overlap.

Youth reach across all projects

38 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Youth-only projects by group

3 projects total

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Permanent Housing

Enrollments per person, 2025

Of 787 people in a qualifying youth-headed household, how many distinct enrollments did each person contribute during the year?

1 enrollment
37%
of all enrollments · 65% of people (510)
2 enrollments
19%
of all enrollments · 17% of people (130)
3+ enrollments
44%
of all enrollments · 19% of people (147)
Pathway Data

Access, Prevention, and Diversion

Access, Prevention, and Diversion project mix

5 projects total

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Coordinated Entry 0 0 0 0
Street Outreach 0 3 1 261
Homelessness Prevention 0 0 0 0
Day Shelter 0 0 0 0
Services Only 0 1 0 4
Other 0 0 0 0
Total 0 4 1 265

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing project mix

9 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Emergency Shelter – Entry/Exit 0 1 1 247
Emergency Shelter – Night-by-Night 0 4 0 596
Safe Haven 0 0 0 0
Transitional Housing 1 2 0 107
Total 1 7 1 950

Permanent Housing

Permanent Housing project mix

24 projects total

Youth-only

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Rapid Re-Housing 2 4 3 120
Permanent Supportive Housing 0 7 8 31
Housing Only 0 0 0 0
Housing with Services 0 0 0 0
Total 2 11 11 151
About this data

Here's how to read this: the project mix bar for each section divides up the total number of projects shown beside it, not the number of enrollments. The figures below the bar (youth-only, other projects which serve youth, and no qualifying youth households) always add up to that total. The table listed below gives the names of these projects. The figure for youth enrollments is a separate one that appears alongside the total, and it shows the recorded activity rather than the number of beds, vacancies, housing placements, or the number of unique young people.

Source: Copy of yhsi_OH-505_20260827_151015.xlsx (OH-505 Project Type Analysis tab).

Figures reflect project-level HMIS activity in 2025, the final year of the configured reporting period, not a running total across the full period.

"Total Projects" counts distinct projects of each HMIS project type with at least one enrollment active at any point during 2025, including project types with zero activity in the final reporting year.

"Served Youth" counts distinct projects of that type that recorded at least one qualifying youth-headed household during 2025. "Youth-Only" counts distinct projects where every household served was a qualifying youth-headed household.

"Active Enrollments" counts distinct EnrollmentID values active during 2025 for people who were part of a qualifying youth-headed household — all active household members are counted, not just the head of household. This is a measure of recorded activity, not beds, vacancies, or housing placements.

Housing & Capacity

Housing & Capacity | Dayton / Montgomery County

HMIS 2025

Units and Beds in HMIS

Youth set-aside beds

2,936 beds total

Youth set-aside

Other beds

Youth set-aside beds by pathway stage

163 beds total

Crisis response

Transitional housing

Permanent housing

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
ES Entry/Exit 40 40 24
ES Night-by-Night 703 569 0
Safe Haven 0 0 0
Total 743 609 24

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Transitional Housing 84 109 66
Total 84 109 66

Permanent Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Permanent Supportive Housing 1,066 1,371 0
PH Housing Only 0 0 0
PH Housing with Services 0 0 0
Rapid Re-Housing 459 637 73
Total 1,525 2,008 73
About this data

For each date, inventory is summed across all active inventory records in the project type. Beds count capacity for individual clients; units count capacity for households — equal to beds for projects serving single clients, and less than beds for projects serving families, since a household can occupy more than one bed within a unit. For each reporting year, the value shown is the highest combined daily total reached within that year (Housing Inventory Count method). Bars within a card are scaled to that card's own peak year for the selected metric, so capacity can be compared across years within a project type but not directly across project types. Source: Copy of yhsi_OH-505_20260827_151015.xlsx (OH-505 Beds Inventory / OH-505 Units Inventory tabs).

Youth set-aside bed and unit figures reflect inventory capacity for the year, not real-time vacancy.

The stage-breakdown chart's percentages measure each pathway stage's share of 163 total youth set-aside beds, not of the CoC's overall bed inventory — 163 of 2,936 total beds across every project type in HMIS (6%) are youth set-aside.

The "Beds" column in the tables below shows year-round capacity only for shelter-type project types whose capacity flexes with demand (Emergency Shelter, Safe Haven) — it excludes seasonal and overflow beds, which are additional capacity added in response to demand rather than a fixed baseline. ES Night-by-Night: 210 seasonal/overflow beds not shown in its table row.

"Youth set-aside beds" counts beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count. A "—" instead of a number means this CoC hasn't reported a count for that project type/stage yet, not that the count is confirmed to be zero.

Community Planning & Feedback

Community Planning & Feedback | Dayton / Montgomery County

YHSI Working Groups

Community-Identified Priorities

During system planning, Dayton held a brainstorming session and documented what people said they wanted to see change. This section lists those items, grouped by the type of change requested.

Possible New or Expanded Types of Housing

  • More Youth and Young Adult beds across the board
  • More housing options

Possible New or Expanded Services

  • More flexible funding (Ohio Department of Health?)
  • Increased capacity/resources for expanded homelessness definition
  • More outreach

Essential Program Elements

  • Increased marketing/awareness/education
  • Rebuilding agency relationships and sharing wins
  • Increased staff capacity
  • Housing wage
  • Data solutions and communication
  • Supportive services data
  • Follow-up/aftercare data

Specific Services

  • Hotline coordination
  • Facilitation
  • Navigation
About this data

Source: Dayton System Map - Program Models Handout; "Key Takeaways: Essential Elements from YHSI Planning & Brainstorming Session(s)."

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At a Glance

OH-501

Urban

Toledo / Lucas County

The Toledo CoC (OH-501) coordinates the youth homelessness response for urban Lucas County.

340

sq mi area

428K

people in general population

55.0K

people in youth population (15-24)

MAP
Map of Toledo
756
youth served
Distinct people served in a qualifying youth-headed household during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
1,435
youth enrollments
Total youth enrollments reported during 2025.
Source: HMIS Data, 2025
77 days
Average time homeless for young adults
Source: FY2024 Stella Map
55 days
Average time homeless for parenting youth
Source: FY2024 Stella Map

Key Terms (click to expand or collapse)

Projects & Enrollments
Youth-only projects
Projects that served only youth households.
Other projects serving youth
Projects that served youth households, but not exclusively.
No qualifying youth households
Projects with no qualifying youth-headed household enrollments recorded.
Projects
Distinct HMIS-funded programs active during the reporting year.
Enrollments
Distinct youth-household enrollments recorded during the reporting year.
Youth
People ages 15–24, consistent with the sitewide definition of "Young Adult."
Units and Beds
Units
A physical housing or shelter placement — one per household, regardless of household size.
Beds
Capacity for individual people. A family's unit can include several beds, so beds and units count different things and are not interchangeable.
Youth set-aside beds
Beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count when a CoC has that figure available.
Community Context

How youth enter crisis

How youth enter crisis or homelessness in this community

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Lived experience

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System Pathways

| Toledo / Lucas County

Stella Map FY24

Stella System Mapping (FY24)

HUD’s Stella Performance (Stella P) visualizes how people move through a local homelessness response system, including how long they remain unhoused, where they exit, and whether they return to homelessness. The map below focuses specifically on youth moving through the system, helping highlight pathways, outcomes, and potential system bottlenecks.

These figures come from Stella P's own system-flow pathway boxes — a different source and categorization than the HMIS project-type data in the "Projects & Enrollments" section below, so the two won't always match, even where category names overlap.
Toledo / Lucas County
Youth pathways to exit for Toledo / Lucas County: households flowing from population type to program type to exit destination
From To Households
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Emergency Shelter 96
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Permanent Supportive Housing 8
Unaccompanied Youth (18-24) Transitional Housing 1
Parenting Youth Households Emergency Shelter 9
Parenting Youth Households Rapid Rehousing 6
Parenting Youth Households Permanent Supportive Housing 4
Parenting Youth Households Transitional Housing 1
Child-Only Households Emergency Shelter 83
Emergency Shelter Exited to Permanent Housing 26
Emergency Shelter Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 140
Rapid Rehousing Exited to Permanent Housing 2
Permanent Supportive Housing Exited to Permanent Housing 3
Permanent Supportive Housing Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown 2
Transitional Housing Exited to Permanent Housing 1
Key Takeaways
Crisis Response

How many young people entered emergency shelter, and what happened after.

Length of stay in emergency shelter varies sharply by population — steep drop from unaccompanied youth to child-only households.

Transitional Housing

How many young people used transitional housing as a stepping stone toward stability.

Essentially unused pathway — a small handful of households across all three youth populations combined.

Rapid Re-Housing

How many young people got help paying rent to move into their own place quickly.

Only used for parenting-youth households here — small volume, but a perfect exit rate where it's used.

Permanent Supportive Housing

How many young people got long-term housing paired with ongoing support services.

Modest volume across unaccompanied and parenting youth, with pre-move-in waits ranging widely.

About this data

Source: Stella P Youth System Maps, Select Ohio CoCs, FY2024 (Abt Associates), "(OH-501) Toledo/Lucas County CoC" tab, all three population views (AO 18-24 year old / AC Parenting Youth / Child Only) combined into one diagram.

First-stage values are the household (HH) counts shown entering each project type box on the Stella P map (i.e. "served in Homeless System" split by pathway). Second-stage values are derived: "Exited to Permanent Housing" = the numerator of each project type's green "X of Y exiting HH" exit-rate label; "Exited Non-Permanent/Unknown" = Y minus that numerator (households whose enrollment ended during the period without reaching a permanent destination).

NOTE: the exit-rate denominator (Y) is a distinct, Stella-P-defined cohort of households who exited that project type during FY2024 — it is NOT the same as the entry-stage HH count in the first link, so the two stages will not balance numerically; this mirrors how Stella P itself presents the data and is not a data-quality issue.

Pathways/segments with 0 HH are omitted rather than shown as zero-value links. Not yet reviewed/confirmed by Danielle (COHHIO).

System Utilization

| Toledo / Lucas County

HMIS 2025

Projects & Enrollments

See which project types served at least one youth-headed household, which were dedicated exclusively to youth, and how many active enrollments they reported.

These figures come from HMIS project-type records — a different source and categorization than the Stella P system-flow diagram above, so the two won't always match, even where category names overlap.

Youth reach across all projects

35 projects total

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Youth-only projects by group

0 projects total

No youth-only projects recorded.

Enrollments per person, 2025

Of 756 people in a qualifying youth-headed household, how many distinct enrollments did each person contribute during the year?

1 enrollment
31%
of all enrollments · 60% of people (450)
2 enrollments
20%
of all enrollments · 19% of people (147)
3+ enrollments
48%
of all enrollments · 21% of people (159)
Pathway Data

Access, Prevention, and Diversion

Access, Prevention, and Diversion project mix

6 projects total

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Coordinated Entry 0 1 1 907
Street Outreach 0 1 0 31
Homelessness Prevention 0 0 1 0
Day Shelter 0 0 0 0
Services Only 0 2 0 106
Other 0 0 0 0
Total 0 4 2 1,044

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing project mix

11 projects total

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Emergency Shelter – Entry/Exit 0 6 0 192
Emergency Shelter – Night-by-Night 0 2 0 140
Safe Haven 0 0 1 0
Transitional Housing 0 1 1 5
Total 0 9 2 337

Permanent Housing

Permanent Housing project mix

18 projects total

Other projects serving youth

No qualifying youth households

Entry point Youth-only Serving youth No qualifying Youth enrollments
Rapid Re-Housing 0 1 1 8
Permanent Supportive Housing 0 9 7 46
Housing Only 0 0 0 0
Housing with Services 0 0 0 0
Total 0 10 8 54
About this data

Here's how to read this: the project mix bar for each section divides up the total number of projects shown beside it, not the number of enrollments. The figures below the bar (youth-only, other projects which serve youth, and no qualifying youth households) always add up to that total. The table listed below gives the names of these projects. The figure for youth enrollments is a separate one that appears alongside the total, and it shows the recorded activity rather than the number of beds, vacancies, housing placements, or the number of unique young people.

Source: Copy of yhsi_OH-501_20260827_151107.xlsx (OH-501 Project Type Analysis tab).

Figures reflect project-level HMIS activity in 2025, the final year of the configured reporting period, not a running total across the full period.

"Total Projects" counts distinct projects of each HMIS project type with at least one enrollment active at any point during 2025, including project types with zero activity in the final reporting year.

"Served Youth" counts distinct projects of that type that recorded at least one qualifying youth-headed household during 2025. "Youth-Only" counts distinct projects where every household served was a qualifying youth-headed household.

"Active Enrollments" counts distinct EnrollmentID values active during 2025 for people who were part of a qualifying youth-headed household — all active household members are counted, not just the head of household. This is a measure of recorded activity, not beds, vacancies, or housing placements.

Housing & Capacity

Housing & Capacity | Toledo / Lucas County

HMIS 2025

Units and Beds in HMIS

Youth set-aside beds

1,803 beds total

Youth set-aside

Other beds

Youth set-aside beds by pathway stage

14 beds total

Crisis response

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
ES Entry/Exit 41 266 14
ES Night-by-Night 26 240 0
Safe Haven 0 0 0
Total 67 506 14

Crisis Response and Transitional Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Transitional Housing 31 64 0
Total 31 64 0

Permanent Housing

Project type Units Total beds Youth set-aside beds
Permanent Supportive Housing 614 927 0
PH Housing Only 0 0 0
PH Housing with Services 0 0 0
Rapid Re-Housing 66 193 0
Total 680 1,120 0
About this data

For each date, inventory is summed across all active inventory records in the project type. Beds count capacity for individual clients; units count capacity for households — equal to beds for projects serving single clients, and less than beds for projects serving families, since a household can occupy more than one bed within a unit. For each reporting year, the value shown is the highest combined daily total reached within that year (Housing Inventory Count method). Bars within a card are scaled to that card's own peak year for the selected metric, so capacity can be compared across years within a project type but not directly across project types. Source: Copy of yhsi_OH-501_20260827_151107.xlsx (OH-501 Beds Inventory / OH-501 Units Inventory tabs).

Youth set-aside bed and unit figures reflect inventory capacity for the year, not real-time vacancy.

The stage-breakdown chart's percentages measure each pathway stage's share of 14 total youth set-aside beds, not of the CoC's overall bed inventory — 14 of 1,803 total beds across every project type in HMIS (1%) are youth set-aside.

The "Beds" column in the tables below shows year-round capacity only for shelter-type project types whose capacity flexes with demand (Emergency Shelter, Safe Haven) — it excludes seasonal and overflow beds, which are additional capacity added in response to demand rather than a fixed baseline. ES Entry/Exit: 85 seasonal/overflow beds not shown in its table row. ES Night-by-Night: 28 seasonal/overflow beds not shown in its table row.

"Youth set-aside beds" counts beds within a project specifically reserved for qualifying youth-headed households, reported separately from the project's total bed count. A "—" instead of a number means this CoC hasn't reported a count for that project type/stage yet, not that the count is confirmed to be zero.

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⚠️ PH Housing Only shows beds with no units in 2023

OH-501 Beds Inventory reports 159 beds for PH - Housing Only in 2023, but OH-501 Units Inventory reports 0 units for that same project type and year. Beds without units isn't possible under this metric's own definition (units count capacity for households; beds count capacity for individual clients within those units). Doesn't affect what's currently on screen — the card only shows the latest year (2025), where both are 0 — but the raw 2023 figures are stored as reported. Source: Copy of yhsi_OH-501_20260827_151107.xlsx (OH-501 Beds Inventory / OH-501 Units Inventory tabs). Flagging for confirmation before publication rather than silently reconciling.

Community Planning & Feedback

Community Planning & Feedback | Toledo / Lucas County

YHSI Working Groups

Community-Identified Priorities

During system planning, Toledo held a brainstorming session and documented what people said they wanted to see change. This section lists those items, grouped by the type of change requested.

Possible New or Expanded Types of Housing

  • Increased youth-dedicated Emergency Shelter
  • Increased Permanent Supportive Housing
  • Crisis youth housing

Possible New or Expanded Services

  • More youth navigators
  • Increased floater capacity
  • Star Program
  • Central database
  • Increased transportation assistance
  • Increased dedicated youth workforce
  • Increased community outreach/awareness

Essential Program Elements

  • Increased staff capacity
  • Building trusting relationships
  • More youth-centered mental health resources

Specific Services

  • Community interest/funding for youth programs
  • Opportunities for youth to advocate with officials
  • Aligned McKinney-Vento/HUD definitions
  • Create Toledo Public Schools Youth Action Board
  • Create Lucas County Youth Action Board
About this data

Source: Toledo System Map - Program Models Handout; "Key Takeaways: Essential Elements from YHSI Planning & Brainstorming Session(s)."

Open questions for internal teams [this will be removed before publication]

"Bridges" appears without definition across multiple stages

Toledo's system map also lists "Bridges" under Access, Prevention/Diversion, and Permanent Housing categories without further detail on what "Bridges" is at each stage — same ambiguity flagged for Akron previously.

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