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10.4.3 Equitable Access <br />RCW 43.185C.185 requires that Commerce promote racial equity within homeless service <br />system program access. Commerce will support communities in improving equitable access by <br />publishing equitable access data (see below) and developing resources and facilitating activities <br />focused on data literacy, barriers to equitable access, and strategies that improve equitable <br />access. These resources and activities include grantee workshops, one-on-one technical <br />assistance opportunities, data visualizations, trainings and toolkits. <br />To serve as baseline data and as a tool to assess the impact of equitable access strategies, <br />Commerce will maintain the Washington Balance of State Equitable Access Dashboard that <br />compares the race and ethnicity of households entering the homeless system as measured <br />using HMIS data to the race and ethnicity of the homeless and unstably housed population as <br />reported in the Snapshot of Homelessness Report (tables 6 and 8 in the report). At this time, <br />this will not be considered a formal performance measure and will not be included in <br />performance monitoring. However, communities are still expected to use this data to identify <br />underserved populations, assess the impact of their access strategies, and ultimately work to <br />improve equitable access as needed. <br />10.4.4 Subgrantee Agreements <br />Housing outcome performance requirements must be included in CHG subgrantee agreements <br />for applicable intervention types. Grantees may customize subgrantee performance <br />requirements by establishing agency specific benchmarks which take into account past <br />performance, facility type, target population and other variables. <br />50 <br />