Developed by Wilder Research and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Supportive housing buildings provide shelter and services for low-income individuals and families with complex needs.
These sites can play an important role in improving the health of residents through building design elements, programs, and policies.
New/rehabbed supportive housing buildings can also serve as catalysts for other economic development.
This logic model provides a menu of typical inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes for community development and health organizations that work in the Supportive Housing field.
The outcomes listed in this example logic model link, whenever possible, to measures already collected through existing data sources and to measures that might require users to collect their own data through a survey, or other means. Measures with existing data sources are highlighted in blue.
Click on highlighted outcome measures to access existing data, or to identify question wording that can be used to collect your own outcome data. Use the model as a map for understanding how the work of community development and health organizations collaboratively leads to improved community health.
Inputs
Community plans
Evidence-based practice literature
Location, site
Source of funds
Staffing
Activities
Afterschool program activities
Community gardening
Cooking/nutrition classes
Employment training services
Financing on-site health promoting facilities (e.g. community garden, exercise facility, green space, walking path, playground equipment, community recreation room, commercial kitchen, wood flooring, washable window treatments, HEPA heating and ventilation system, low VOC and lead free paints)
Financing safety features
Financing supportive housing (new or rehab)
Fitness classes/activities
Mental health treatment services
Substance abuse treatment services
Using building materials that reduce asthma problems
Outputs
Affordable housing units (number of)
Afterschool program participants (number of)
Community garden plots (number of)
Community garden users (number of)
Community gatherings held (number of)
Community recreation room users (number of)
Cooking and nutrition class participants (number of)
Dollars invested (amount of)
Employment training program participants (number of)
Exercise facility/playground equipment users (number of)
Individuals housed (number of)
Jobs created/retained as a result of financing or programming (number of)
Mental health treatment program participants (number of)
Path miles (number of)
Residents who receive information on nutrition/healthy food preparation (number of)
Substance abuse treatment program participants (number of)
Walking path users (number of)
Shorter-term outcomes
Access to exercise opportunities increases
Access to mental health services increases
Asthma trigger exposure decreases
Employment skills increase
Food security increases
Housing quality improves
Knowledge of nutrition and healthy food preparation increases
Parenting skills improve
Resident stability increases
Medium-term outcomes
Adverse childhood experiences decrease
Asthma problems among children decrease
Caregiving burden decreases
Consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables increases
Health and well-being self-reports improve
Physical activity increases
School attendance increases
School mobility of children decreases
Sense of community (social connectedness) increases
Social-emotional skills of children improve
Substance abuse decreases
Longer-term outcomes
Academic proficiency scores increase
Crime rate decreases
Diabetes rate decreases
Disability rates for chronic conditions decrease
Emergency room admissions decrease
Employment rate increases
Graduation rate increases
Health disparities decrease
Homelessness decreases
Housing cost burden decreases
Mental health problems decrease
Obesity rate decreases
Preventable hospitalizations decrease
Property values increase
School readiness improves
Voter turnout rate increases
Workforce quality increases
MetricsForHealthyCommunities.org was developed by Wilder Research and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.