Greater Hartford CAN Leadership Meeting: Family Assessments 3/30/2016

Greater Hartford CAN Leadership Meeting 3/30/16

Attended: Brian Baker of South Park Inn, Suzan Bibisi of Tabor House, Cat Damato of CRT, Tenesha Grant of Mercy Housing, Mollie Greenwood of Journey Home, Steve Hurley of Journey Home, Kathy Shaw of My Sister’s Place, Janet Bermudez of Hands On Hartford, Heather Pilarcik of South Park Inn, and Rosemary Flowers of My Sister’s Place

Wednesday March 30, 2016

1.      Block Assessment Schedule:

Proposed Schedule:

Day	Staff	Location	Help Needed?
Monday	·         My Sisters' Place	My Sisters’ Place, Pliny St
Tuesday	·         SAMH ·         CHR	Salvation Army, Washington St
Wednesday	·         YWCA ·         CHR	Center Church, Gold St	Parking
Thursday	·         SAMH ·         SAMH	Salvation Army, Washington St
Friday	·         Mercy	Hands On Hartford, Bartholomew Ave	Data Entry

a.       Locations

-          The locations for the family assessments was approved.

-          We discussed that duty services coordinators need to be clearly aware of, and comfortable with their role for the family assessment process, and need to be informed in any decision making process moving forward.

b.      Staffing

-          There is a proposal that navigators are not needed on Fridays for the time being and the staffing for the family assessments was approved

c.       Technology Needs/Data Entry

-          Tabor House offered to help with data entry.

-          Was suggested Tabor House can help with making phone calls.

-          Mercy House indicated they no longer needed assistance with data entry as they had previously thought they may.

-          Heather discussed the possibility of South Park Inn being able to assist with the data entry as needed.

d.      Target Start Date: Aprill 11^th

-          Everyone agrees on the target start date

2.      “Blitz” Assessments

a.       Phone calls needed for households on the list for an upcoming assessment

-          Mollie indicated that herself and Steve would be able to assist in making phone calls, and Kara has volunteered to assist as well.  ImmaCare, Chrysalis, and The Open Hearth had previously offered to assist with calling households as well.

-          Tabor House has made an offer to help with making phone calls.

b.      Extra capacity early in the week

-          It is proposed that Journey Home staff members Mollie, Steve, and potentially Kara from DOH could be around to help out at the locations of the assessments during the early parts of the week.

3.      Diversion Training will be available to any CAN assessment staff next week.  The purpose of this training is to make sure staff are all on the same page about diversion, how to conduct a CAN assessment, and what other community resources are available.  Two trainings will be offered.

a.       Thursday 1 PM – 3 PM at CRT’s Lumsden Center

-          Diversion appointment training sheet has been passed out to determine which staff members from each agency will attend.

-          All agencies filled out the training sheet for which staff members of their agency will attend next week’s diversion training.

b.      Thursday 9 AM – 12 PM at CRT’s Lumsden Center

-          Everyone has agreed with date, time, and location for the diversion training.

4.      Shelter Waitlist: Prioritization Criteria

-          Topic was not discussed at this time, and will be addressed at next week’s Leadership Meeting and Operations Meeting.