Greater Hartford CAN Meeting Notes 1/27/16

Wednesday, January 27th
Next Meeting February 10th, 2016

1.       Welcome and Introductions

a.       We’re excited to welcome Kara Copabianco from the Department of Housing as a CAN Manager for Greater Hartford.

b.  We're also excited to introduce Mark Jenkins of Blue Hills Civic Association as our first hired GH CAN Navigator.

2.       Updates:

a.       2016 Point In Time Count- There were a lot of teams out this morning all across the Greater Hartford region conducting the census of the homeless.  We hope to have information soon with total numbers for households who were found outside.

b.      Zero: 2016/ Greater Hartford CAN Data – Matt Morgan (see p. 2) - In the months since beginning the 100 Day Campaign Journey Home has been collecting data around the number of chronically homeless households in our community, as well as information around housing the chronically homeless 

c.       Zero: 2016 Landlord Breakfast – We are still seeking a landlord to be a speaker at the Landlord Breakfast on February 23rd.  If you have a landlord in mind please contact Mollie Greenwood.

d.      Assessment Backlog: ImmaCare Switch to Drop-In – Luz Serrano and Aini Arciniega were able to tell us about the changes they've seen since ImmaCare switched to drop-in times at ImmaCare.  They told us that they are seeing more people coming than they had in the past, but have not been overwhelmed or seen a drastic increase in folks.

3.       GH CAN Participation and Scope of Meeting – Mollie Greenwood

a.       Participation Groups in GH CAN – Duty Service Coordinators, Housing Referral Group, Operations
      i.  Now that we've been having regular CAN meetings, the current structure of two hour meetings isn't the most effective use of time.  On a statewide level, we are developing by-laws and participation agreements for CAN, and locally we're trying to put together smaller action groups.  Moving forward, we're going to start having the Housing Referral Group as a weekly conference call, and will continue to have Coordinated Entry staff meet at the CAN meetings.  We are working to finalize some action groups, and may be shortening the time of CAN meetings in the future.

4.       Be Homeful Diversion Program through CCEH – Matt Morgan
                     a. The Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness has a new program that can assist homeless families who are literally homeless as well as families at imminent risk of homelessness.  To participate in the program, an agency would need to sign a 

5.       Announcements

a.       Please do not direct clients to call Journey Home- instead please have client case managers contact Journey Home with questions about housing status

b.      Times for Advocacy Days have changed- Greater Hartford CAN March 3^rd at 8:30 

c.       There may be some funding available to place households East of the River in hotels throughout the Cold Weather period, which would allow our other Cold Weather funding to last longer. 

d.      There will be donated goods available after the meeting for case managers to take available in the parking lot.

6.       Case Conferences -

a.       Recently Housed- 6 Chronically Homeless Individuals have been housed!

b.      Homeless Veterans

c.       Navigators

d.      Cases for Review

e.      Review of chronically homeless MIA client list

7.       Breakout Groups:

a.       Housing Referral Group

                                                               i.      Structure of Housing Referral Group

                                                             ii.      Updates

                                                            iii.      New Housing Referrals

b.      Coordinated Entry Group

                                                               i.      Updates to 211 protocols – Cold Weather

                                                             ii.      Drop-In scheduling – Assessment Backlog

                                                            iii.      CAN Data Quality