Thursday, December 22, 2016

GH CAN Leadership 11/16/16

GH CAN Leadership Agenda
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
HAPPY TWO YEAR CAN-NIVERSARY!
1.      Welcome and Introductions
2.      Cold Weather Protocol Updates-Nate Fox
a.      At Operations we will be discussing in-depth relationship between shelter waitlist and No-Freeze
-Steve says that
-City of Hartford Rep- Spoke to the state about possibly using a state facility and that was not successful.
-City of Hartford-Aids Against Connecticut is the fiduciary for this funding
-Theresa says she is concerned about the number of staff being to run the No Freeze, especially if staff is employed by a temp agency.
-Theresa requests the e mail for what will be discussed at the next Cold Weather Meeting.
-Dave suggests to have churches have a rotation of being the No Freeze location.
- Nate says the reason to go through the temp agency because of the lack of funding to hire staff through Center Church.
- Theresa and other leadership members are concerned about going through Delta T of hiring staff.
-Nate says they plan on hiring 7 staff members and would be hired from 4pm-8am
-Nate says St.Peter Church street is up for lease, but have not heard back from anyone from the building.
-Sarah will ask the Citadel at Salvation Army Marshall House. Sarah will follow up with Nate.
-City of Hartfrd-suggests 1928 on Lafayette street.
-Nate says they are looking into that location as well..
3.      Zero: 2016 Updates
a.      Chronic Verified before October/barriers for current referrals.
-        Crane says we may only be getting 12 instead of 30 to CT BOS
-        Crane says she suggests to refer those clients to chapa
-        19 pre matched CT BOS and out of the 19 there are 6 of them that are ready and should be moved to chapa
-        Crane has requested to be able to pre approve clients, but has not been finalized
-        Theresa requests to have Navigators communicate immediately with housing providers when a client is document and verified ready.
-        For Pending referral client list. Everyone about number 13 on the list is beyond 90 days.
-        Matt says about 6 or 7 clients on the list have refused housing.
-        Everyone on this list from 1-34 would need to be housed before December 31 to reach the Campaign Zero.
-        Crane request for a referral date in the note section. Stating the date when the client was referred the different attempts.
b.      Chronic Priority List and Verifications/SPDATs needed
-Pre match verified chronic list is they have their homeless verification and disability verification.
- Theresa requests to meet with Journey Home in order to go over the list of clients.
-Clients on the priority list need to be document ready. All these clients are currently staying outside or they are in a shelter.
c.      Trends-Getting to Functional Zero
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d.      GH-CAN Landlord Risk Reduction Fund is now available
-        The fund is for $10,000.
4.      Subcommittee Reports
a.      Duty Service Coordinators
b.      Coordinated Outreach
c.      Coordinated Exit: Individuals
d.      Coordinated Exit: Families
e.      Rapid ReHousing
5.      Announcements
a.      My Sister’s Place TLP Program will stop accepting any new referrals effective November 30th, as they work to transition into being a PSH program.
b.      Access Benefits Online is starting back up again through CAHS.
c.      Justice Land Legal Aid-Services taking referrals-see flyer


-Send Theresa e mail about data quality report being cleaned out after 30 days.

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