GH CAN Operations 11/2/16

GH CAN Operations Meeting 

Wednesday 11/2/16

1.      Welcome and Introductions

2.      Zero: 2016 Updates

a.      Recently Housed Households – Tenesha Grant

b.      Updates on Landlord Mitigation Funds

3.      What kind of trainings would staff like to see?

•        Narcan training (all 4 men’s shelters had already completed Narcan training recently- Open Hearth, McKinney, South Park Inn, and ImmaCare)
  ·        Mental Health Crisis Intervention
  ·        De-escalation training
  ·        SPDAT training
  ·        Motivational interviewing
  ·        Tenant rights
  ·        Landlord rights
  ·        Fair Housing training on reasonable accomodations
  ·        Fair housing training on under housing/over housing / unit size rules
  ·        Crisis prevention intervention
  ·        HMIS Re-training on the following items: closing bed nights, where full assessments are and how to use them, uploading documents.  There was a suggestion to do webinar style drop-in with Nutmeg to re-train on all of these items.  

4.      Shelter Waitlist Procedures

a.      Shelter Bed Refusals - see p. 4

b.      At the last outreach meeting, the 

5.      Youth CAN Assessments – John Lawlor

                      a. The Connection has recently opened up some programs in the Greater Hartford area specifically for youth.  Right now, they operate a youth hotline, so if any providers are working with youth between 18-24, they can call: 860-878-4042.

         In addition, the Connection is hoping to start hosting CAN assessments soon, specifically for youth.  

6.      Announcements

a.      At our next CAN Operations week’s meeting we will be celebrating our two-year CAN-niversary! 

b.      Cold Weather Planning is still in process- for next meeting we will have written protocols in place for the procedures that will begin December 1^st. 

c.      The guide for Case Managers to explain chronic homelessness was approved by the Leadership Committee last week. 

d.      This year’s Point In Time count has been tentatively scheduled for January 24^th for the sheltered count, and January 25^th for the unsheltered count. 

e.      The Youth Count is a week long effort that corresponds with the Point-in-Time Count to count all of those experiencing homelessness in Connecticut that focuses specifically on youth and young adults aged 24 and below.  This year’s upcoming Youth Count will take place around the same time as our PIT count.  Contact Steve.Hurley@journeyhomect.org for additional information, or to get involved in this year’s youth count.