Greater Hartford
Coordinated Access Network
Operations Agenda
Wednesday, April 5th,
2017
176 Pliny Street,
Hartford
Attended: Brian
Baker- South Park Inn, Roger Clark - ImmaCare, Tylon Crump – CRT SSVF, Rochelle
Currie – The Connection, Collette Slover – Charter Oak Health Center, Catherine
Damato - CRT, Jacqueline Farmer- Veterans Inc., Fred Faulkner – The Open Heart,
Kyren McCrorey – The Open Hearth, John Ferrucci – South Park Inn, Mollie
Greenwood – Journey Home, Amber Higgins – CHR Manchester, Steve Hurley –
Journey Home, Nichole Milton – CHR Enfield, Matt Morgan – Journey Home, Lisa
Quach – Journey Home, Wendy Walker – CRT McKinney, Alise Rangasammy - ImmaCare,
Madeline Trinidad – Salvation Army Marshall House, Kelanda Santos – My Sisters’
Place, Iesha Lopez – CRT McKinney, Robert Weatherington – CRT McKinney, Monique
Shand - YWCA, Klaudia Lobeska – CRT East Hartford Family Shelter, and Manuel
Cadenas – Catholic Charities
1. Welcome
and Introductions
2. Coordinated
Exit:
a. Housing
Data – see p. 2
b. Recently
Housed – Lisa Quach
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Wendy asks about the status of permanent supportive
housing openings.
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Mollie says that due to the zero campaign 16
ending the amount of available permanent supportive housing has slowed down.
c. Bridging
Families – Mollie Greenwood
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Mollie says that the GH CAN community rarely has
verified chronic families and it looks like for families who are not successful
in rapid re housing they can be bridged to permanent support housing. The New
Haven CAN has already started this process with their families and the GH CAN
might be doing this in the next couple of months.
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Amber asks how to determine which family gets
permanent housing between a family in a shelter for 10 months or a family that
is failing out of rapid rehousing.
o
This will need to be discussed and determined by
the RRH committee on a case by case basis, and ultimately we will need to
determine how we will prioritize households.
d. Failing
out of CAN Housing Programs – Lisa Quach
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Mollie says if people know if clients are
failing out of their housing program to bring them up during housing matching
meetings. Therefore, the CAN create a strategy to prevent the client from
failing out of the program.
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Lisa says that Tenesha at Mercy would like to
discuss about chronic clients who are close to failing to discuss them at the
end of the month housing matching meeting, at the in-person meeting.
e. Full
SPDATs – Update from trainings
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Because there have been so many full SPDATs completed
recently, keeping track of who has completed a full SPDAT is becoming more
complex. Lisa asks when people are
completing the VI SPDAT to upload them into HMIS, so everyone can see that
particular client has already completed a VI SPDAT. Also, send the last two
pages that have scoring summaries to Lisa.
3. Coordinated
Entry:
a. Households
without phones, visit Mercy – Steve Hurley
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Steve says that during CAN appointments when
clients are added to the shelter priority list and do not have a phone they can
put Mercy’s phone number down as their primary contact information. Clients are
encouraged to go to Mercy to get breakfast and lunch to get food and check to
see their status on the shelter priority list.
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Jacqueline asks about assurance phones.
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Mollie says Assurance has been inconsistent with
scheduling and the proper paper work.
4. Outreach
Programs in Greater Hartford: PATH Team – Malika Nelson
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JeNaya says to make sure when completing PATH
referral to have a phone number available and if not write the locations for
where the client is during different hours during the day. Also to fill out the
description section of the form to help the PATH team find the clients.
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JeNaya asks about third party verifications from
soup kitchens?
o
Lisa says you can accept verifications when
finding clients at soup kitchens as long as the letter has detailed information
about the client such as the number of days being there or wearing the same
clothes every time appearing.
5. Charter
Oak Shelter Clinic Hours – Collette Slover
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Collette says Charter Oak does have urgent hours
available, which the urgent care card will be distributed during the meeting.
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John asks if Charter Oak offers services at
Mercy Diversion Center.
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Collette says yes they are there on Tuesdays and
Thursdays.
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John suggests Charter Oak has access to the
shelter priority list to see if people on the priority list who are not in
shelter can get access to services.
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Collette says Charter Oak can provide primary
care to clients even when they are permanently housed.
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John suggests Charter Oak provide a dvd to show
clients the services that Charter Oak can provide.
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Lisa suggests that MANA could be another
location where a lot of the homeless population go to get food.
6. Announcements
a. Advocacy
Day will take place Wednesday, April 12th.
b. There
are now 3 full SPDAT trainers in the GH CAN. If someone at your
organization needs training in the full SPDAT, please email mollie.greenwood@journeyhomect.org
GH CAN Housing Data
Data Element
|
Number
|
Notes
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Chronically homeless households housed in 2015
|
102
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This includes clients housed through GH CAN programs as
well as through other subsidies or independent housing
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Chronically homeless households housed in 2016
|
211
|
This includes clients housed through GH CAN programs as
well as through other subsidies or independent housing
|
Chronically homeless households housed in 2017
|
57
|
This includes clients housed through GH CAN programs as
well as through other subsidies or independent housing
|
Total Chronically homeless households housed in GH CAN
|
370
|
|
Verified Chronic Matched
|
63
|
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Verified Chronic Not Yet Matched
|
11
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We currently have 11 chronic verified clients who have not
yet been matched to housing.
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Potentially Chronic Matched
|
0
|
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Potentially Chronic Not Yet Matched
|
65
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Right now we believe 65 households have the chronic length
of homeless history, but none of these individuals have their homeless and
disability verifications completed.
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