Greater
Hartford Coordinated Access Network
Operations
Agenda
Wednesday,
January 2nd, 2019
1.
Case Conferences –
Fred Faulkner
2.
Coordinated Entry
a.
Cold Weather Updates – Salvation Army Marshall
House
i. Capacity
is between 25-30. The folks who are
remaining at the Warming Center are refusing shelter options. We do have some folks who take a shelter
opportunity, but then return back to the Warming Center.
1.
There’s a small cohort of folks who are
severely high-need.
2.
There’s another cohort who were there last
winter and now have returned this winter.
3.
There’s another subsection who is renting
month-to-month in warmer months. In the
winter they make the decision to avoid the eviction and come into the Warming
Center.
a.
Sarah’s been encouraging rooms for rent and
encouraging the TEP program at The Open Hearth.
ii. Our family
system seems to be working really well.
We think that triage is empty at EHFS right now.
iii. There’s
been a ton of community support.
iv. Five 18
year olds have come through the warming center so far. Two were referred to shelters, three
self-resolved.
1.
Jose reported that there are more people who
are at the airport again this year.
b.
Elijah noted that the narrative with a lot of
the men that we serve, that they know the system so well that they aren’t
taking housing options that are available.
They’re turning down different things, probably because there are a
bunch of different shelters, and this is making our system less efficient. This may or may not be related to cold
weather season. The old narrative was
“this is your home” and now that “this is not your home” we’re seeing other
things. When folks have been given an
individual solution, they’re turning options down. It might take everyone awhile to change this
narrative.
i. Two days
in a row The Open Hearth had two beds available, and they’re hearing that folks
no-showed. It seems that in some
instances it’s a bit of a revolving door between Warming Center and shelters
for a couple of people.
ii. Do we want
to set a policy in place for some consistent standards? When we offer shelter beds, the Warming
Center staff aren’t offering beds to people with income, they’re working
immediately on Diversion.
1.
We started discussing folks who don’t have a
plan to exit shelters.
iii. Let’s
revisit this for discussion next week.
For the meeting two weeks out, Salvation Army can come with a list of
reasons folks are refusing.
3.
Coordinated Exit:
a.
Expectations for Document Readiness in
Shelters/Outreach – Sonia Brown
i. Explained
the week timeline. People seemed super
optimistic.
b.
Recently
Housed
c.
Housed
Data (see p.2)
4.
Leadership Updates – Crane Cesario
a.
Point In Time Count – Crane Cesario
i. PIT is on
the morning of January 23rd.
Every agency should be helping provide volunteers.
ii. CCEH is
trying to identify what type of volunteers they’re getting, including
identifying if folks are elected officials.
Doing this count well impacts our ability to get funding.
b.
Proposed Rapid ReHousing Standards – Crane Cesario
i. Send
feedback to Crane by noon on the 10th.
c.
ESLC Data updates – Mollie Greenwood
d.
New Meeting Schedule- Mollie Greenwood
5.
Announcements
a.
Due the successes in housing the most vulnerable
homeless households the state only has a very limited number of chronically
homeless households remaining to be housed. As a result, DOH has changed the
eligibility criteria for Security Deposit Guarantee Program from those
who are verified chronically homeless to anyone entering Permanent Supportive
Housing with a Section 8 voucher, RAP certificate or 811 subsidy. This also
includes those utilizing State of CT Section 8 Vouchers to “move on” from PSH.
b.
New Diversion appointments for homeless youth
will be starting very soon with our new CAN Youth Navigators.
c.
Four youth crisis beds coming online for
Salvation Army Marshall House.
d.
CAN Veteran Committee just started meeting. All Veteran-specific openings will now be
going through a centralized CAN list.
GH CAN Housing Data
|
Data Element
|
Number
|
Notes
|
|
Chronically homeless individuals housed
in 2015
|
102
|
This includes clients housed through
GH CAN programs as well as
through other subsidies or independent housing
|
|
Chronically homeless individuals housed
in 2016
|
211
|
This includes clients housed through
GH CAN programs as well as through
other subsidies or independent housing
|
|
Chronically homeless individuals housed
in 2017
|
179
|
This includes clients housed through
GH CAN programs as well as through
other subsidies or independent housing
|
|
Chronically homeless/potentially
chronic individuals housed in 2018
|
150
|
This includes clients housed through
GH CAN programs and bridges to
PSH as well as through other subsidies or independent housing
|
|
Total Chronically homeless individuals housed
in GH CAN
|
642
|
|
|
Verified Chronic Matched
|
34
|
|
|
Verified Chronic Not Yet Matched
|
9
|
We currently have 9 chronic verified
clients who have not yet been matched to housing.
|
|
Potentially Chronic Refusers
|
2
|
|
|
Verified Chronic Refusers
|
2
|
|
|
Not Chronic (Verified) Refuser
|
1
|
|
|
Potentially Chronic Matched
|
11
|
These households did not disclose a
disabling condition, and are matched to various programs.
|
|
Not Chronic Matched
|
8
|
|
|
Potentially Chronic Not Yet Matched
|
26
|
Right now we believe 26 households
have the chronic length of homeless history, but none of these individuals
have their homeless and disability verifications completed.
|
|
Individuals - Active – Not Matched
|
390
|
This is Enrolled in CAN, Enrolled in TH, and In an Institution
|
|
Families – Active – Not Matched
|
27
|
This is Enrolled in CAN and Enrolled in TH
|
|
Families - Verified Chronic – Not Matched
|
2
|
|
|
Families – Not Chronic (Verified) –
Matched
|
8
|
|
|
Families – Verified Chronic – Matched
|
2
|
|
SmartSheet Shelter
Priority List Data
|
Individual Men
|
Individual Women
|
Families – Waitlist Does Not Exist
|
|
58 Unsheltered/ In a Car
|
61 Unsheltered/In a Car
|
10 families are on our Family Stabilization List
|
|
74 Total
|
81 Total
|
|
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