GH CAN Leadership Meeting 10/21/2020

 

GREATER HARTFORD COORDINATED ACCESS NETWORK MEETING AGENDA

Follow Up Meeting

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 via Zoom

 1PM – 2:15PM

 

1.       Welcome and Introductions – 5 minutes

2.       COVID – 19 – 5 minutes

a.       Barbara, HOH – day center is now open. Monday to Thursday. Monday till 7pm and all other days till 2pm. Limiting number of clients entering. People are following social distant rules. Working on ventilation system. Added back in the nursing services and phone usage services.  

b.       Liany, COH – receiving questions about isolation space. State has set up community coordinators for GH is CRT.  Unsheltered homeless, can be assisted with isolation space. Working on additional details. The city at this time is not doing an isolation space, however if we need it the city will look into it. Will assist with food. Planning on hoteling those who need isolation space. City is getting ready to open isolation space in GH if needed.

c.       Crane, State of CT and DMHAS – new state restrictions for travel. Up to 40 states at the moment. DMHAS is continuing telework until Dec. 31^st.

d.       Jose, McKinney – one person came into office that said he was exposed to COVID, results came in today and he was negative. Oct 27^th testing at hotel will be done.

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3.       Cold Weather/Winter Planning Updates – Lisa Cretella – 10 minutes

a.       Cold Weather meeting planned for Thursday, October 22 1-3pm invite from Kelly Gonzalez 

b.       Working on extreme / cold weather protocols for 211.  Few gaps in the system at the moment. Will DOH fund triage proposal. Money for budget waiting to be approved.

c.       Once warming center is full, will triage

d.       Dec 1 opening

e.       City has asked for more money for hotels. Budget is higher than normal. Asking for additional funds. Funds for hotel were based on Lisa and Kelly’s suggestions.

f.        Each region needs to have a plan (the hope)

g.       If there is a need before Dec 1^st, the city has a plan

h.       extreme / cold weather protocol will open a warming center earlier than Dec 1^st

i.         city is having conversations about identification for those seeking shelter.

j.         Expecting challenges due to COVID

k.       Provide feedback to statewide

l.         Bryan’s (Cornerstone) team is working on suburb warming center. Will provide more information to the CAN when he has more clarification

m.      Liany can share data of where clients are coming from

n.       Town of Enfield is meeting with surrounding towns to discuss plans around diversion. Receiving feedback from surrounding towns, people want to stay in current town.

4.       Outreach RFP Updates – Amanda Gordon – 5 minutes

a.       DOH has an RFP outreach – 230K for GH, JH will receive 300K for homeless outreach

b.       Combined RFP, received 3 proposals

c.       Selection committee met yesterday after scoring proposal

d.       Selected Hands on Hartford. GHHR and Wheeler as sub-contractors.

e.       Barbara – came together with two partners for a program, Wheeler and GHHR. Will canvas to identify those who are not connected to the service system and by referral. Goal is to make positive impacts. Outreach and canvas schedule will include Sat and Sun early and mid-evenings. Will plan to start early and late hours.  Will cover areas that are not currently covered. Staff is quarter time employees, FTE nurse, FTE health care liaison, 2 part time outreach ambassadors. Stefanie Boyce will be greatly involved. Will coordinate closely with the CAN. Alexis from JH will be working with team.

f.        Need letter of support – Amanda can send a draft letter to be signed on behalf of the CAN. Anyone opposed please email Crane by 5pm today. Crane.Cesario@ct.gov

g.       5 person selection committee that made the decision

5.       Local Shared Housing Trainings – Sofina Begum – 3 minutes

a.       Friday, October 23 - Community of Practice Session # 1 - Client Messaging / system process 

b.       Wednesday, November 4^th - Community of Practice Session # 3 - Roommate Matching/ Housing Stabilization

c.       Sofina.Begum@journeyhomect.org

 

6.       CHESS Program Training Updates– Beacon Health – 3 minutes

a.       No updates today.

b.       Waiting on information from DSS

7.       Statewide/ESG-COVID Housing Effort/FLASH /Prevention Update–Andrea Hakian, Kara Zichichi, Lisa Quach, Matt Morgan, Lionel Rigler, and Stephanie Corbin – 10 minutes

a.       No major updates

b.       CHR and Mercy are fully staffed, everyone has been on boarded

c.       1 client to be housed through FLASH plan – total of 3 clients from Mercy

8.       Future Agenda Items or Additional Announcements – 2 minutes

a.       Statewide CAN/Homeless Delivery System Workgroup – Feedback to be sent to Matt Morgan

9.       Brainstorm ideas to continue work, how will we make progress, look at data, how are we going to use a racial justice lenses

a.       JH identified 4 data – stopped due to COVID. We can work toward a dashboard.

b.       Look at data as is now and make a plan for the future. Want to see racial disparities in our data.

c.       ACT – lots of groups are looking into this. Looking into race, health. Diversity trainings are being provided. Look at trends. Look at what has been done to learn from each other.

d.       3^rd cohort is being determined for Race Equity Summit. Applications are available.

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