Greater Hartford Coordinated
Access Network
Wednesday, February 24th,
2016
1. Welcome and Introductions
a. Lisa
Quach is our new coordinated exit coordinator at Journey Home.
2. Zero: 2016
a.
Recently Housed Clients
i.
New trifold board to keep track of everyone who
is housed this year
ii.
One client was housed from ImmaCare
b.
Landlord Breakfast Success – Rubi Alegria
i.
20 landlords attended and several speakers
presented at the breakfast. If we continue to do that, we will have
partnerships to help house all 125 chronically homeless individuals.
ii.
Could have been better, CRT was a good location
for the breakfast
iii.
Since yesterday, 2 landlords have emailed with
units available
iv.
Keeping connections
v.
Always going to be one difficult one
c.
Diversion Training Updates – Tamara Womack
i.
Different outlook to diversion and how to handle
diversion
ii.
Diversion is empowering a person is in imminent
risk of homelessness to identify ways to prevent homelessness, get them out of
the shelters and have an empowering outlook
iii.
Role-play ways to empower clients, we’re there
as mediators to keep them from shelters
iv.
Paddington-Marmalade drive- Fairfield county-
open up account for greater Hartford CAN, CCEH fundraiser Be Homeful, create
funds for flexible diversion
v.
Can start one yourself- similar to gofundme
vi.
Cleveland has lots of money for diversion
vii.
Reality testing- build empathy for clients,
realistic things we can do to get person back home
viii.
2 things you have- housing history, rapid
rehousing
3.
CT HMIS
Updates – Mollie Greenwood
a.
VI-SPDAT 2.0 is now live in CT HMIS
i.
127 chronically homeless have been housed.
ii.
125 need to be housed this year.
1.
53 individuals are on their way to housing.
2.
72 individuals have not been referred.
b.
Registry Functionality coming to CT HMIS
i.
Things are changing in the last week
ii.
VI-SPDAT 1 does not exist in HMIS
iii.
VI SPDAT 2 take 7-8 minutes and translates
easier to full SPDAT
iv.
CAN assessment- CAN intake, includes extra
subset of questions used to organize registry
v.
Click on VIPDAT- vispdat summary screen, current
and legacy
1.
Legacy- old VI SPDAT
2.
VISPDAT 2 button
vi.
CCEH will be releasing- will notice changes on February
25.
vii.
If you have any questions, please bring them to
Nutmeg.
c.
Bulletin Board Updates in CT HMIS
4.
Coordinated
Entry – Upcoming Blitz to Eliminate Backlog – Matt Morgan
a.
Individuals have already done a VI-SPDAT, cancel
CAN appoiinment
b.
Shelters have been doing drop in times
c.
Some shelters have been doing it as part of case
management
d.
Leadership meeting
5.
Case
Conferencing – Lisa Quach
a.
Housing providers meeting every Tuesday
conference call
b.
List of people who have been returned to the CAN
c.
Disability verification- can be signed by staff
member, need documentation in 45 days
d.
Several people on the MIA list have been found
and some are on their way to being housed
e.
If it’s more than a month that someone cannot be
located that they need to be brought to attention
6. Announcements:
a. The
time for the Greater Hartford CAN Advocacy Days is March 3rd from 8:30AM-10:30AM. Contact Alison.Scharr@journeyhomect.org
with questions, or if you’d like to participate.
i.
Speakers from providers and Andrea will be
talking about rapid rehousing,
ii.
Need a big turnout of people to show
legislators that there are a lot of people who care about homeless issues
iii.
Any clients who would be willing to go,
anyone who can bring clients, please bring clients
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