Greater Hartford Coordinated
Access Network Leadership Committee
And Opening Doors: Greater
Hartford Combined Meeting
Wednesday, June 15th,
2016
Greater Hartford CAN Leadership Items:
1.
Welcome and Introductions
2.
Mercy Housing Diversion Center – Dave Martineau
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Dave says that the Diversion Center should be
ready to be opened in mid July.
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Leadership proposes a plan to be set in place by
mid-July to figure out a schedule for CAN assessments at the Diversion Center.
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Leadership proposes in the future to have a northern
location and central location for a drop in center for CAN assessments
3.
When to use the VI-SPDAT – Kara Capobianco
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The Statewide CAN Leadership group had asked
that the state come together and determine some consistent timeframes about
when the VI-SPDAT is administered for the purpose of ensuring consistency
throughout different regions. As a
result, a working group was formed to discuss the ideal time to complete a
VI-SPDAT.
o National
best practice guidance has been that households should wait two weeks before
completing an assessment to ensure that the tool is only being used with folks
who will not self-resolve their situation
o Shelters
had concerns that holding off for a set period of time would reintroduce
subjectivity to the use of this assessment tool, rather than using it to level
the playing field for all clients in shelter.
There were concerns that holding off on doing the VI-SPDAT would be hard
to keep track of, and might also mean that many folks who are sheltered briefly
would not end up completing the VI-SPDAT.
o There
were concerns that if there was this additional deadline to keep track of that
it would add another burden to case managers that would be difficult to track
when someone was approaching this timeframe.
o In
some cases, if a household is literally homeless and has never completed a
VI-SPDAT, where they would complete a VI-SPDAT at the CAN assessment (like if
they had been staying out doors or in a hotel paid for by government or
charity) but in most cases VI-SPDATs are still being done at shelters, and in
some cases at the initial meeting/intake.
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Leadership has decided to keep administering VI
SPDATs in shelter and not wait for 2 weeks to administer them. Will send
feedback to CAN state leadership.
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Dave is proposing to purge the existing registry
list, and we should discuss this further at the next meeting.
4.
Participation Agreement Updates – Matt Morgan
5.
SmartSheets Updates – See attached updates
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Theresa has a question about what are some of
the difficulties being faced by the shelters- for example South Park Inn has
made more phone calls than other shelters, and yet have filled fewer beds.
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Steve says that one of the difficulties is that
some of the shelters do not do CAN assessments, so they are not able to accept
clients into their shelter who are stating they are unsheltered right after the
CAN assessment. While other shelters that do have open beds and are doing CAN
appointments are able to take that client who is high priority off of the
waiting list right away.
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Steve says another difficulty is that when
getting information on clients from the triage process there is missing
information if clients are banned from a shelter. So shelters have to spend
time going through their records to see if a client is banned, which takes some
time to do.
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South Park also indicated that there was still
some client choice coming into play, and if clients did not like the
opportunity being offered to them, they may be self-selecting not to come into
shelters.
Opening Doors Greater Hartford Items:
1.
USICH Brief/90 in
90/Zero 2016 – Matt Morgan
2.
Services and Vouchers through City of Hartford
Housing Authority – Matt Morgan
Announcements:
1.
The City of Hartford ESG Diversion Grant is
available today
2.
The Document Fair is this Friday! Please
encourage all your staff to make sure that any chronically homeless clients
they may be working with are able to attend this event and work towards gaining
documents needed for housing!
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