Greater Hartford Coordinated Access Network
Leadership Committee
Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
Attended: Brian Baker (South Park
Inn), Steve Bigler (CRT), Sonia Brown (CRT), Kara Capobianco (DOH), Crane
Cesario (DMHA), Cat Damato (CRT), Cordelia Brady (The Open Hearth), Rosemary
Flowers (My Sister’s Place), Amanda Girardin (Journey Home), Judy Gough (Mercy
Housing), Tenesha Grant (Mercy Housing), Mollie Greenwood (Journey Home), Steve
Hurley (Journey Home), Steve MacHattie (ImmaCare), Dave Martineau (Mercy
Housing), Theresa Nicholson (Chrysalis Center), Tina Ortiz (CRT), Kathy Shaw
(My Sister’s Place), Barbara Shaw (Hands on Hartford), Clasine Jones (YWCA),
Gary Rhule (Hartford Health Dept.)
1. Welcome
and Introductions
2. Zero:
2016 Housing Data Updates See pg.2
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Theresa says there are 168 chronically homeless
remain not matched for housing.
3. GH
CAN Process and Timing for Housing Referrals
a.
TLP Conversion to RRH
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Sonyia says she is concerned about the amount of
time it is taking to find housing for her clients and wants to speed up the
process for housing.
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Crane says she is concerned about clients being
housing ready since landlords need more documents to be approved for housing.
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Theresa says she is concerned about the APRs to
make sure that agencies can continue to get more funding for next year.
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Amanda says what could help this process is
better hand offs of clients with housing case managers to housing services.
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Sonya says she wants clearer guidelines of how
many attempts of contact with clients in order to move on from that client.
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Kara proposes for housing matching meetings to
look at other options if scattered housing site will not work a client.
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Sonya says she is concerned about 3 particular
clients who are in TLP who do not meet the qualifications for RRH
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Theresa proposes a subcommittee to find a
solution for clients in TLP who do not meet qualifications for RRH
b.
Performance Metrics for Housing Programs
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Theresa says the reason for not being housed
should be a data component.
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Crane says to separate families and individuals
and do a first draft and give to agencies to figure out the issues.
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Crane says she wants to know the barriers for
people with documents and proposes to give the agencies the data points and
have the agencies to determine the components they need.
c.
Subcommittee Reports
a.
Coordinated Entry Dashboard from CCEH
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Kara says CAN staff can possibly be a solution
to help reduce the amount of CAN appointments being timed out.
b.
Duty Service Coordinators
c.
Coordinated Outreach
d.
Coordinated Exit
e.
Coordinated Exit- Tenesha
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Tenesha says she plans on attaching the bi name
list to the agenda and have people look at it ahead of time before the meeting.
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Crane suggests a separate time to case
conference clients for RRH individual clients
f.
Veteran Subcommittee
d.
Statewide Request for Leveraged Funding for
Review
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E mail Mollie for any questions or concerns.
Need update by end of next Friday to send budget.
e.
Security Deposit Guarantee Program Updates
f.
Announcements
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Theresa says that October from June the GH CAN
will be receiving $120,000 for CAN and includes cold weather protocol
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