GH CAN Leadership 3/8/17

Greater Hartford Access Network

Leadership Agenda

Wednesday, March 8^th, 2017

               Attended: Brian Baker, Steve Bigler, Sonia Brown, Crane Cesario, Cat Damato, Sarah Dimiao, Fred Faulkner, John Ferrucci, Rosemary Flowers, Nate Fox, Louis Gilbert, Tenesha Grant, Mollie Greenwood, Dave Martineau, Amy Robinson, Kathy Shaw, Barbara Shaw, Cathy Zeiner, and John Lawlor

1.      Welcome and Introductions

2.      Housing Updates

-Theresa says Housing authority have 20 open units and will be reopening their waitlist for clients who are verified chronically homeless.

-Mollie says application process is still not determined yet.

3.      Cold Weather Protocol Updates

a.      No-Freeze Closure Updates

-Nate says that No Freeze and Welcome Center will be closing at the end of the month. Hopes to re-open the Welcome Center in the summer.

-Sarah says she is concerned about the capacity of being able to offer case management for individuals and families for those that are temporarily placed in hotels.

-Crane suggests to get a list of clients who are staying at the NO Freeze who may be potentially chronic.

b.      Hotel Placement Updates

-Sarah says that Salvation Army is half way through their funding money to hotel families.

-Sarah says the problem is two families in the hotel that are the size of 6 and 5 and it is hard to find a shelter to take those larger size families.

-Sarah asks if Salvation Army should go through the rest of their funding to put families in hotels and CAN Leadership supports to continue to use the funding.

-Sara asks if she can have the families get into DSS shelters, but they do not have a residency.

-Crane says to use the shelter’s address for them to use to apply for DSS and contact Brenda Earle for further questions.

4.      Youth Engagement Team (YETI Committee)

-        John says the next YETI meeting will be coming up in a couple of weeks.

5.      Full SPDAT Training

a.      12 Opening for staff

-Mollie announces that the training will be on April 3^rd at the Lumsden Center

b.      5 openings for Train The Trainer

-        Mollie says this training should only be available for those who already have experience in how to do the VI-SPDAT and fully SPDAT.

6.      GH CAN Suburbs Sub-COC Meetings

-Crane suggests down the road that the city of Hartford to be its own CAN and the rest of the GH Region would be its own CAN.

-Crane says that we need to have a quarterly report for the GH Sub COC and the next Sub COC meeting will be in May.

-Crane asks if the COC meeting can be relocated to My Sisters Place on 76 Pliny Street.

7.      By Name List Maintenance

-Mollie says in the Operations Meeting they will be going over of how to find the By Name List on HMIS.

8.      Announcements

a.      Two weeks from now we will be having a Shelter Executive and RRH Meeting with Department of Housing, rather than the standard CAN Leadership Meeting. The meeting will take place from 12:00 – 2:15 PM at Sue Ann Shay Place, 76 Pliny St, Hartford. Please contact Brenda Earle with any questions.

b.      There is an upcoming training on Monday, April 3^rd organized by CCEH by Iain DeJong, focused on how to generate housing plans for challenging clients. See cceh.org to register.

c.      Advocacy day will take place on Wednesday, April 12^th, 2017 for the GH CAN.

d.      There is a new SAHMSA grant posted, Grants for the Benefit of Homeless Individuals. Applications are due 4/25/17.