Greater Hartford
Coordinated Access Network
Operations Agenda
Wednesday, June 14th,
2017
Attended: Janet Bermudez, Crane Cesario, Roger Clark, Tylon Crump,
Rochelle Currie, Catherine Demato, Sarah DiMaio, Fred Faulkner, Angel
Fernandez, Mollie Greenwood, Kelly Gonzalez, Amber Higgins, Steve Hurley,
Gerilyn Maciel, Natalie Ramos, Alise Rangasammy, Chris Robinson, Amy Robinson,
Maryilyn Rossetti, Iris Ruiz, Luz Serrano, Colette Slover, Jose Vega, Ymonne Wilson,
Ben Hurley, Klaudia Lobeska, and Kelanda Santos
1.
Welcome and Introductions
a. Leadership
Updates – Mollie Greenwood
a. Mollies
says DHMAS had discussed their community support program.
1. Mollie
says the conversation was about the community support program help cover the
gap for the CABHI program closing in the fall.
2. Mollies
says it may not cover all of the gaps.
b. Crane
says CAN Leadership is looking for a new chair for CAN Leadership
a. HA - An outreach worker will be connected to this household.
b. Anonymomus Client - Journey Home will reiterate that until we know information about current homelessness, this household cannot be determined as eligible for homeless programs.
c. SF - Klaudia will work with CRMHC to get more information about this household.
3.
Coordinated Exit:
a.
Recently Housed -
Lisa Quach
b.
Successful and
Unsuccessful Exits from CAN Housing Programs (see p.3) – Mollie Greenwood
i. Rapid Rehousing Success Rates Data – Amber Higgins
1.
Amber says served
601 households in GH CAN.
2.
Amber says we
provided $103,000 for security deposit and the average assistance is $201,000.
3.
Amber says 90
percent of people who go into RRH are successful and only 1 percent of clients
went back into homelessness.
c.
Disabling Condition
Verification Attachment Forms – Lisa Quach
i. Any households who receive Social Security or Veteran’s
Disability, and who are using documentation from Social Security or the VA as
the households disabling condition should continue to work on obtaining
specific diagnosis information whenever possible. The Disabling Condition form is sufficient to
match a household to housing, but the majority of our housing programs are required
to obtain information about what the specific disabling condition is before
they can move forward with intake.
d.
Housing Matching
Data – see p.2
e.
Domestic Violence
Clients
Sarah all the clients they took in this week at Marshall House were
domestic violence situations. 60 percent of SAMH shelter has clients that have
domestic violence situations. The clients are homeless due to domestic violence
issues.
i. Iris says their
phone calls have increased and do not have space.
ii. Iris says an advocate from Interval House can go over
to SAMH to work with the client to figure out a plan.
iii.
Amber suggests a training on domestic violence.
iv.
Iris says Interval House is over capacity.
4.
Coordinated Entry:
a.
Changes to Shelter
Priority List - Steve Hurley
i. Steve
says Smartsheet training for shelter providers will be available on Thursday
6/29 from 9-10am and Friday 6/30 from 9-10 am at Journey Home.
5.
Announcements
a. Hands
On Hartford and a number of community partners are working on planning the Day
of Sharing and Caring, and needs lots of help planning and pulling off the
event. If you’re interested in assisting, please contact swalker@handsonhartford.org
b. Salvation
Army is offering a Human Trafficking Training at Capitol Region Mental Health Center
Thursday, 9/28 from 1-4 PM
c. The
time for the Rapid ReHousing Matching Meetings has changed- Rapid ReHousing
matching will now begin at 1:15 PM and go until 2:45 PM.
[MG1]Mollie
to add case notes
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