GH CAN Operatiosn 5/17/17

Greater Hartford Coordinated Access Network

Operations Agenda

Wednesday, May 17^th, 2017

Attended: Alicia Akers, Janet Bermudez, Maribet Carrion, Crane Cesario, Michelle Muan, Roger Clark, Rochelle Currie, Fred Faulkner, Angel Fernandez, Bryan Flint, Kelly Gonzalez, Mollie Greenwood, Steve Hurley, Gerilyn Maciel, Nichole Milton, Matt Morgan, Lisa Quach, Heather Pilarcik, Chris Robinson, Amy Robinson, Natalie Ramos, Luz Serrano, Alise Rangasammy, and Leslie Wilper

1.      Welcome and Introductions

2.      Case Conferences – Fred Faulkner

a.      Cornerstone shelter brought a client up for discussion, determination was that Cornerstone staff would contact Atlas Behavioral Health and request on-site behavioral health services for this household.

c.      Other cases?

a. Lisa says she has a client who has voucher with eviction and with year old child who has a wheel chair.

b. Lisa is looking to find landlord that will take voucher and has wheel chair accessibility.

c. Amy says Hart Property would work with them but may not have wheelchair.

3.      City of Hartford Municipal IDs (see handouts) – Janice Castle

a. Janice says the community engagement department has access to the Lariby Fund and is only for back rent and limit is $1,000. They also have access to five pieces of furniture for free and only have to be Hartford resident. Not sure if furniture can be delivered.

b. Janice says the municipal ID program and will have final brochure available by Friday.

c. Residents must be able to prove residency to be eligible.

d. Records go to vendor and not to city of Hartford. Therefore, there are no records kept when applying for ID.

e. Client can get a municipal ID from city of Hartford if they are current residents.

f. If card cannot get delivered they will be delivered back to the community engagement department office.

g. Janice asks if there are any other languages need to be available in other languages to contact her.

h. Janice says program will be open on Friday.

i. Jose asks if they can waive the fee on the homeless population

ii. Janice says no they can’t waive the fee.

iii. Wendy asks if this ID can be used to get access to other vidal documents.

iv. Janice says that is a working process, but the Police Department ad DSS can accept the ID.

v. Amy suggests to send copy of brochure to Mollie and she can send that information through e mail.

vi. Roger suggests to add Polish translation for form.

i. Lisa asks if they will be reaching out to local check providers.

k. Janice says they are waiting for them to get back to them.

l. Wendy asks if ID could help clients get phones.

m. Janice says she can look into that.

4.      Updates from CAN Leadership – Mollie Greenwood

a. Crane introduced some of the work that she and Matt have been doing to analyze the family homelessness data in GH CAN.  As a community, as we try to figure out how to reconfigure our resources, we may need to ask questions like "How can we reduce length of stay in family shelters to move families in need of shelter in more quickly?"  She and Matt will continue working on this data.

b. Crane says CAN might think about reconfiguring the available shelter beds.

i. Crane says that according to HUD PSH programs now needs verification of homelessness 24 hours before receiving certificate.

ii. Crane says we need to make sure this needs to be communicated to the CAN.

iii. Heather says creating a template internally at each will make this process easier.  At South Park Inn, shelter staff have been used to generating homeless verification letters, and having a template for each shelter may make this process easier to sustain.

c. Mollie says Theresa has a connection with a furniture moving provider that would cost 75 dollars an hour.

d. Mollie says that utilities assistance may be available from Hands on Hartford in the upcoming months, which may help reduce one of the barriers to housing we have discussed lately.

e. Mollie says the Rapid Rehousing referral process has been a challenge in the past few weeks.  Right now, CAN leadership is working on a list of questions for case managers to help determine about who may be a good candidate for rapid re housing.

f. Mollie requested that for next CAN Operations agencies have waitlist users to attend the next meeting because the subject will be about improving the shelter waitlist.

5.      Coordinated Exit:

a.      Recently Housed and Housing Data – Lisa Quach

6.      Coordinated Entry: Shelter Waitlist – Steve Hurley - This item was tabled to next week as a result of time limitations.

7.      Announcements

a.      The CT Coalition to End Homelessness will be hosting their Annual Training Institute on Thursday, May 18^th.  Register online at www.cceh.org.

b.      There are openings available in this month’s full-day CAN Training on Friday, 5/19.  Email mollie.greenwood@journeyhomect.org to register.

c.      Dinner in the Park will take place Saturday, May 27 at Bushnell Park at 5:00 PM.

d.      The Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Preference is open again.

GH CAN Housing Data

Data Element	Number	Notes
Chronically homeless households housed in 2015	102	This includes clients housed through GH CAN programs as well as through other subsidies or independent housing
Chronically homeless households housed in 2016	211	This includes clients housed through GH CAN programs as well as through other subsidies or independent housing
Chronically homeless households housed in 2017	85	This includes clients housed through GH CAN programs as well as through other subsidies or independent housing
Total Chronically homeless households housed in GH CAN	398
Verified Chronic Matched	58
Verified Chronic Not Yet Matched	10	We currently have 10 chronic verified clients who have not yet been matched to housing.
Potentially Chronic Matched	0
Potentially Chronic Not Yet Matched	51	Right now we believe 51 households have the chronic length of homeless history, but none of these individuals have their homeless and disabling condition forms completed.