Greater Hartford Coordinated Access Network
Operations
Agenda
Wednesday,
October 4th, 2017
1.
Welcome and Introductions
i. Crane
Cesario - DMHAS
ii. Roger
Clark - ImmaCare
iii. Stephanie
Corbin – Mercy Housing and Shelter
iv. Anita
Cordero - ImmaCare
v. Sarah DiMaio-
Salvation Army Marshall House
vi. Fred
Faulkner – The Open Hearth
vii. Angel
Fernandez – The Open Hearth
viii.
Gerilyn Maciel – Salvation Army Marshall House
ix. Andre
McGuire – McKinney Shelter
x. Heather
Pilarcik – South Park Inn
xi. Natalie
Ramos - ImmaCare
xii. Kyren
McCorey – The Open Hearth
xiii.
Luz Serrano - ImmaCare
xiv. Jose Vega –
McKinney
xv. Wendy
Walker – McKinney
xvi. William
St. Denis – Veterans Inc
xvii.
Ronald Stokes - McKinney
2.
Next Steps from Iain DeJong’s Training
i. Case
managers should reassess their role and that the main focus should be housing.
ii. Crane
brought up matching through automation but one of the barriers is HMIS data
being incorrect. Geri said we are not dealing with cookie cutter people and
that we have been doing a good job keeping our biases separate from matching.
Case conference becomes deficit based focus instead of strength based because
we couldn’t always trust the data in CT HMIS. Bringing clients into case
conference can change the dialogue a lot.
3.
Case Conferences – Fred Faulkner
a.
178552 – South Park Inn
b.
188402 – The Open Hearth
c.
110251 – CHR Manchester
4. Coordinated Exit:
a.
Returns
to Homelessness from CAN Housing Programs – Lisa Quach
i. Journey Home is tracking clients
who are failing out of housing. Every two weeks, an inactive report is pulled
from HMIS to see who has new enrollments.
ii. Lisa asked providers to let us
know of anyone else who has failed out of housing but is not on the list.
b.
Recently
Housed – Lisa Quach
i. AP #164421
ii. HW #89409
iii. BD #91792
c.
Housing
Data – see p.2 and attached Trends Document –Lisa Quach
i. There has been a 70% decrease in
chronic homelessness since March 2015. A “Trends” report is completed on a
quarterly basis to track clients aging into chronic homelessness.
5.
Coordinated Entry
a.
Shelter Entry Process Meeting tomorrow at
10:30 AM at Journey Home – Steve Hurley
i. For those
who were involved with the initial meeting about shelter entry process, there
will be a meeting to discuss current process at JH.
6.
Leadership Updates – Mollie Greenwood
a.
Changes to SIF program. Present cases at CCT.
b.
Discussed cold weather. Put an ask out for a
van from one of the CAN agencies or faith-based group who could assist with
transportation to warming center.
c.
Appointments for CAN assessments are being
scheduled out beyond the 24-48-hour window due to shortage of staff. Please do
not have clients call Stephanie Corbin directly at the MDC.
7.
Announcements
a.
Rapid ReHousing and Family Matching Meetings
will have a minor adjustment of times moving forward. RRH will meet from 1:15-2:30 and Family
Matching will meet from 2:45-4:00.
b.
If you are working with someone who reports
being a veteran, please call CRT’s Supportive Services for Veteran Families
(for both families and individuals
c.
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. The event will take place on 11/2/17.
d.
Security Deposit Guarantee Program is only
available for chronically homeless clients at this time.
e.
The next Cold Weather Planning meeting will take
place on Monday, September 25th at 3:00 PM at Journey Home.
f.
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