Greater Hartford
Coordinated Access Network
Operations Agenda
Wednesday,
September 20th, 2017
Attended: Sam
Antunes (CHR), Janet Bermudez (Hands on Hartford), Manuel Cadena (Catholic
Charities), Anita Cordero (ImmaCare), Crane Cesario (DHMAS), Cat Damato (CRT),
Sarah DiMaio (Salvation Army Marshall House), Fred Faulkner (The Open Hearth),
Mollie Greenwood (Journey Home), Amber Higgins (CHR), Steve Hurley (Journey
Home), Klaudia Lobeska (East Hartford Shelter), Gerilyn Maciel (Salvation Army
Marshall House), Andre McGuire (McKinney Shelter), Maureen Perez (McKinney
Shelter), Lisa Quach (Journey Home), Amy Robinson (VA), Kelanda Santos (My
Sisters’ Place), Luz Serrano (ImmaCare), Rob Soderberg (CHR), Wendy Walker
(McKinney Shelter) Shawn Decker (Inter Community), Amber Freeman (Chrysalis),
Rikka Racelis (Chrysalis), and David Susanin (CRMHC)
1. Welcome
and Introductions
2. Case
Conferences – Fred Faulkner
188522 - EHFS
195328 - SAMH
3. Community
Support Program Presentations
a. Chrysalis
Center – Amber Freeman
a) Amber
says Community Support Program is a skilled building case management program
and the goal is to get clients to live self-sufficiently.
b) She
says the client must have a mental health diagnosis and actively be seeing a
clinician.
c) The
program will help clients with community supports to help them live
independently. CSP staff hosts groups, refers out to other providers in the
community, and works with existing therapy supports to help the household.
d) The
referral process for their program has to be referred by a clinician and must
have completed a recent bio-psycho social evaluation to see if client is right
fit for program. The therapist can complete the CSP application and fax it over
to Amber at Chrysalis. She generally has a couple of weeks to review the
document but if staff send her an email to notify her of the referral, she will
prioritize looking at it.
e) Amber
Higgins asks if there is a waitlist.
a. Amber
says there is currently no waitlist.
b. Capitol
Region Mental Health Center – David Susanin
a) David
says in order to for clients to get services they have to be a client of DHMAS
Capital Region in Hartford, West Hartford, and Avon.
b) David
says clients have to be enrolled in DHMAS Capital Region. If clients are not
currently clients on CRMHC, the CSP team will try to refer the household to one
of the other CSP providers in the community.
c) David
says their Community Support Program tries to get clients into the program in a
day or two after they have an assessment.
d) Clients must have mental health or substance abuse
to eligible regardless of income and insurance.
e) The
program also takes clients who cycle in and out of hospitals.
f) David
says they help clients fill out housing applications and help them find clothes
and sometimes offer security deposits.
g) David
says their program they try to help clients to live independently.
c. InterCommunity
– Shawn Decker
a) Shawn
says their Community Support Program helps clients to live independently. The
client must have a major mental health diagnosis in order to be eligible.
Unlike the two other Community Support programs, households do not need to
already be connected to ongoing clinical services to be eligible for this
program. Households who are seeking CSP services can go to InterCommunity’s
walk-in hours to get an assessment for CSP.
b) Shawn
says they encourage clients to go to group sessions before being assigned to a
case manager.
c) Shawn
says if clients have a section 8 voucher they will help the client find an
apartment.
d) The
waitlist for the program very from month to month, but the average waitlist
time is six to eight weeks.
e) Shawn
says they have a soft catchment area which is East Hartford, Glastonbury, Rocky
Hill, Marlborough, Hartford, Manchester, and New Britain.
4. Leadership
Updates – Mollie Greenwood
a) Mollie
says Salvation Army Marshall House will be opening a No Freeze Shelter for
individual women and families on November 1st.
b) Cat
says she will be the Hartford COC at part time capacity and will be the lead
for the PIT Count.
5.
Coordinated Exit:
a.
Recently Housed –
Lisa Quach
b.
Housing Data – see
p.2
a) Mollie
says there are only 5 verified chronic not yet matched to housing.
6. 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.
The event will take place on 11/2/17
b. Salvation
Army is offering an Anti-Human Trafficking Training at Capitol Region Mental
Health Center Tuesday, 9/26 from 1-4 PM. Register for training with Cat
Damato at damatoc@crtct.org
c. Security
Deposit Guarantee Program is only available for chronically homeless clients at
this time.
d. The
next Cold Weather Planning meeting will take place on Monday, September 25th
at 3:00 PM at Journey Home
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Data Element
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Number
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Notes
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Chronically homeless households housed in 2015
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102
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This includes clients housed through GH CAN programs as
well as through other subsidies or independent housing
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Chronically homeless households
housed in 2016
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211
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This includes clients housed
through GH CAN programs as well as through other subsidies or independent
housing
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Chronically homeless households
housed in 2017
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143
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This includes clients housed
through GH CAN programs as well as through other subsidies or independent
housing
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Total Chronically homeless
households housed in GH CAN
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456
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Verified Chronic Matched
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36
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Verified Chronic Not Yet Matched
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5
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We currently have 5 chronic
verified clients who have not yet been matched to housing.
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Potentially Chronic Refusers
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2
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Verified Chronic Refusers
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3
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Potentially Chronic Matched
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1
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These households did not
disclose a disabling condition, and are matched to various programs.
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Potentially Chronic Not Yet
Matched
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34
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Right now we believe 34
households have the chronic length of homeless history, but none of these
individuals have their homeless and disability verifications
completed.
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