Leadership Committee Agenda
Wednesday,
January 3rd, 2018
1.
In Attendance:
Steve
Bigler – CRT
Kara
Capobianco – Department of Housing
Crane
Cesario – DMHAS
Stephanie
Corbin – Mercy Housing
Justine
Couvares – Chrysalis Cente
Sarah
DiMaio – Salvation Army
Fred
Faulkner – The Open Hearth
Rosemary
Flowers – My Sisters’ Place
Lou
Gilbert – ImmaCare
Andrea
Hakian – CHR
John
Lawlor – The Connection
Matt
Morgan – Journey Home
Lisa
Quach – Journey Home
Lionel
Rigler – City of Hartford
Kathy
Shaw – My Sisters’ Place
Barbara
Shaw – Hands On Hartford
Cathy
Zeiner - YWCA
2.
Next GH CAN Leadership Meeting:
Conflict with HIV/AIDS Provider Meeting – Mollie Greenwood
3.
Point In Time Count – Cat
Damato, Crane Cesario
a. Still
looking for volunteers for the PIT count.
Training will be Tuesday date 10-12 and 1-3 time for all homeless
programs (shelters and housing providers).
b. National
Homeless Information report today- PIT Counts are really varied across
geographic locations. We got some
guidance to make sure there are no unsheltered families and are working to keep
families from being unsheltered. There
is a lot of pressure to ensure families stay sheltered.
c. Literally
Homeless Families: Guidance from Department of Housing (handout) – Sarah DiMaio
i. Sarah
highlighted that we should call any families currently on the waitlist listed
as unsheltered in advance of the Point In Time count. We haven’t identified a process around
this. Stephanie thinks this is something
the Diversion Center can be responsible for this in advance of the Point In
Time Count. Diversion will take on
calling the 19 currently unsheltered families, and will work with Journey Home
to develop some protocols for consistency around this.
ii. The
triage center is generally not adding any other new folks to the list- the
dramatic majority of folks they place back onto the waitlist are folks who
don’t have phones.
4.
Cold Weather Updates- Willie
Ware Rec Center will be open through January 8th 24 hours (through
the end of the Cold Weather Protocol).
Any individual should be immediately directed to the Willie Ware Rec
Center. Any family should be directed to
call Salvation Army Marshall House immediately.
Since 12/30 we’ve had 178 unique individuals come through the warming
center. The Warming Center HMIS just got
set up. It took all day to get intakes
added to the system. If anyone needs
homeless verifications, they should reach out to Sarah DiMaio or Rikka
Racelis. In general people are staying a
long time and there are a number of folks who are adamantly disinterested in
shelter options. The Warming Center
space has also forced some self-resolutions.
In general the space has been full, and even over capacity, going over
60 people in the space. Even for the
first of the month, there were almost 50 people last night. 5-6 women have stayed there each night. Individuals have begun transferring from
Salvation Army’s overflow into the Warming Center to free up space for families
in the overflow. Every shelter should be
full every single night. Marshall House
has added emergency cots to reduce hotel stays for individuals. They’ve accommodated every person who has shelter.
a. Last
week CT Transit had helped transport folks between the Willie Ware Rec Center
and the soup kitchens/triage. This was
too much coordination, so the Rec Center will be open.
b. Enfield
Warming Center will be opening mid January.
They had hoped to open earlier but don’t have capacity to do this. They do have transportation funding, and so
may send people to Hartford.
5.
Housing Matching Prioritization
After Chronic Homelessness – Lisa Quach and Crane Cesario
a. We
are near the end of chronic homelessness.
If we run out of folks who are chronically homeless, we will transition
to then housing folks who need to exit PSH.
In an effort to prevent vacancy losses, there was a proposal to match
people who are CH, then RRH exits, and if nobody from these pools exist, we
would like to start matching folks who are potentially chronically homeless.
i. There
were concerns from providers that folks may not become chronically homeless
(verified). We have a suggestion to
match people and provide 30 days for folks to pull together documentation.
ii. Kara-
the way she understands, if someone goes into RRH without a DxVer, you may get
it during the RRH program, and then they become chronically homeless.
b. Timelines
for Referring/Returning Potentially Chronically Homeless Households – Lisa
Quach
i. If
you think that you need to make someone CH to put them into RRH, it’s more like
we need to try and house everyone. If it
turns out they get a DxVer, we treat them as going into RRH.
ii. If
we go through all the folks who are Verified, and the Rapid Exit folks, should
PSH programs be taking potentially chronically homeless referrals.
iii. HUD
guidance is there is up to 45 days to verify Disabling Conditions.
iv. Andrea
stated that several months into RRH a disabling condition sometimes becomes
much more evident.
v. What
we discovered yesterday was we had 9 PSH openings, we had 4 CH verified people,
4 people in RRH who needed to exit. Two
of the openings were specific to folks with HIV/AIDS. We didn’t know if any of the potentially CH
folks met the HIV/AIDS. Now, when we
have PSH openings but no CH, then we take RRH exits. But as we continue to move forward, if we
don’t get more CH verified, we will be moving towards housing the potentially
chronically homeless folks.
vi. Case
managers who are serving the potentially chronically homeless folks, we need
these households to be prioritized for determining whether or not they meet the
chronically homeless criteria.
vii. The
remaining chronically homeless individual who was not matched yesterday was
just not eligible for any of the openings that were available yesterday.
viii.
Scattered site RAPs came on
board for yesterday’s matching meeting.
ix. Chrysalis
and DMHAS are working on helping to open up efficiencies by allowing them to
“graduate” to 1BR units.
6.
Statewide ReTooling Group
Reorganization, Family Leaders Needed – Matt Morgan
a. Part
of the Reaching Home Campaign has been the Retooling the Crisis Response
System. Sarah DiMaio and Cathy Zeiner
will be stepping up to assist with this.
Crane will follow up with the Retooling team.
7.
Dynamic Prioritization Update –
Crane Cesario
a. Rapid
Exit is a new style of housing intervention to assist folks who may have gotten
into shelter and need a very light touch boost to get out of shelter. It’s a new concept still. There will probably be some statewide
advocacy around this.
b. Crane’s
subcommittee around prioritization has done a lot of work on how to start
implementing prioritization. Some people
feel strongly that we’re undermining our capacity to justify the need for
permanent supportive housing. We’re
trying to set up more refined prioritization tiers based on HUD guidance. We’re also considering how we manage Rapid
ReHousing exits. The best way to do RRH
exits to PSH is to really allow for a very long time in RRH to allow
opportunities to succeed before transferring RRH households into PSH. We’re going to look at Length of Homelessness
and Severity of Needs, but we’ll be prioritizing folks who need to exit RRH
first of all. Determining who the top
priority is a challenge. In Hartford
we’ve been examining what we are doing.
There will always be an exception for folks who present with such significant
service needs who are the most vulnerable.
c. Iain
DeJong is coming to do a shared housing training soon because affordability is
going to be a constant challenge for our community.
8.
Youth Count Update – Mollie
Greenwood
9.
GH CAN Shelter and Housing Data
– Mollie Greenwood
i. See
p.2
ii. Statewide
Monthly Chronic Housing Report - Individuals
10.
Future Agenda Items?
11.
Announcements
a.
Journey Home will be opening the Family and
Youth Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Preferences on Friday of this week.
b.
CT Department of Housing has made Capital
Funding available for shelter improvements.
See DOH website for more information.
c.
Beginning in January this committee’s meeting
schedule will be changing to meet on the first and third week of each month,
and on the third week the meeting will also cover any sub-COC related items.
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
|
179
|
This
includes clients housed through GH CAN programs as well as through other
subsidies or independent housing
|
Chronically
homeless households housed in 2018
|
1
|
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
|
493
|
|
Verified
Chronic Matched
|
34
|
|
Verified
Chronic Not Yet Matched
|
1
|
We
currently have 1 chronic verified clients who have not yet been matched to
housing.
VI-SPDAT score = 9
|
Potentially
Chronic Refusers
|
3
|
|
Verified
Chronic Refusers
|
0
|
|
Potentially
Chronic Matched
|
1
|
These
households did not disclose a disabling condition, and are matched to various
programs.
|
Potentially
Chronic Not Yet Matched
|
25
|
Right now
we believe 25 households have the chronic length of homeless history, but
none of these individuals have their homeless and disability
verifications completed.
|
Individuals
- Active – Not Matched
|
549
|
This
includes Active – Enrolled in CAN, Enrolled in TH & In an Institution
|
Families –
Active – Not Matched
|
29
|
This
includes Active – Enrolled in CAN, Enrolled in TH & In an Institution
|
SmartSheet Shelter Priority List Data
Individual Men
|
Individual Women
|
Families
|
Unsheltered: 168
|
Unsheltered: 121
|
Unsheltered: 19
|
Total: 244
|
Total: 172
|
Total: 45
|
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