Greater Hartford / Hartford Sub-COC Advisory Board
February 21, 2018
In Attendance:
Brian Baker – South Park Inn
Kara Capobianco- Department of Housing
Crane Cesario – Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services,
CRMHC
Sarah DiMaio – Salvation Army
Fred Faulkner – The Open Hearth
Louis Gilbert – ImmaCare
Mollie Greenwood – Journey Home
Andrea Hakian – CHR
Lauren Fair – Salvation Army
Matt Morgan – Journey Home
Lionel Rigler – City of Hartford
Barbara Shaw – Hands On Hartford
Kathy Shaw – My Sisters’ Place
Kate Chamberlin - CCEH
Stephanie Corbin – Mercy Housing and Shelter
Steve MacHattie – ImmaCare
Justine Couvares – Chrysalis Center
Brenda Earle – CHR
Jeremiah Baker – CCEH
Sarah Fox – CCEH
1.
SUB COC Items
a.
CT BOS Steering Committee Items and Discussion
i. Reorganization
of CT BOS COC and Reaching Home – vote to be taken
ii. CT
BOS COC Regional Representation – vote to be taken 3/16/18
iii. 2018
Renewal Evaluations – score requests due Friday 2/23/18
iv. Statewide
Rapid ReHousing (RRH) workgroup
v. Environmental
Reviews – Required to be submitted to HUD before contract
vi. Reallocation
of unexpended grant funds and New projects
viii.
Congratulations to all grantees on a successful
2017 NOFA application!
b.
CT HMIS Steering Committee
i. System
Performance Measures
ii. Anonymous
Clients
iii. CT
HMIS Funding
c.
Census of the Homeless / Point in Time Count
i. Count
was Tuesday, 1/23
ii. Warming
Center Counting Status – sheltered or unsheltered?
iii. Participation
by all GH provider agencies needed.
2.
CAN Leadership Items
a.
Advocacy Days –
i. Advocacy Days for the Greater Hartford CAN
will be held on Wednesday, March 7th, 2018 beginning at 10:00
AM. We will meet in the cafeteria of the
LOB at
b.
Warming Center Updates – Sarah DiMaio
i. The warming center has not been at capacity or
have had to turn people away recently.
ii. They
have been out of hotel money for almost 2 weeks now and need help from other
family shelters to assist with the unsheltered families presenting at triage
and/or the warming center.
iii. Marshall
House is at capacity and have utilized their lobby and living room to
accommodate unsheltered families.
iv. Sarah
suggested that shelters utilize their single woman beds for children.
v. There
are currently 29 women and families at Marshall House right now.
vi. Sarah
is unsure if she will receive more funding for motel stays and there is still a
month of cold weather left.
vii. The
warming center will close on March 31st.
viii.
CDBG Small Cities Funding – Brenda Earle offered
to assist in reaching out to the Town of Enfield to see if they would be interested
in pursuing this funding.
c.
Households with Income –
i. We’ve
discussed this in the past as a challenge because we continue to have folks in
our shelters with considerable income who either refuse Rapid ReHousing or who
are not prioritized for any housing assistance, and who are choosing to remain
in shelter.
d.
GH CAN Housing Data – see p. 2
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