Greater Hartford Coordinated Access Network
Leadership Committee
Wednesday, November 15, 2018
CAN-niversary meeting at CRT’s Lumsden Center
1.
Sub-COC Items
a.
The Point In Time count will be held the third
week in January, providers need to make sure a member of their staff is signed
up for the provider training. Volunteer
training will take place at CRT around the time of the PIT.
2.
COC Match
Funding
a.
Journey Home has created a chart to outline the
amount of leverage they provide to different CAN partners for use on future COC
applications
3.
Cold
Weather Planning Update
a.
Salvation Army Marshall House has set plans in
place with Center Church and Community Meals to serve as triage centers in the
afternoons before the Warming Center opens up.
They are looking for assistance with meals, as well as transportation.
b.
Salvation Army is working on a flyer as well as
business cards with the location and Warming Center information to distribute
for early December.
4.
Youth
Count Update
a.
The Youth Count is scheduled for the last week
of January, the 25th through the 30th. If you are interested in being a volunteer,
please contact Steve Hurley at Steve.Hurley@journeyhomect.org
5.
Department of Corrections Update – Mollie Greenwood
a.
Journey Home has helped reinvigorate a statewide
group working on collaboration with the Criminal Justice system in response to
concerns that DOC had been dropping households off at shelters. If you identify a household who has been
dropped at the shelter door by DOC, please contact Mollie so she can share the
information with the DOC and figure out what happened.
6.
Housing Failures and Success Rates – Mollie Greenwood
a.
In a client-strengths-focused mindset, we will
re-title this data for future distribution, calling it “households who returned
to homelessness from a housing program”.
b.
Journey Home looked at the data we have compiled
from all the housing matching meetings, and shared a draft of a list of folks
who were known to have unsuccessfully discharged from housing programs with the
Operations Committee. Our program
retention rates seem very high, so much so that there is some doubt whether we
are accurately capturing everyone who may be returning to homelessness
c.
Our CT BOS performance measures for PSH programs
indicate very low rates of return to homelessness, so these metrics may be
accurate.
7.
Dynamic Prioritization Update – Crane Cesario
a.
Statewide committees are looking at the
different housing resources we have available and trying to set policy around
how we should prioritize households for the limited and varying housing options
we have available at a given time. There
are two subgroups currently, one of which is chaired by Crane.
8.
GH CAN Shelter and Housing Data
9.
Future Agenda Items
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