Greater Hartford Coordinated Access Network
Leadership Committee Agenda
Wednesday, April
17th, 2019
1. In Attendance:
Steve Bigler - CRT
Kara Capobianco - CT DOY
Crane Cesario - DMHAS
Stephanie Corbin - Mercy Housing and Shelter
Sarah DiMaio - Salvation Army
Rosemary Flowers - My Sisters' Place
Mollie Greenwood - Journey Home
John Lawlor - The Connection
Rebekah Lyas - ImmaCare
Steve MacHattie - Mercy Housing and Shelter
Matt Morgan - Journey Home
Lisa Quach - Journey Home
Lionel Rigler - City of Hartford
Amy Robinson - US Dept of Veteran Affairs
Barbara Shaw - Hands On Hartford
Kathy Shaw - My Sisters' Place
Elijah McFolley - The Open Hearth
Amber Freeman - Chrysalis Center
Malika Nelson - CHR
Tracey Applesget - US Dept of Veteran Affairs
2. Coordinated
Exit:
a.
Revisiting Strategies from Last Meeting (see
p. 3) – Matt Morgan
1.
Changing the Narrative to be more
strengths-based
a.
Changing the narrative among providers
b.
Supporting our staff, reducing some of the
burnout with staff
i. Best
practice sharing around housing search
·
PROPOSED SOLUTIONS:
·
Educate other systems of care to work on the
conversations. ACTION STEPS STILL NEEDED.
DOH used to do this.
·
Encourage internal conversations in shelter be
focused on clients knowing that the onus is on them to be making moves
·
Ask shelters to have accountability on how
they’re becoming strengths based. Need
to make sure that the housing first message is trickling down to frontline
staff. What are the organizations doing
to change the narrative?
a.
DOH is working with family shelters.
b.
For the individual shelters, what should this
look like?
i. Mollie
– generate from Kara, the list of questions for family shelters. Dist to individual shelters.
c.
There should be expectations of what shelter
staffs are doing with people.
i. What
is supposed to happen in shelter? What
are the staff’s expectations?
·
POSTERS would be great.
2.
Shared Housing
a.
Shared Housing Event
b.
Roommate Matching
c.
Learning from New Haven’s Ready to Roommate
d.
Incentives for attending shared housing events,
like payment toward a utility bill
e.
Expanding stock of landlords willing to try shared
housing
PROPOSED SOLUTIONS:
·
We need to establish a contingency plan around
shared housing and identify a primary point person. It’s difficult doing rapid exit with no
services in shared housing. Who would
provide these services? What do events
look like, and who is doing landlord negotiations to do separate leases?
o
Salvation Army has contacted House of Bread, who
would be interested in hosting this type of event.
o
The Connection is hosting shared housing events
but they aren’t promoted as that type of event.
They’re looking for more organic connections, because the conversation
about shared housing starts happening at day 1.
o
The mayor’s office has been working on
establishing a housing commission. The
city may be able to bring folks together to talk about this. The city hopes to get this commission coming
in May.
o
Mercy’s new COC position may be able to assist
with some of this shared housing work.
§
Lisa suggested inviting the New Haven folks
back. Lisa and Mollie and David and
Stephanie will all work on next steps for Shared Housing.
3.
Identifying a Peer-Advisory group
a.
There is a need for peer-to-peer support at
shared housing, speaker to come and reassure current clients about the
potential for success in housing. It’s
also important for folks who are not in their “forever home” to speak about
their current housing as a stepping stone out of homelessness.
b.
David mentioned that he’s currently working to
try and bring information about homeless services in and onto the campus. David suggested bringing these groups also
into the campus settings. Campuses may
be willing to offer additional support.
c.
Barbara would be happy to have faces of
homelessness speakers bureau- they’re meeting with PSC, perch, and
Melville. They’re trying to build in
lived experience voice into Reaching Home.
d.
After we identify some times and spaces – use
the existing groups.
e.
Also many organizations have employees who
formerly experienced homelessness. This
could be a good place to start.
f.
In order to recruit and sustain a group of peers,
it will be essential to figure out a process for providing incentives.
4.
Identifying Additional Funding
a.
Having flexible funding available to facilitate
rapid exits, ideally low-barrier funding
5.
More fully utilizing other systems of care
a.
Mental Health/Substance Use partners
b.
Residential treatments – training needed
c.
Nursing Homes- training needed
d.
Conservatorship/ rep payee – training needed
·
PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
a.
Kept circling back to a need to identify these
agencies who are experts in MH/SA, residential treatment, nursing homes.
b.
Our staff needs to be trained. Frontline staff needs training on who they
can call and where they can go.
c.
We see a lot of clients come through because
homelessness is a concern, but shelter may not be the best place.
d.
Tracy will share the DMHAS link with information
about available treatment beds. Amy
offered to reach out to some of those providers.
e.
We may need a few CAN staff to attend an
upcoming CCT meeting – the folks at that meeting may be able to help make
connections.
f.
Journey Home can send out a CAN-wide email – who
can help us identify these organizations?
Once we know that, the group wants to dig into how to identify this.
g.
Amy talked about a shared online platform for
helping connect people – this could be applicable. Amy can give information on how to get
veterans connected to Objective Zero.
6.
Increasing Focus on Rapidly Exiting households
with Income
a.
Ensuring that income data is part of the By-Name
List
b.
Utilize interns to work with clients on
employment
·
Solutions
a.
There was agreement that the region needed to
focus on having accurate and timely income data to drive exits from shelter.
b.
There is an entry assessment and an exit
assessment. We would like to explore a
policy for everyone updating income within a system around a 90 day
period.
c.
We need to approach nutmeg to see whether
there’s a way to update assessment income at a “during” point. SO you’d need to update your intake. We would need that also to export to the
By-Name List.
i. Lisa
will talk to Nutmeg about being able to get this information into the By-Name
List.
1.
Crane suggested programs who already do tracking
of income changes, could they look at the impact of any changes in income
amounts.
b.
Progressive Engagement – Kara Capobianco
i. Fairfield
County is trying something with Progressive Engagement. They’re getting a new RRH project in July,
and they’re using money more as Rapid Exit.
1.
They’re prioritizing folks with SSI for
PSH.
3. Coordinated
Entry
a.
ESG Prevention Program Discussion – Lionel
Rigler
i. Next steps
will be an RFP that will come out through City council. It’ll happen after the city authorizes CDBG
funding in May. Lionel will begin
drafting the RFP.
4. Sub-COC
Updates – Crane Cesario
a.
Zoe is now with CT Association of
Nonprofits. The position will not be
filled. We estimate that there will be
$5,000 available via RFP for Point In Time planning activities and our
community will need an organization to take this on for the year ahead.
b.
Point in Time Count – Crane Cesario
c.
Dedicated Plus – Crane Cesario
d.
Rating and Ranking – Crane Cesario
i. We as a
community may just want to give a green light to applications. We don’t want to limit the pool of
applications going through. We may need
to come up with minimum standards and critieria to give programs a green
light.
5. GH CAN
Shelter and Housing Data
a.
GH CAN Housed Data (see p.2)
b.
GH CAN Waitlist Data (see p.2)
6. Future
Agenda Items?
a.
YHDP Youth Intakes
b.
David wanted to bring up Boards and
Commissions. David would like to see
some representation from this group on that commission. If we have more advocates for homelessness
programs, we could incorporate those discussions into programming of what the
city will be implementing. David will
share.
c.
Section 8
7. Announcements
a.
There will be a Leader
Design Session on April 26, 2019 from 1pm-3:30pm at the YWCA Hartford Region
located at 135 Broad Street in Hartford (Use the Broad Street YWCA entrance) to
prepare for our upcoming 100-Day Challenge on youth homelessness.
b.
CAN Data Dashboards are available at www.CTCANData.org . Please check out your organization’s data and
work on
cleaning up any incorrect data so that we can start using these dashboards to
inform our system work.
c.
CCEH’s Annual Training Institute will be held on May 16th, 2019,
register on cceh.org
d.
CCEH has funding available for victims of
Hurricane Maria- if you are working with anyone who was a hurricane evacuee
please contact Mollie Greenwood or Lisa Quach immediately.
e.
CCEH has funding available for childcare for
families in shelter!
f.
Family Shelter Check-In will be taking place
immediately after today’s meeting from 3:30-4:00PM
GH CAN Housing Data
|
Chronically
homeless individuals housed in 2015
|
102
|
This
includes clients housed through GH CAN programs
as well as through other subsidies or independent housing
|
|
Chronically
homeless individuals housed in 2016
|
211
|
This
includes clients housed through GH CAN programs
as well as through other subsidies or independent housing
|
|
Chronically
homeless individuals housed in 2017
|
179
|
This
includes clients housed through GH CAN programs
as well as through other subsidies or independent housing
|
|
Chronically
homeless/potentially chronic individuals housed in 2018
|
151
|
This
includes clients housed through GH CAN programs
and bridges to PSH as well as through other subsidies or independent
housing
|
|
Chronically
homeless/potentially chronic individuals housed in 2019
|
49
|
This
includes clients housed through GH CAN programs and bridges to PSH as well as
through other subsidies or independent housing
|
|
Total
Chronically homeless individuals housed in GH CAN
|
692
|
|
|
Verified
Chronic Matched
|
21
|
|
|
Verified
Chronic Not Yet Matched
|
23
|
We
currently have 23 chronic verified clients who have not yet been matched to
housing.
|
|
Potentially
Chronic Refusers
|
1
|
|
|
Verified
Chronic Refusers
|
2
|
|
|
Not
Chronic (Verified) Refuser
|
1
|
|
|
Potentially
Chronic Matched
|
1
|
These
households did not disclose a disabling condition, and are matched to various
programs.
|
|
Not
Chronic Matched
|
30
|
|
|
Potentially
Chronic Not Yet Matched
|
34
|
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.
|
|
Individuals
- Active – Not Matched
|
314
|
This
is Enrolled in CAN, Enrolled in TH, and In
an Institution
|
|
Families
– Active – Not Matched
|
36
|
This
is Enrolled in CAN and Enrolled in TH
|
|
Families
- Verified Chronic – Not Matched
|
1
|
|
|
Families
– Potentially Chronic – Matched
|
0
|
|
|
Families
– Potentially Chronic – Not Matched
|
0
|
|
|
Families
– Not Chronic (Verified) – Matched
|
14
|
This
includes RRH bridges
|
|
Families
– Verified Chronic – Matched
|
1
|
|
SmartSheet Shelter Priority List Data
|
Individual Men
|
Individual Women
|
Family Stabilization List
|
|
73 unsheltered
|
91 unsheltered
|
6 families on Stabilization List
|
|
92 total
|
110 total
|
|
