GH CAN Leadership –
Daily Check – In
Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 12PM-12:30PM via
Zoom
1.
Welcome
2.
Agency
Updates around COVID – 19
a. General updates to staffing changes
i. State is working on identifying hotels.
Balloon payment
1. Hotels are not willing to come down on rate
– can someone else pay the difference?
2. Matt and Amanda looking into other towns
for hotels – Windsor
ii. HUD changes have been sent out – write to
field office 2 days before
using a waiver – can start today, this needs to be submitted
iii. Are we further decreasing any barriers for
housing? Working on with DOH and Housing innovations, and DMHAS.
iv. FMR
v. Internal RAP – JDA can process, case by
case
1. Disability verification has been waived –
self verification.
vi. Super Waiver needs to be submitted 2 days
before use – 60 K from Mercy, looking for families and individuals – email from
Lisa to go out to agencies informing them about this opportunity – Needs to be
used by June 30th – can pay in advance, security deposit from a
different fund. We can pick prioritization.
1. How many people can we house?
a. Some income to sustain
b. New opportunities to be added to a sheet to
be shared with agencies
c. Prioritization to be determined
vii. Still have over 20K for Rapid Exit – can pay
up to 3 months, some arrearages – 1 time payment – info sheet to be sent out
viii.
Any
clients waiting to be tested or have been tested?
3. Serving the Unsheltered Population During
COVID – 19
a.
How will
we identify who is most vulnerable, how should we prioritize?
i. We do not have anything available
4. Reach out to Daniel from Beacon if anyone
needs to be assessed
a.
Providing
detox to those who are being quarantined – if positive or symptomatic- TBD discussing
with intercommunity. Feedback will be provided soon to Amanda.
5. Working on plan for those who are newly
homeless – discussion to continue
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