GH CAN Leadership Agenda 10/7/2020

 

GREATER HARTFORD COORDINATED ACCESS NETWORK MEETING AGENDA

Follow Up Meeting

Wednesday, October 7, 2020 via Zoom

 1PM – 2:15PM

 

1.       Welcome and Introductions – 5 minutes

2.       COVID – 19 – 5 minutes

a.       DMHAS – extended teleworking till Dec. 31^st outpatient clinical services mostly by telephone.

3.       Timing to Complete VI-SPDAT for Families – Lisa Quach – 10 minutes

a.       Last guidance – anyone experiencing homelessness for the 1^st time, should wait 14 days to complete VI. Family need to be verified before getting into shelter.

b.       Should we change our policies when families come into shelter? CAN agreed to not do it on the 1^st day of stay in shelter.

c.       Would like all shelters to follow the same policy, Concern – if VI is done early, expectations for housing is high. Would like clients to self-resolve.

d.       Can we have a different policy for Individuals Vs. Families? Something to explore statewide, if we want this.  Lisa will bring up to housing solutions collaborative to see what the rest of the state is doing.

e.       Keep as an agenda item for Families meeting. Next meeting 10/14.

f.        % of households that self resolve in 14 days? CCEH – 30% in the first 14 or 30 days. Check % from CCEH.

4.       Shelter Prioritization – Amanda Gordon and Louis Gilbert/ I – 15 minutes

a.       ImmaCare Re-Opening Plan – fire marshall has to do a check. Elevator has been approved. Waiting for fencing. Some delays. Should not delay opening. Furniture has arrived. Ohouse possibly on a Friday afternoon/Saturday.  40 bed capacity due to COVID.

b.       Shelter Prioritization for those Outside

Amanda shared screen: list of over 300 people on list. Discussing at outreach meetings. Prioritization shared:

-          Verify those on list

-          Year and half ago CAN agreed to prioritize those in hotel paid for by 3^rd party – leave in cat 7 and 8 or add a separate category to count as unsheltered?

-          CAN prioritize those verified outside and unsheltered over those who are self-reporting?

-          those in hotel paid for by 3^rd party – leave in cat 7 and 8 or add a separate

category to count as unsheltered?

o   Crane – where were they before they came into hotel, each case is different. Were they literally homeless? Do we want to prioritize those who are verified unsheltered over those who are self-reporting?

o   Rebecca – those in hotel losing their status if we don’t transition them into shelter. Some have court cases pending those in Jail Diversion, don’t want to set these folks back on their progress towards housing.

o   Tara - Some become homeless by court system if court does not allow them to go to their reported address, some cases go on about a year.

o   Mark – some leaving early to get out of system specifically those in DOC. Some do not get a referral.

-          Folks in hotel by one of our shelters is a shelter category not on list

-          Small group to meet, then bring suggestions to leadership

 

5.       Day Time Shelter – 5 minutes

a.       ESG shelter dollars

b.       Which day time shelters plan to stay open? Additional gaps and expenses to stay open? COVID related

c.       Survey to be sent out, everyone ok with the survey? Survey will be sent out

d.       Matt provided feedback to Steve D.

6.       Cold Weather/Winter Planning Updates – Lisa Cretella – 10 minutes

a.       Cold Weather meeting planned for Thursday, October 22 1-3pm invite from Kelly Gonzales 

b.       No big update, rescheduled for Oct 22 instead of tomorrow

c.       Ideas to be discussed. Triage is the gap right now. Gap – east of the river, will discuss with Bryan.

d.       Pledge to DOH – Hartford Milner, Mercy Triage Space (possibility at Friendship Center to do family triage, can fit about 12 people, working out finance part, will need extra staffing, food. Volunteers cannot participate at the moment), Cornerstone C/House. Locations east of the river has not been identified. Gap – additional hotel capacity. Plan to get up to capacity as last year. Will identify gaps.

e.       Bryan – letter of recommendation, coordinating efforts with Enfield and other areas of the CAN. Will appeal to towns about the situation and how bad it can get.

7.       CHESS Program Training Updates– Beacon Health – 3 minutes

a.       No updates. Laura will provide updates once everything is finalized, or more updates.

8.       CT Race Equity Summit Debrief – 5 minutes

a.       Safe Place for my Race 

b.       Representative Leadership

c.       Pathways to Resources 

d.       Building Racial Transformers 

 

-          Crane and Lisa were part of the Cohort 1.

-          3^rd cohort application is up right now, can apply to be a representative, CSH website of application. Lisa will send to me to send to group.

-          We work with a diverse group, meeting was very eye opening for many of us

-          Subcommittee to discuss this?

 

9.       Statewide Draft CAN/Homeless Delivery System Strategies – Matt Morgan – 3 minutes

a.       List of strategies will be finalized this Friday or Monday. Matt will ask for feedback. Feedback to be shared with Sofina and Matt.

10.   Statewide/Local 1000 Homes/ESG-COVID Housing Effort/FLASH Program/Prevention Update–Andrea Hakian, Kara Capobianco, Lisa Quach, Matt Morgan, Lionel Rigler, and Stephanie Corbin – 10 minutes

a.       Outreach – meeting was on Monday. Discussed RFP. Combine two pools of funds? CAN agreed for JH to apply for RFP for funds. Amanda will send out email to those interested. Every agency will get a vote. City Procurement standards – need individual committee, conflict of interest and fairness. Centralized RFP, independent committee to review applications.

b.       Key Components –

 

11.   Future Agenda Items or Additional Announcements – 2 minutes

a.       Shared Housing Forum on Wednesday, October 14^th from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm.