GH CAN Leadership 12/16/2020

 

GREATER HARTFORD COORDINATED ACCESS NETWORK MEETING AGENDA

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 via Zoom

 1PM – 2:15PM

 

1.       Welcome and Introductions – 5 minutes

2.       Cold Weather/Winter Planning Updates – Lisa Cretella, Bryan Flint, Kara Capone, Mark Jenkins– 15 minutes

a.       Operating the overflow, opening the warming center early today. Will be open all day for the next two days. Will work towards staffing for 24 hours with grant from JH. Overflow is not full at the moment. Triage – working on hiring, will try to open by end of Dec, early Jan.

b.       Step and Geri have been working together, would like to open triage space at the same time. Working on hiring. Low flow of families. Outreaching and hoteling families. Families are being addressed immediately.

c.       Cornerstone has been a triage space for those outside Hartford. New Hope house is also a triage location. Using Red Roof Inn in Vernon.

d.       HOH – meal program and day program will be closed due to storm.

e.       Prioritizing Hartford residents for Warming Center. Having a few people arrive that are not from Hartford.

f.        Warming Center – capacity is 60. Highest night in mid 40s. Have not hit capacity since opening.

g.       Open Day Programs

                                                              i.      CHR Enfield – working to have 24/7 center in the next few weeks. Open to East of the River clients. Will not need to be associated with towns

                                                             ii.      Open Hearth – open 24/7

                                                           iii.      YWCA – open 24/7

                                                           iv.      McKinney – at hotel 24/7

                                                             v.      SPI – open 24/7

                                                           vi.      EH Shelter – open 24/7, looking to hire additional staff

                                                         vii.      ImmaCare – open 24/7. Working on testing partner.

3.       COVID – 19 Agency Updates – 5 minutes

a.       For notes on shelters with positive cases, please reach out to Sofina B. 

g.       Vaccine webinar – slides will be forwarded.

 

4.       Participation in Virtual Meetings –  8 Minutes

a.       Collaborative effort.

b.      Cameras on when/if possible.

c.       Welcome to the CAN guide to come soon.

d.      Pending referrals ahead of time to be sent out and returned to shorten meetings

5.       HIC/PIT – 5 minutes – Lisa Quach

a.       Database information has been received

b.      Draft sent out and shared with HUD

c.       New method – shelter count as is, unsheltered count will not canvas locations due to pandemic, will use HMIS street outreach including PATH.

d.      New outreach program to enter data

e.       PATH – filter down clients based on residence prior field

f.        Meeting on Friday for local strategies

6.       Dedicated Plus – 5 minutes- Lisa Quach and Crane Cesario

a.       Allows us to help those who have long term homelessness and severe needs. Will allow us to help those who do not have continuous 12 months of homelessness. Will not be bound to chronic homelessness status.

b.      CT BOS is working on forms. Have added extra signature lines.

c.       Program start date relative to housing start date needs document from outreach worker. Some providers are requiring letter from CAN Manager. Jan 1^st moving forward.

d.      Forms are still being revised. Training has been postponed. Training will come when forms are completed.

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

a.       Community training was last week, still waiting on finalizing. PowerPoint has not been sent out yet. More information to come soon.

b.      CHESS -

8.       ESG-COVID Program Updates/FLASH –Jane Banks, Andrea Hakian, Stephanie Corbin, Lisa Quach, Lionel Rigler, Barbara Shaw, Kara Zichichi, Matt Morgan – 7 minutes

a.       JH first to go under contract with the state for Outreach

b.      CHR – 2 full time staff for RRH. 5 household housed. 6/7 under housing search. Using FLASH.

c.       Mercy – 1 FTE. 4 FLASH Clients who have been housed. Several in housing search.

d.      Do we have enough staff to spend down funds? If no staff turnover, can spend about 10k per month, looks like it is possible.

e.       Working on training to come soon for new staff. Critical Time Intervention.

f.        Will look into hiring more staff.

g.       SPI Prevention – staff is receiving training.

h.      Outreach project is moving along. Will add more hours for outreach in Hartford and GH region.

i.        Contracts have not gone out for most programs. Award letters have gone out.

9.       Future Agenda Items or Additional Announcements – 2 minutes

a.       CHR Enfield – Enfield will end mobile outreach on Dec 31^st. Town of Enfield has made the decision. Working no plans to go forward.

b.      Mercy job postings have gone out for new Diversion staff – about 3 new staff

c.       Individuals booking out, call volume has increased.