GREATER HARTFORD COORDINATED ACCESS NETWORK
LEADERSHIP MEETING AGENDA
Wednesday,
July 21, 2021 via Zoom
Next
meeting: August 4, 2021
1PM – 2:15PM
1. Welcome and Introductions – 5 minutes
- NAEH/ DOH Next Steps to Support
Shelters – 15 minutes
- Will
revisit goals at next month’s meeting in August
a.
Shelter Goals/CAN Overall Goal and needs of
shelters/CAN to meet these goals?
-
Standard system that was used in MA was total
capacity / 12
-
Would we want to use percentage rather than an
actual number?
o
No discussion on what it needed to be, just what
is your sense of what the goal should be?
-
Performance driven approach to outcomes – driven
by past performance
-
Smartsheets modeled off old model – more aligned
with performance driven approach
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If we housed 100% last year – we would look to
house 125% (regardless of the capacity) the coming year
-
What is the time frame we’re looking at? Are we
looking to house x amount of people in a certain amount of time. Goal set for
the rest of 2021 – check-ins weekly.
-
Structural injustices from these numbers,
population changes, decreased numbers may not be very good statistics
-
Monthly goal or by end of the year? – input info
on a weekly basis – the ask was a weekly goal
-
Email Matt and Nadine at JH your goal by the end
of this week
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Shelters can develop their own system and then
we can look at numbers as a CAN
b.
How
do these goals align with previous goals set in past learning collaborative?
c.
Since
the learning collaborative meetings, what have been the immediate next steps?
3. Cold Weather Planning/ Shelter Funding
Discussion – 25 minutes
a.
Salvation
Army has applied but they have not heard anything as of yet, we don’t know who
else has applied – check in next time
b.
Lionel
Rigler to try and get an update
c.
Programs
and ESG / FEMA expenses reviewed
i. Nutmeg created hotel covid enrollments –
people were inaccurately enrolled in some of them.
ii. $153,335 from City of Hartford ESG still
needs to be spent – must be used in the city of Hartford
1.
This
money could be used to hotel people in the event of another COVID outbreak
2.
Any
priority? – hard to say, unsure of Delta variant of COVID, unsure of effect of
eviction moratorium
3.
Funds
need to be spent on temporary shelter by end of January 2022, could be spent
later than January if someone reaches out to HUD to make a case for it.
iii. Should be additional funding for those
outside of Hartford
iv. Family triage has already been subtracted
from these numbers already
v. Manchester – still determining what to do
this winter, would support additional funding
vi. Maybe look to some of the other day time
supports as a way to reducing day time cost burden – 1st look at
making sure we have enough beds then look at day centers
4. CCEH Listening Session – 25 minutes
a.
Next
legislative session – what would providers like to see reflected in Reaching
Home agenda? What are needs and challenges?
b.
Survey
is still open https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6TSNSNR – feedback from survey
i. Most helpful advocacy materials
1.
Housing
and homelessness talking points
2.
Housing
and homelessness data
3.
Data
infographics
4.
Op-ed
templates
5.
Email
templates
6.
Social
media postings
ii. Challenges
1.
Funding
levels
2.
Lack of
staff / staff turnover
3.
Landlord
unwilling to rent to high-risk clients
4.
Lack of
affordable housing
5.
Flat
funding from state agencies
6.
Minimum
wage increases (contracts have not kept pace with rising costs)
iii. What else would you like to share?
1.
Need an
influx of funding from state agencies
2.
Housing
first now a one fits all approach for everyone
3.
Need
funding frontline services providers (livable wage)
4.
Focus on
prevention services
5.
Uplift
voices of those with lived experience
6.
Lack of
affordable housing impedes ability to permanently house
iv. What CCEH is hearing
1.
Additional
diversion funding
2.
How to
get landlords to work with us
3.
Tiny
houses
4.
Increase
outreach
c.
What
else should CCEH know?
i. Need more money for staffing
ii. Careful about not taking care of all of the
components of our response system – educating people about all the things that
go into diversion, prevention, outreach, day centers etc. – a portion of our
system was funded last time – not enough to impact multiple components of the
system.
iii. Diversion and RRH
iv. Keeping CANs right-sized
v. Lack of enough housing stock & creative
housing stock solutions
vi. How much would it cost to run the system at
optimal levels? What was the impact on outcomes when we had additional COVID
money?
d.
$300
million from American Rescue Plan left over to spend – letters being worked on
to advocate for homelessness system needs
e.
What do
you need in order to engage in advocacy better?
i. Need more opportunities to engage with
statewide advocacy groups
5. Critical COVID – 19 Agency Updates and ESG
Updates – 4 minutes
a.
Salvation Army is 100% back on-site.
6. Future Agenda Items or Additional
Announcements – 1 minute
a.
Add
triage to agenda for next meeting, Salvation Army and possibly ImmaCare
