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CEA Policy Subcommitee 1-12-17 Meeting Summary
Members Present: / Members Absent:Kira Zylstra
Dusty Olson
Martha Sassorossi
Rebecca Stapleton
Jeanice Hardy
Sean Walsh
Sarah Dougherty / Kristine Huson
Amanda Thompkins
Sara Hoffman
Hedda McLendon
Bill Hallerman
Jean Paul / Colleen Echohawk
Derek Wentorf
Kate Speltz
Wayne Wilson
CEA Updates
· The CEA team had zero housing units open to fill right the third week of December. This was a huge accomplishment for the team. CEA is working with real time openings.
· CEA now has marketing materials that can be passed out to those experiencing homelessness and be posted in service agencies.
· The housing assessment has been revised. CEA held the first training this week (1/12/17) to go over the changes with assessors. CEA will go live with the revised assessment on 1/20/17. The revised assessment has new questions that follow HUD standards to capture if a household meets the definition of chronic homelessness. This data will make it easier for CEA to find households for PSH units.
· The Young Adult Homelessness Navigators launch is 1/23/17. The navigator caseloads will be comprised of young adults from the community queue.
· CEA is started a Single Adult Pre-Referral call. CEA will pull a list of the top 100 scoring single adults from the community queue. We will work to connect these household with agencies to assist them in gathering documentation in preparation of an upcoming housing referral.
· CEA website now has a provider resource page.
CEA Stage 3 Work Plan Review
Sara and Hedda reviewed the CEA Stage Three Work Plan with the committee outlining work that is currently underway and upcoming work that is currently in the planning process. The work plan includes the following categories of work.
Ongoing RAP Support, Training and Alignment
Refresh CEA Housing Inventory, Assessment, Manuals, Eligibility Engine and Associated Training
Flag Review policy- Sara highlighted some key points regarding flag review that were not captured in the December meeting when the policy was discussed. Sara informed the committee that the CEA team needs the policy to ensure households that have vulnerabilities that are not captured in the assessment are discussed. Sara gave the example of a household that is blind or deaf and that there are no questions on the VI-SPDAT to capture risk and vulnerabilities such as these but they are extremely important and need to be brought to the attention of CEA. The committee agreed that CEA needs to revise the policy to include medical vulnerabilities and conditions.
Single Adults in CEA
System Transformation Activities
BNL/Pre-Referral Calls
CEA Pre-Referrals Calls
CEA staff will be reaching out to the top 100 SA currently on the Community Queue in order to update them on the launch of single adult referrals, confirm eligibility, and complete the CH assessment questions. The first Pre-Referral Call will be on 1/19/17. For households that CEA is not able to contact a SA CEA Pre-Referral Call will be conducted, to work with providers to contact the households.
The purpose of these calls are to support households that will be part of the first cohort of referrals through CEA and assure we have a “live” list given the extended surge period.
CEA is working to determine is a similar call model should be followed for youth and families. It will be important for CEA to clarify the intent of the call with providers.
Next Meeting:
Thursday January 26th, 2017 2:30-4:00- location Chinook
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