Meeting Title: Inaugural Meeting of the Leadership ...



Meeting Title: Executive Committee – Arlington County CoC Arlington’s Action Plan on Ending Homelessness

Date: December 7, 2020

Time: 10:00AM – 11:30AM

Place: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

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Conference ID: 303 263 482#

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|Agenda Items |

|Welcome/Introductions |

|Kim Painter, Andrew Schneider, Betsy Frantz, Leonard Chari, Ayana Bellamy, Sam Kelly, Cicely Whitfield, Alexandra Gavin, Kathy Paal, Linley Beckbridge, |

|Courtney Lord Martinez, Heather Venner, Sara Thompson, Sherri Brothers, Triina Van, Nicole Harmon, Ahmad Haj-Ali, Caitlin Hutchison, Pamela Mitchell, David |

|Leibson, Georgia Fisher |

|Subcommittee Reports (All) Information/Discussion |

|Housing |

|Presentation on fair housing implementation |

|Tracking demographic status of people and best administration policies |

|Reviewing plans to make sure there are not gaps |

|Housing grants marked as an area that needs to be further reviewed |

|Collecting data on housing for undocumented people |

|Information is not gathered by DHS so they are looking toward other sources |

|Reached out to the county demographer for data analysis |

|COVID update |

|Thankful for the help of Arlington county shelter nurses |

|Eviction prevention tracker |

|ISC |

|Had presentations on behavioral health, employment center, housing grant, and permanent supportive housing |

|Finding ways to connect clients to these services |

|Some increase in participation from the community |

|Service teams |

|Share information on the meetings |

|Some representatives on bridges, doorways |

|Next Tuesday December 15th next meeting |

|D&E |

|Preparing for 2021 point in time count |

|Training for all CoC members CHERP in HMIS and Training on RRH and PSH referral process through CAPS |

|Details on HUD assessment on CHERP |

|OEA |

|New members Scott and Christina |

|Starting outreach to state legislators |

|Send priorities to legislators: based off what others in the COC want |

|Agency leaders need to contact OEA so they know needs in the community |

|Next meeting Friday DEC 18th |

|Youth homelessness taskforce |

|Finalize priorities for 2021 |

|Nomination for new co-chair |

|In addition Sherri leaving and looking for new co-chair |

|HUD training on youth engagement and outreach |

|Next meeting Jan 11th |

|SOAR Representative Information |

|Presentation on certification for helping people experiencing homelessness get connected to state and federal benefits |

|Presentation and Q&A |

|Complete online training takes ~2 weeks with 20hours |

|there is a certification process |

|VA SSA, there is a person from other offices that will always be watching the application, submitting application that are being tracked and will reach out |

|for information that is missing or innocently filled out |

|Q&A |

|Applying for training |

|Anyone can apply for training |

|Training time total of 20 hours |

|Clients that have a pending SSI application? |

|Can apply through SOAR even if they have a pending application |

|SOAR pin number/ID for clients to track application |

|SSA offers to have a representative ID |

|Don’t need to have the number to send a claim |

|SSDI or early retirement or child claims |

|This can be done through SOAR |

|Will have this information and more contact information distributed to the CoC |

|PIT Committee Recommendations Information |

|Bi-weekly meetings |

|Upcoming PIT count details |

|Jan 27th 10pm-2am |

|Will be a full survey for shelter and unsheltered count |

|10-12 Jan 26 training for the count |

|Street outreach teams to go out |

|Volunteers from: APSAN NHH & Arlington police |

|Finalizing teams for geotag regions |

|Securing gift cards from non-profits |

|10 dollar gift cards |

|DHS giving PPE and gift bags |

|HUD webinar for the public one rep from each nonprofit |

|Co-chair Nomination Discussion/Vote |

|Cicely Whitfield for Housing Committee |

|Taking over for Andrew Schneider |

|Chief program officer at Bridges |

|Alexandra Gavin for Youth Homelessness Taskforce |

|Youth development manager at Bridges |

|Has been on the committee for the past year |

|Discussion: |

|Large amount of Bridges reps in the CoC as co-chairs |

|New faces are stepping up which is important even if many work for Bridges |

|Vote: Both Whitfield and Gavin |

|ASPAN: yes |

|Bridges to Independence: abstain |

|Doorways: yes |

|New Hope Housing: yes |

|Chairs/Vice chairs: yes |

|Arlington County: yes |

|Strategic Plan Discussion |

|(Re)Orientation to Strategic Plan |

|Need to make a new plan and have the revising window of January and February |

|Trying to make changes through the covid lense |

|Looking for gaps and review what the plan has done in the past and what needs to be done for the future |

|Sub-committee 2021 work plan |

|D&E |

|No big changes in the workplan |

|Governance document: |

|Change frequency of the review to as needed |

|Present orderly data to the committee |

|Trend analysis, progress, key populations, racial equity data, access to permanent housing, and recidivism |

|They have this reports of this data but it is not submitted to this committee |

|Research qualitative surveys that can be used |

|Process to analyze data to strengthen program allocation |

|Use data evaluation tools to see how things are needed |

|Q&A |

|Having access to the right data |

|Sharing data across the county |

|Need to do future CoC outcomes would be good to connect with housing and DHS to make sure they are collecting things that are new, for example: racial |

|equity data |

|Want a quarterly report to this committee |

|Housing |

|Increase supply of housing options |

|Gathering immigrant data |

|Domestic violence data and where gaps are |

|Find priority populations |

|Race and equity |

|Track covid 19, updates |

|Presentation on ADUs earlier this year |

|Population we serve ADUs may not be ideal |

|Reviewing lessons learned |

|Arlington mills lesson |

|Working on Westover project will be ready Jan meeting |

|Engage with AOP and educating landlords |

|AHC left but we are hopeful to bring them back as part of the AOP program |

|Intersectionality of child care and trauma |

|Larger process than first though |

|School, project peace, gathering info on mental health |

|Seeing how this goes to housing |

|Workforce and information access to data |

|Hard to track down data |

|Goals so far: |

|Trying to make data collection easier for sub committees to access |

|During committee meetings take time to look at the workplans and see what should be added and how they relate to the strategic plan |

|Consider a Covid lens |

|Be able to talk through things for the January meeting |

|Updating workplans for what has been accomplished |

|Decision about how to move forward for the strategic plan for the last part of 2021 |

|Connecting committees for information and reach out to understand where you are at and how to connect |

|Next Meeting January 4, 2021 |

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