1. GREATER HARTFORD YOUTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT MEETING
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

2. Agenda Introduction (15 Minutes) Needs Assessment (60 Minutes)
Brief Overview of Ending Homelessness in CT
Youth Dashboard for NE Region
Housing Resources for Youth
Needs Assessment (60 Minutes)
Determining Priorities (20 Minutes)
Wrap Up (15 Minutes)

5. 1. Engagement and Outreach
How confident are you that you are reaching all youth and young adults?
What programs exist dedicated to outreach for youth? I
What engagement/outreach programs exist that include youth and have specific attention paid to youth?
Do mobile services exist in this region that serve youth (such as mobile food, mobile healthcare, etc.)?
Where do unstably housed youth and young adults go for help in your region?

6. 2. Triage (Coordinated Entry)
How does Coordinated Entry for youth and young adults work in your region?
Diversion?
Mediation?
Youth Navigator role?
Follow up with youth?
Assessments?

7. 2. Triage (Emergency Housing)
Youth Specific (under 18)
Young families
Young Adult Specific
Serves young adults/youth but does not have special services dedicated to them
Serves adults but has specific accommodations such as private bathroom, designated areas, etc. for young adults
Other emergency housing options used? (hose homes, churches, relative search, DCF, DMHAS, CSSD, DOC.)
If there are no shelter or emergency beds available, what do you do for the above population?
What are some barriers to using these emergency housing options such as a prioritization, specific demographic capacity, young adult choice – refusals?

8. 2. Triage/Transitional housing
Transitional Housing Usage.
What are youth TH resources in your region?
Criminal Justice?
HHS funded?
DCF?
Do you utilize TH for emergency housing?
How do you prioritize for TH?
How do you prioritize for single young adults?
How do you prioritize for young families?

9. 3. Permanent Housing Options: What does your region have?
Youth under 18 (DCF, family reconnection, other?) i
Young adults (RRH, PSH, other (such as security deposit assistance, PHA preference?)
RRH anything dedicated specifically to youth/young adults/young families? i
What are the barriers to accessing these resources? Possible issues include: prioritization, length of time homeless v. youth status, involvement with CAN, systems v. provider driven i
Affordable housing – what is your supply? What are your barriers to access? (such as need security deposit assistance)

10. 4. Community Needs Question:
How do you think the community could serve homeless youth better, without additional funding? Do you have a specific suggestion, strategy, or idea for improving services?
How would you alter existing models to better suit needs of youth/young adults?
Thinking creatively, if you had flexible funding, what assistance would help youth/young adults stay safe during housing crisis and/or help them get permanently housed in your region?
If you had $200,000 to spend on ending youth homelessness, what would be your housing priorities (outreach/engagement – permanent housing) broken down by percentages?

11. Regional Prioritization Activity
Voting Activity
Please go around the room and place your sticker as a vote for the program you would like to see prioritized for your community.

12. Submit to Mimi Haley and Katie Durand by July 12, 2017.
Written Needs Assessment Submission
All interested stakeholders should collaborate with your YETI & CAN leads to complete a needs assessment for your region.
YETI’s must incorporate community feedback into their needs assessment.
Needs assessment posted on CCEH website, link will be shared with all in attendance and other interested stakeholders
Submit to Mimi Haley and Katie Durand by July 12, 2017.