MAINE STATEWIDE HOMELESS COUNCIL

Agenda- May 12, 2020 
9:30am – 12:30pm 

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Membership:

Stephanie Primm, Chair
MaineHousing
Maine Department of Health & Human Services

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHS)
Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS)

Maine Department of Corrections (DOC)
Maine Bureau of Veterans Services
Region I Reps: Cheryl Harkins Donna Yellen Virginia Dill Region II Reps: Cullen Ryan Donna Kelley Elise Johansen Region III Reps: Josh D’Alessio David McKlusky Tracey Hair

9:30-9:40 (10 Minutes) Introductions & Approval of Minutes 

9:40-10:40 (60 Minutes) COVID 19 Urgent Issues/shelters and service providers.
•	Shelter/Isolation Capacity status
•	Personal Protective Equipment status—better?
•	General Assistance—improvement?
•	Remaining challenges to be addressed—
o	DOC-early release/shelter planning
o	Discharge planning from Crisis/Healthcare providers
o	Regions identify any particular COVID needs/challenges?
•	Statewide Updates—
o	 DHHS
o	MSHA-- Special areas of focus—how can we support?
•	Updates/COVID
•	Rental Assistance
•	The Backlog of Section 8 
•	Getting new Landlords/Property Managers/Developers in the Game
o	DOC/early release/other?
o	Regional updates

10:40-11:00—Legislative updates/needs for support from SHC/Cullen/All

11:00-Noon—Planning for the ‘aftermath’—ALL.
Shelters, future capacity, system strengthening, supportive housing, affordable housing fast tracking. 
Christi Staples/Rich/Cullen/all—discuss and frame a conversation about the future.

Noon-12:30—set priorities for June/July/August—review prior ‘4 priorities’ and re-align 
around current crisis and planning.

Thank you all for your heroic efforts to ‘do the right thing’—we will all get through this together and be better for all of you.