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MAINE STATEWIDE HOMELESS COUNCIL

Agenda- July 14, 2020 
9:30am – 12:30pm 

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Membership:

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

Office Of
Behavioral Health
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 McCluskey Tracey Hair

9:30-9:45 (15 Minutes) Introductions & Approval of Minutes 

9:45-11:45 (2 Hours) Moving ahead with Corporation for Supportive housing/Creating a Holistic Plan
for Reaching Functional Zero in homelessness for Maine. 
•	Welcome to  a new day for homelessness in Maine-Steph Primm
•	Introduction of CSH/Jamie Blackburn our team leader
•	Successful examples and best practices 
•	Shifting SHC focus to moving this project forward
•	Mapping the project; structure and how key players interact and contribute
•	Using SHC ‘day’ each month for the next six months or more to execute our planning process. 
•	Setting leadership bench/team; setting work teams.
•	COC/SHC integrated partnership—team; goals.

11:45-12:15 (30 Minutes) Maine Human Rights Commission- Amy Sneirson
•	Garnering SHC member support in identifying areas of discrimination affecting those we serve. 

12:15-12:30 (30 Minutes) Updates
•	Any urgent needs for support or help? 
•	Small groups (welcome to continue on after 12:30 as needed)
•	MSN
•	Legislative 
•	Priorities for August-review prior ‘4 priorities’ and re-align around current crisis and planning.

Next meeting---August 11, 2020

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.