200 More Volunteers Needed to Help Count People Experiencing Homelessness

HHSA employee norma velasco participates in last year’s count.

 Last call. We still need 200 more volunteers.

To date, about 500 County employees have signed up to count people experiencing homelessness. Another 200-plus are needed to reach the number who signed up last year—about 700.

The annual Point-in-Time Count will take place Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020 from 3:30 a.m. to 8 a.m. Volunteers are being asked to arrive at 3:30 to allow time to become familiar with a new mobile app that will be used for counting. Use of the app will be optional. It will provide a tool to assist in a more accurate count.

The deadline to sign up is Monday, Jan. 20 at 5 p.m., and employees are encouraged to register for the count as soon as possible.

This is the seventh year the County has supported the annual count. During the span of several hours, volunteers count and survey the homeless they see in a certain area.

The Board of Supervisors believes this is such a worthy cause that County employees who participate can do so on County time.  

If you are interested in participating, review the FAQs and then obtain approval from your supervisor via the supervisor approval form.

Once you get approval, please sign up here. Once you have signed up, you will receive an email receipt for this event after signing up to volunteer. In the email there will be a link to a training from The Regional Task Force on the Homeless for you to review.

Members of the public can also join the count. If you know family or friends who would like to participate, they can sign up to volunteer.