Thank you Alabama volunteers

[Photo 1: HUD Senior Management Analyst, Hollis Wormsby of the Birmingham Field Office goes over a homeless survey with Orlando Boston of Priority Veterans during the Annual Point in Time Count for Gadsden Alabama. Boston and Wormsby were visiting sites known to be frequented by homeless Veterans in an effort to more accurately count the homeless population. Boston was also providing survival items for the homeless encountered courtesy of Priority Veterans.]
HUD Senior Management Analyst, Hollis Wormsby of the Birmingham Field Office goes over a homeless survey with Orlando Boston of Priority Veterans during the Annual Point in Time Count for Gadsden Alabama. Boston and Wormsby were visiting sites known to be frequented by homeless Veterans in an effort to more accurately count the homeless population. Boston was also providing survival items for the homeless encountered courtesy of Priority Veterans.
[Photo 2: Jonathan Adams, Instructor at School of Social Work at Jacksonville State University (JSU), and sixteen students from the JSU School of Social Work join Gadsden Community Development Planner Renee Baker for the Annual Point in Time Count in Gadsden. Students from JSU also helped with the Point in Time Count in nearby Anniston.]
Jonathan Adams, Instructor at School of Social Work at Jacksonville State University (JSU), and sixteen students from the JSU School of Social Work join Gadsden Community Development Planner Renee Baker for the Annual Point in Time Count in Gadsden. Students from JSU also helped with the Point in Time Count in nearby Anniston.
[Photo 3: HUD volunteers from the office of Community Planning and Development, from left: Lashelle Spears, Nakisha Paul, Geneva King and Anita Garrett, prepare to participate in Annual Point in Time Count in Birmingham.]
HUD volunteers from the office of Community Planning and Development, from left: Lashelle Spears, Nakisha Paul, Geneva King and Anita Garrett, prepare to participate in Annual Point in Time Count in Birmingham.

Homeless Census conducted in January

The Point-in-Time count is a count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons on a single night in January. HUD requires that Continuums of Care conduct an annual count of homeless persons who are sheltered in emergency shelter, transitional housing, and Safe Havens on a single night. Continuums of Care also must conduct a count of unsheltered homeless persons every other year (odd numbered years). Each count is planned, coordinated, and carried out locally.

The Alabama Point-in-Time count took place January 26 and 27. Thanks to each and every one of you who bundled-up and headed-out to help with the 2016 point-in-time count of your community’s homeless. We very much appreciate your time and energy. The count, of course, is just a snapshot in time, but the data you help collect is crucial helping communities in general and homeless providers in particular to better understand and serve those who have the misfortune of being without a place to call home. Again, thank you.

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Content Archived: January 27, 2017