It was 11:26 p.m. on Jan. 24, the first coldest night so far in January. Without gloves, we felt the pain from fingers exposed to the cruel wind as we wrote down his age, gender, race and the place and time we met him on the tally for the count.
Together with two other volunteers, we were out driving and searching for homeless people in downtown Chicago from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. for the 2019 Point-in-Time Count of Homeless Persons, an annual count since 2005 organized by the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) to better understand the homeless population and needs in Chicago during a few hours on one given night in January. The data offers an important direction for federal funding, homeless service, and resource planning.
Read the full article here: https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/every-night-out-in-the-cold-volunteers-count-the-citys-homeless/
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