Next Wednesday evening begins the January 2011 Point In Time (PIT) count. Additional information about PIT is provided below, as well as a link to the actual program guide.
The Oshkosh effort is in need of volunteers to sign up for 3 hour shifts, including 9pm - 12am; 12am - 3am; and 3am - 6am. Volunteers go out in groups of 3-4 to identify possible homeless folks in our community. If this is something you are interested and able to participate in, please contact Patty with ADVOCAP at 920-922-7760, ext. 3519.
About Point In Time (from the WI PIT Manual):
Point-In-Time (PIT)is a statistically reliable, unduplicated count of people experiencing homelessness during a designated one-night period, two times per year. This count is intended to included persons that are homeless and are living in emergency shelters, transitional housing, domestic violence shelters, or who are unsheltered living on the streets or any other place not mean for human habitation.
A PIT is intended to capture a minimum amount of information on the homeless population in order to create a “snapshot” of what homelessness looks like in a neighborhood, city, or state. The data collected through the Point-in-Time process is reported in the Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) that is provided to the U.S. Congress. Homeless information is also reported to the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, and is utilized to develop the Housing Inventory Chart for the Balance of State CoC.
Access the PIT Guide HERE.
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