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2006 Homeless Census

Submitted by Rob Richards on Wed, 01/18/2006 - 2:47pm.

On Thursday, January 26th the Housing Authority of Thurston County is staging this years' homeless census. I have taken on coordinating the efforts in downtown Olympia. This information is critical for us to have as the county forms it's 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness. Past censuses have been informative, but not as accurate as we'd have liked due to a lack of coverage.

I currently have a need for volunteers to go out into the community and fill out forms with people. The information collected is only used for the purpose of providing statistics and in the future will serve as a measuring stick to gauge the effectiveness of the ten-year plan. No identifying information will be collected.

If anyone is interested in helping out please call me at 359.3293, or leave me a message on this site.

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Count me in.

Submitted by Rick on Wed, 01/18/2006 - 7:59pm.

Count me in.

Rick--I would like to help, a

Submitted by Maitri Sojourner on Wed, 01/18/2006 - 9:39pm.

Rick--I would like to help, and will call you. Could I do a tie-in to the disposable camera idea, and at least get some feedback from homeless people about how they would feel if someone gave them a camera to take photos? what images they might want to make? what they might want to do with the images? etc.

I want to set people up in te

Submitted by Rob Richards on Thu, 01/19/2006 - 10:19am.

I want to set people up in teams of two. The two of you could cover BRAC if you want. What kind of time frame are you working with?

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