2025 Point in Time Count Announced
 

On January 27, 2025 beginning at 3pm and continuing until 3pm the following day, the City of Rockford Health & Human Services staff in partnership with the Northern Illinois Homeless Coalition, Park District Police, Rockford Police Department, and Rockford Fire Department will participate in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Annual Point in Time (PIT) Count of the Homeless.  The PIT will cover both sheltered and unsheltered homeless within Boone, Winnebago, and Dekalb Counties. Volunteers will visit drop in centers, emergency rooms, parks, abandoned buildings and other locations where homeless citizens frequent, to complete a survey and collect important data to determine the estimated number of people currently experiencing literal homelessness.  Along with collecting data, agency volunteers will also work to engage the homeless and begin the process of working with them toward permanent housing options.

 

The Point in Time Count is required by HUD and must be completed within the last 10 days of January across the country.  The information from the count is used to inform local and national policy through the Annual Homeless Assessment Report.

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