One way that governments on all levels determine how to help people is through data.
When it comes to people who are homeless, some of that data comes from the annual homeless count in Metro Vancouver.
The Burnaby homeless count is on the night off March 3 and throughout the day on March 4.
Volunteers are badly needed to take part in Burnaby.
“Governments, funders and community agencies rely on data from homeless counts to help make informed policy and program decisions,” said a news release. “As in previous years, the goals of the 2020 Homeless Count are to obtain a reliable estimate on the number of people experiencing homelessness, to obtain a demographic profile of those individuals through the count survey, and to identify long-term data trends of homelessness in the region.”
Over 1,200 volunteers participated in the last Metro Vancouver-wide count in 2017.
If you want to sign up, click here.
